DocumentCode
1372760
Title
Enhancing the sensitivity of Hall microsensor by minority carrier injection
Author
Roumenin, Ch.S. ; Nikolov, D. ; Ivanov, A.
Author_Institution
Inst. of Control & Syst. Res., Bulgarian Acad. of Sci., Sofia, Bulgaria
Volume
36
Issue
16
fYear
2000
fDate
8/3/2000 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1375
Lastpage
1376
Abstract
A new parallel-field silicon Hall microsensor is proposed and investigated experimentally. Its magnetosensitivity is dramatically improved (without reducing the Hall coefficient) by electrically controlling the curvilinear majority current trajectory using minority carrier injection
Keywords
Hall effect transducers; elemental semiconductors; magnetic sensors; microsensors; minority carriers; silicon; Si; minority carrier injection; parallel field device; sensitivity; silicon Hall microsensor;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20001017
Filename
862153
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