• 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