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Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Sensors based on magnetic effects

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 717-3732/01
Abbreviation SBMJ
Course title Sensors based on magnetic effects
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Ondřej Životský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Outline is focused into the following areas:

1. Hall effect sensors
2. Senzors based on magneto-resistance principle (AMR, GMR, etc.)
3. Fluxgate sensors
4. NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance)
5. SQUID
6. Giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) and asymmetric gigant magnetoimpedance (AGMI)
7. Magneto-optical senzors based on the Faraday and Kerr effects
8. Magneto-diodes aand magneto-transistors
9. Modern applications of magnetic sensors

Literature

R. Boll and K.J. Overshott, Magnetic Sensors, Sensors Vol. 2, VCH Veiden, Germany, 1989.
P. Ripka, Magnetic Sensors and Magnetometers, Artech, Boston, 2001.

Advised literature

P. Ripka, Sensors based on bulk soft magnetic materials: advances and challenges, JMMM 320 (2008), 2466-2473.
P. Ripka P, M. Janošek, Advances in Magnetic Field Sensors, IEEE Sens. J. 10 (2010), 1108-1116.
A. Edelstein, Advances in magnetometry, J. Phys.: Condense Matter 19 (2007), 165217.