ForLab MagSens
A project at Bielefeld University and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
In the future, magnetic sensors will play an increasingly important role in numerous applications, such as autonomous driving or automation technology. This is because they make it possible to measure important parameters without contact or wear. Scientists at Bielefeld University and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz want to develop integrable magnetic sensors that provide a linear and hysteresis-free response to all three components of the external magnetic field vector. Their aim is also to significantly shorten the development time of such sensors.
The Bielefeld and Mainz Microelectronics Research Laboratory for Magnetic Field Sensors therefore aims to combine theoretical modelling and state-of-the-art thin-film technologies with accuracies significantly better than an atomic layer with complex methods for characterising the sensor characteristic fields. The decisive characteristic values of new sensors are to be measured in-situ during the film production process.
Using modern concepts of materials and thin-film research, such as integrated computational materials engineering and machine learning, the researchers led by Prof. Dr Günter Reiss from the Center for Spinelectronic Materials and Devices at the Faculty of Physics at Bielefeld University and Professors Dr Mathias Kläui and Dr Gerhard Jakob from the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz want to develop new types of robust and customised magnetic sensors for automation/Industry 4.0 and other fields of application. One focus is the upscaling of research results to industry-compatible coating systems.
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