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Nanomechanical resonators (NMRs) offer a promising alternative to traditional thermal-based radiation detectors due to their immunity to electrical noise. In recent years, these sensors have reached the previously unattained theoretical…

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Planar Hall magnetoresistive sensors (PHMR) are promising candidates for various magnetic sensing applications due to their high sensitivity, low power consumption, and compatibility with integrated circuit technology. However, their…

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The tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect is one of the representative phenomena in spintronics. Ferromagnets, which have a net spin polarization, have been utilized for the TMR effect. Recently, by contrast, the TMR effect with…

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A Hall magnetometer with variable sensitivity is constructed to measure the magnetic properties of magnetic nanoparticles manufactured by different methods. This novel magnetometer can also be used to measure bulk materials and samples in…

We reported a systematic study of spin-orbit torque biased magnetic sensors based on NiFe/Pt bilayers through both macro-spin modeling and experiments. The simulation results show that it is possible to achieve a linear sensor with a…

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We propose a new approach to measuring persistent currents in normal metal rings. By integrating micron-scale metal rings into sensitive micromechanical cantilevers and using the cantilevers as torque magnetometers, it should be possible to…

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Silicon Carbide is renowned for its exceptional thermal stability, making it a crucial material for high-temperature power devices in extreme environments. While optically detected magnetic resonance in SiC has been widely studied for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-10 F. Sgrignuoli , I. Viti , Z. G. Yu , E. Allridge , P. Lenahan , S. Goswami , R. Ghandi , M. Aghayan , D. M. Shaddock

Temperature dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) was calculated in range of the quantum-ballistic model in the magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with embedded nanoparticles (NPs). The electron tunnel transport through NP was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Arthur Useinov , Chih-Huang Lai

Magneto-mechanical resonators (MMRs) represent a recently proposed type of passive sensor that enables the estimation of its pose as well as sensing other parameters in its environment. The working principle of MMRs entails an excitation of…

We present a method of optical magnetometry with parts-per-billion resolution that is able to detect biomagnetic signals generated from the human brain and heart in Earth's ambient environment. Our magnetically silent sensors measure the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 M. E. Limes , E. L. Foley , T. W. Kornack , S. Caliga , S. McBride , A. Braun , W. Lee , V. G. Lucivero , M. V. Romalis

We propose a novel device concept using spin-orbit-torques to realize a magnetic field sensor, where we eliminate the sensor offset using a differential measurement concept. We derive a simple analytical formulation for the sensor signal…

We present a new method for torque magnetometry by using a commercially available membrane-type surface-stress sensor (MSS). This sensor has a silicon membrane supported by four beams in which piezoresistive paths are integrated. Although…

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There is a storied scientific history in the role of mechanical instruments for the measurement of fundamental physical interactions. Among these include the detection of magnetic torques via a displacement of a compliant mechanical sensor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Joseph E. Losby , Vincent T. K. Sauer , Mark R. Freeman

We have studied the magnetoresistance (TMR) of tunnel junctions with electrodes of La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 and we show how the variation of the conductance and TMR with the bias voltage can be exploited to obtain a precise information on the spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 M. Bowen , A. Barthélémy , M. Bibes , E. Jacquet , J. -P. Contour , A. Fert , F. Ciccacci , L. Dùo , R. Bertacco

Sensitive magnetometers have been applied in a wide range of research fields, including geophysical exploration, bio-magnetic field detection, ultralow-field nuclear magnetic resonance, etc. Commonly, magnetometers are directly placed at…

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key components of spintronic devices, such as magnetic random-access memories. Normally, MTJs consist of two ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes separated by an insulating barrier layer. Their key functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-06 Kartik Samanta , Yuan-Yuan Jiang , Tula R. Paudel , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We report detection of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) using an anisotropic magnetoresistive (AMR) sensor. A ``remote-detection'' arrangement was used, in which protons in flowing water were pre-polarized in the field of a superconducting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Verpillat , M. P. Ledbetter , D. Budker , S. Xu , D. Michalak , C. Hilty , S. Antonijevic , A. Pines , L. -S. Bouchard

Recently, it has been shown that magnetic tunnel junctions with thin MgO tunnel barriers exhibit extraordinarily high tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) values at room temperature1, 2. However, the physics of spin dependent tunneling through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Hyunsoo Yang , See-Hun Yang , Stuart Parkin

Atomic magnetometers are highly sensitive detectors of magnetic fields that monitor the evolution of the macroscopic magnetic moment of atomic vapors, and opening new applications in biological, physical, and chemical science. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Min Jiang , Wenjie Xu , Qing Li , Ze Wu , Dieter Suter , Xinhua Peng

The availability of compact, low-cost magnetic resonance imaging instruments would further broaden the substantial impact of this technology. We report highly sensitive detection of magnetic resonance using low-stress silicon nitride…