scholarly journals Comparison of Sensitivity and Low-Frequency Noise Contributions in Giant-Magnetoresistive and Tunneling-Magnetoresistive Spin-Valve Sensors with a Vortex-State Free Layer

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Weitensfelder ◽  
Hubert Brueckl ◽  
Armin Satz ◽  
Klemens Pruegl ◽  
Juergen Zimmer ◽  
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Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (13) ◽  
pp. 1013
Author(s):  
Herbert Weitensfelder ◽  
Hubert Brueckl ◽  
Armin Satz ◽  
Dieter Suess

The spin valve principle is the most prominent sensor design among giant- (GMR) and tunneling (TMR) magnetoresistive sensors. A new sensor concept with a disk shaped free layer enables the formation of a flux-closed vortex magnetization state if a certain relation of thickness to diameter is given. The low frequency noise of current-in-plane GMR sensing elements with different free layer thicknesses at different external field strengths has been measured. The measurements of the 1/f noise in external fields enabled a separation of magnetic and electric noise contributions. It has been shown that while the sensitivity is increasing with a decreasing element thickness, the pink noise contribution is increasing too. Still the detection limit at low frequencies is better in thinner free layer elements due to the higher sensitivity.


Vestnik MEI ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 120-127
Author(s):  
Mikhail D. Vorobyev ◽  
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Dmitriy N. Yudaev ◽  
Andrey Yu. Zorin ◽  
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...  

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles K. Birdsall ◽  
J. P. Varboncoeur ◽  
P. J. Christensen

2021 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 108203
Author(s):  
Lígia T. Silva ◽  
Alda Magalhães ◽  
José Ferreira Silva ◽  
Fernando Fonseca

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