摘要:
An air flow sensor which employs a thermocouple (50) using a continuous film (40) of bismuth 0.92 antimony 0.08 to form junctions with gold, platinum or nickel strips and a resistive strip heater (34) of the same metal.
摘要:
A tunnelling transistor has an injector layer (32) separated from a channel (28) by a tunnelling barrier (30) of narrow band gap semiconductor material. When biased to threshold with a first voltage, the injector layer injects charge carriers through the tunnelling barrier and into the channel by quantum-mechanical tunnelling. Two spaced-apart contact regions (24,26) disposed on each side of the channel are provided to establish a current which flows between the contact regions through the channel when the channel resistance is lowered by the injection of charge carriers across the tunnelling barrier. By biasing the injector layer with a second voltage, the tunnelling process is reversed, causing charge carriers to tunnel from the channel back through the tunnelling barrier and into the injector layer. The channel current flowing between contact regions is turned off when channel resistance is sufficiently increased. Since tunnelling is inherently a fast process, the transistor has an ultra-fast switching time.
摘要:
A position sensor (10) is made by assembling a permanent magnet (14), a soft magnetic layer (16) on the magnet (14), a magnetoresistive sensor element (18) on the soft magnetic layer (16), and a toothed ferritic member (20) mounted for movement past the sensor element (18). The permanent magnet (14) is surface-treated to form, in situ, the soft magnetic layer (16) comprising a thin layer of high-permeability, low-coercivity material. An Nd-Fe-B alloy magnet (14) is surface-treated by a laser or electron beam to melt a thin layer (16) which is then cooled to re-solidify into a soft magnetic material. Rapid cooling achieves an amorphous surface layer having the desired properties. Slow cooling results in the formation of alpha-iron grains which enhance the soft magnetic properties. Iron formation is aided by reacting the molten layer with an oxidizing atmosphere. Iron alloying by adding iron powder to the molten layer is also feasible.
摘要:
A magnetoresistive sensor that includes a thin film of nominally undoped monocrystalline indium arsenide. An indium arsenide film is described that appears to have a naturally occurring accumulation layer adjacent its outer surface. With film thicknesses below 5 micrometres, preferably below 3 micrometres, the presence of the accumulation layer has a very noticeable effect. A method for making the sensor is also described. The unexpected improvement provides a significant apparent increase in mobility and conductivity of the indium arsenide, and an actual increase in magnetic sensitivity and temperature insensitivity.
摘要:
A magnetoresistive sensor that includes a thin film of nominally undoped monocrystalline indium arsenide. An indium arsenide film is described that appears to have a naturally occurring accumulation layer adjacent its outer surface. With film thicknesses below 5 micrometres, preferably below 3 micrometres, the presence of the accumulation layer has a very noticeable effect. A method for making the sensor is also described. The unexpected improvement provides a significant apparent increase in mobility and conductivity of the indium arsenide, and an actual increase in magnetic sensitivity and temperature insensitivity.
摘要:
An air flow sensor which employs a thermocouple (50) using a continuous film (40) of bismuth 0.92 antimony 0.08 to form junctions with gold, platinum or nickel strips and a resistive strip heater (34) of the same metal.