摘要:
An apparatus includes a circuit and a field line. The circuit includes a magnetic tunnel junction including a storage layer and a sense layer. The field line is configured to generate a magnetic field based on an input signal, where the magnetic tunnel junction is configured such that a magnetization direction of the sense layer and a resistance of the magnetic tunnel junction vary based on the magnetic field. The circuit is configured to amplify the input signal to generate an output signal that varies in response to the resistance of the magnetic tunnel junction.
摘要:
A driving circuit includes a power supply, an input capacitor, a Hall sensor, a first amplifier, a second amplifier, a full-bridge driver circuit, and a first operational amplifier. The input capacitor is coupled to the power supply. The input end of the first amplifier and the second amplifier is coupled to the output end of the Hall sensor. The control end of the full-bridge driver circuit is coupled to the output end of the first amplifier and the output end of the second amplifier. The first operational amplifier includes a first input end for receiving a first reference voltage and a second input end coupled to the first output end of the full-bridge driver circuit.
摘要:
A system and method for employing variable magnetic flux bias in an amplifier. The amplifier system comprises an output transformer and a magnetic sensor configured to sense a first magnetic flux of the output transformer. The magnetic sensor generates a flux signal responsive to the first magnetic flux. Control circuitry is configured to receive the flux signal and to generate a control signal responsive to the flux signal. A winding is configured to receive the control signal and to induce a second magnetic flux within the output transformer responsive to the control signal, the second magnetic flux having opposite polarity to the first magnetic flux. The second magnetic flux may maintain a non-zero quiescent magnetic bias level within the output transformer, or may substantially cancel or null the DC and low-frequency subsonic components of the first magnetic flux.
摘要:
Transceiver components for a transmission line are described. A driver includes a first network of thin-film elements exhibiting giant magnetoresistance, and a first input conductor inductively coupled to at least one of the thin-film elements in the first network. At least one dimension of each thin-film element in the first network is configured with reference to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line. A receiver includes a second network of thin-film elements exhibiting giant magnetoresistance, and a second input conductor inductively coupled to at least one of the thin-film elements in the second network. A termination impedance in series with the second input conductor has a value relating to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line.
摘要:
A magnetoresistance effect device of the invention includes: a substrate; and a multilayer structure formed on the substrate. The multilayer structure includes a hard magnetic film, a soft magnetic film, and a non-magnetic metal film for separating the hard magnetic film from the soft magnetic film. The magnetization curve of the hard magnetic film has a good square feature, and the direction of a magnetization easy axis of the hard magnetic film substantially agrees to the direction of a magnetic field to be detected.
摘要:
A differential amplifier circuit suitable for amplifying a faint signal, such as the output of a magnetic sensor including a Hall element. The differential amplifier circuit includes switching units which are provided at the input and output terminals of a differential amplifier to switch the polarity of the input and output signals, and low pass filters which are provided at the output terminals to remove the switching frequency component from the output signal, thus working as an ideal amplifier with no offset voltage. Furthermore, by alternating the polarity of driving current of the Hall element for inverting the polarity of the input signal of the differential amplifier, an error voltage of the Hall element caused by location error of the output electrodes and the voltage drop across them can be eliminated at the same time.
摘要:
An integrated circuit includes an epitaxial layer. In a near central region thereof is formed a symmetrical array of four equal sized Hall cells that are connected in parallel to form one Hall element. A moat surrounds the Hall element consisting of two concentric isolation walls separated by a band of opposite conductivity epitaxial material. The output of the Hall element is connected to the input of an adjacent differential amplifier that has two extraordinarily large amplifying transistors with emitter areas each equal to about a half of a Hall area, for achieving much better control over the relative dimensions of these emitters and thus over the amplifier offset voltage from chip to chip. The emitter resistors are likewise made very wide and both pairs of components are physically arranged to have balanced thermal coupling to the Hall element for further enhancing control of offset voltage.
摘要:
An isolation amplifier circuit is described that utilizes a magnetic field in combination with a Hall effect device to isolate input signals and output signals. The input signal is applied to a conducting coil that produces a magnetic field in a Hall effect material through which current is flowing. Because of the Hall effect, terminals on the sides of the Hall effect material can provide a voltage difference. This voltage difference is amplified and applied to a second conducting coil. The second conducting coil is adapted to provide a magnetic field in the opposite direction from the magnetic field produced by the input signal. When the magnetic fields are identical, no difference in current flowing through the two terminals will be present. The output signal of the difference amplifier circuit will be a function of the input signal. According to a second embodiment, apparatus is included for cancelling ambient magnetic fields. A second isolation amplifier circuit is arranged to have a spatial orientation rotated 180.degree. from a first isolation amplifier. With this configuration, ambient magnetic fields will have cancelling effects. The Hall effect device can be implemented in a PNP transistor with a split collector. The isolation amplifier can be fabricated with monolithic technology.
摘要:
A Hall-effect element is connected at one Hall current terminal to ground and at the other Hall current terminal to a DC voltage application circuit. Two Hall voltage terminals of the Hall-effect element are coupled with the base and the emitter of a first transistor, respectively. A second transistor is connected in series to the first transistor in such a way that the collector of the second transistor is fed back in current mode to the emitter of the first transistor.
摘要:
A wide band linear amplifier comprising first and second heavily damped Josephson devices and associated superconducting circuitry. Each Josephson device has a parallel path with a load resistor connected thereto. The parallel path connected to the first Josephson device is positioned to operate as a control current path for the second Josephson device. Both Josephson devices are operated on linear portions of their respective gain curves. The output current through the second load resistance is a linear amplification of the input current; the latter being applied as control current to the first Josephson device.