Ceramic-Chromium Hall Sensors for Environments with High Temperatures and Neutron Radiation

Autor: Slavomir Entler, Zbynek Soban, Ivan Duran, Karel Kovarik, Karel Vyborny, Josef Sebek, Stana Tazlaru, Jan Strelecek, Petr Sladek
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 3, p 721 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s21030721
Popis: Ceramic-chromium Hall sensors represent a temperature and radiation resistant alternative to Hall sensors based on semiconductors. Demand for these sensors is presently motivated by the ITER and DEMO nuclear fusion projects. The developed ceramic-chromium Hall sensors were tested up to a temperature of 550 °C and a magnetic field of 14 T. The magnitude of the sensitivity of the tested sensor was 6.2 mV/A/T at 20 °C and 4.6 mV/A/T at 500 °C. The sensitivity was observed to be weakly dependent on a temperature above 240 °C with an average temperature coefficient of 0.014%/°C and independent of the magnetic field with a relative average deviation below the measurement accuracy of 0.086%. A simulation of a neutron-induced transmutation was performed to assess changes in the composition of the chromium. After 5.2 operational years of the DEMO fusion reactor, the transmuted fraction of the chromium sensitive layer was found to be 0.27% at the most exposed sensor location behind the divertor cassette with a neutron fluence of 6.08 × 1025 n/m2. The ceramic-chromium Hall sensors show the potential to be suitable magnetic sensors for environments with high temperatures and strong neutron radiation.
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