Thin-Film-Based SAW Magnetic Field Sensors

Autor: Jana Marie Meyer, Viktor Schell, Jingxiang Su, Simon Fichtner, Erdem Yarar, Florian Niekiel, Thorsten Giese, Anne Kittmann, Lars Thormählen, Vadim Lebedev, Stefan Moench, Agnė Žukauskaitė, Eckhard Quandt, Fabian Lofink
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 24, p 8166 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s21248166
Popis: In this work, the first surface acoustic-wave-based magnetic field sensor using thin-film AlScN as piezoelectric material deposited on a silicon substrate is presented. The fabrication is based on standard semiconductor technology. The acoustically active area consists of an AlScN layer that can be excited with interdigital transducers, a smoothing SiO2 layer, and a magnetostrictive FeCoSiB film. The detection limit of this sensor is 2.4 nT/Hz at 10 Hz and 72 pT/Hz at 10 kHz at an input power of 20 dBm. The dynamic range was found to span from about ±1.7 mT to the corresponding limit of detection, leading to an interval of about 8 orders of magnitude. Fabrication, achieved sensitivity, and noise floor of the sensors are presented.
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