Next generation electronic devices face major technical challenges, which will affect both power management performance and efficiency. Increasingly, conversion and power management applications are ...

The types of magnetic sensors that are currently available. How the magnetic sensors work. Applications for the different magnetic sensors. Position sensors enable a variety of functions and controls ...

RVmagnetics' MicroWire technology offers the smallest passive sensor, facilitating deep, internal sensing for advanced ...

One of the primary ways that gyroscopic motion can be applied is in the monitoring and/or maintaining of the orientation of an object. A broad array of engineering applications are based on gyroscopic ...

This application note presents some of the fundamental information about Hall-Effect sensors. It also presents the basics of magnetics, and the added value of programmable sensors and sensor interface ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. In the seemingly endless quest for higher motor performance and improved system cost efficiencies, motor manufacturers ...

Magnetic sensors detect moving ferrous metal. The simplest magnetic sensor consists of a wire coiled around a permanent magnet. A ferrous object approaching the sensor changes magnetic flux through ...

This release is available in German. Sensors accurately register the slightest temperature fluctuations, the tiniest changes to a magnetic field, or barely perceptible air currents. In some cases, ...

The new magnetic sensor is inexpensive to make, works on minimal power and is 20 times more sensitive than many traditional sensors. A team of Brown University physicists has developed a new type of ...