The novel contactless current sensors consist of an integrated CMOS Hall effect sensor covered by a thin, ferromagnetic layer structured on its surface. The Integrated Magnetic Concentrator (IMC) layer acts as a magnetic flux concentrator, providing a high magnetic gain which increases the sensor’s signal-to-noise ratio. The sensor is particularly appropriate for DC and AC current measurement. ...

Eddy currents (also called Foucault currents[1]) are loops of electrical current induced within conductors by a changing magnetic field in the conductor, due to Faraday’s law of induction. Eddy currents flow in closed loops within conductors, in planes perpendicular to the magnetic field. They can be induced within nearby stationary conductors by a time-varying magnetic field created by anAC el...

The quantum Hall effect is usually observed when a two-dimensional electron gas is subjected to an external magnetic field, so that their quantum states form Landau levels. In this work we predict that a new phenomenon, the quantum anomalous Hall effect, can be realized in Hg{1-y}Mn{y}Te quantum wells, without an external magnetic field and the associated Landau levels. This effect arises purel...

The quantum Hall effect is usually observed when the two-dimensional electron gas is subjected to an external magnetic field, so that their quantum states form Landau levels. In this work we predict that a new phenomenon, the quantum anomalous Hall effect, can be realized in Hg1−yMnyTe quantum wells, without the external magnetic field and the associated Landau levels. This effect arises purely...

Steady hydromagnetic Couette flow of class-II of a viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting fluid through a porous medium in a rotating system taking Hall current into account is investigated. Heat transfer characteristics of the fluid flow are considered taking viscous and Joule dissipations into account. It is noticed that there exists flow separation at the moving plate in the sec...

The Hall effect in a thin bismuth strip was investigated. The Hall voltage was found to be a linear function of the applied current, in agreement with theoretical predictions. However, the Hall voltage was a highly nonlinear function of the magnetic field, in contrast to the linear form predicted by the semiclassical theory. At high magnetic fields, where electron scattering is less important a...

A numerical study is made of current distribution in small Hall bars with disorder. It is observed , in particular, that in the Hall-plateau regime the Hall current tends to concentrate near the sample edges while it diminishes on average in the sample interior as a consequence of localization. Also reported is another numerical experiment on a related, but rather independent topic, the breakdo...