In labs around the world, scientists chase forces too faint to see and too small to touch. They hunt for tiny magnetic ...

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in ...

Magnetic sensors quietly underpin everything from smartphone compasses to the stability systems that keep electric vehicles ...

Physicists have unveiled a breakthrough in quantum sensing by demonstrating a 2D material as a versatile platform for next-generation nanoscale vectorial magnetometry. A team of physicists at the ...

Princeton researchers have developed a diamond-based quantum sensor that can measure magnetic phenomena at the nanometre scale.

Unlike conventional Hall sensors that only respond to the field component perpendicular to the device surface, the Type CSA-1 single-axis and the Type 2SA-1 two-axis sensors respond to a magnetic ...

Trapped electrons traveling in circular loops at extreme speeds inside graphene quantum dots are highly sensitive to external magnetic fields and could be used as novel magnetic field sensors with ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency's Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth's poles during ...

In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...