CMOS Wide-Bandwidth Magnetic Sensors for Contactless Current Measurements
H Jiang (TU Delft - Electronic Instrumentation)
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Abstract
This Ph.D. dissertation describes the theory and realization of wide-bandwidth magnetic sensors for current measurements which breach the conventional offset and noise constraints in CMOS processes. These are achieved by several circuit-level and system-level innovations, including the use of three orthogonal ripple reduction loops (RRLs) in spinning-current Hall sensors, a multipath
architecture with double Hall sensors, and a hybrid magnetic sensor system combining Hall sensors and pick-up coils. The prototypes with these techniques have advanced the bandwidth of state-of-the-art CMOS magnetic sensors by more than two orders of magnitude.