[time-nuts] Mini Magnetic Sensor May Have Biomedical, Security Applications
Brooke Clarke
brooke at pacific.net
Sat Nov 10 19:23:30 UTC 2007
Hi:
NIST has come up with a new magnetic sensor that's in the 3 to 40 fT range.
It's based on a Rb cell's sensivity to magnetic fields. It's based on the work
done for the Chip-Scale Atomic Clock. See:
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2007_1108.htm#magnetometer
http://patapsco.nist.gov/ImageGallery/details.cfm?imageid=45 <- image of sensor
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/CSMagnetometer.htm <- pressrelease
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/miniclock.htm
Is this something that could be done using the Rb cell from a frequency standard?
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