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Harnessing Spin-Texture Dynamics for Low-Noise, High-Sensitivity Magnetic Sensors
Kang Wang1, Teng Xu1, Meng Shi1
1Chinese Academy of Sciences, HFIPS, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics at Extreme Conditions, Anhui, Hefei, China.
Physical Review Letters
|July 31, 2026
Summary
Researchers engineered spin-texture dynamics to overcome a fundamental limit in magnetic sensors. This breakthrough achieved lower noise and higher sensitivity, paving the way for advanced sensing technologies.
Area of Science:
- Materials Science
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Nanotechnology
Background:
- Low-noise, high-sensitivity magnetic sensors are crucial for automotive, biomedical, and microscopy applications.
- A fundamental constraint limits sensor performance, where noise and sensitivity increase together.
Purpose of the Study:
- To overcome the inherent performance limitations of magnetic sensors.
- To demonstrate a novel approach for enhancing sensor sensitivity while reducing noise.
Main Methods:
- Engineering spin-texture dynamics in synthetic ferrimagnets.
- Developing anomalous-Hall sensors utilizing accelerated spin-texture dynamics.
Main Results:
- Achieved inverse relationship between sensor noise and spin-texture dynamics, maintaining high sensitivity.
- Constructed low-noise, high-sensitivity anomalous-Hall sensors.
- Demonstrated field detectability of 15.7 nT/√Hz at 1 Hz, a significant improvement over existing sensors.
Conclusions:
- Active control of spin textures offers a general pathway to ultrasensitive, low-noise magnetic sensing.
- The developed sensors show nearly an order of magnitude improvement compared to ferromagnetic sensors.
- This work enables next-generation magnetic sensing platforms with unprecedented performance.
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