Sensor noise performance and analogue system design (B01)

• Subject Area: Electronic Semiconductors, Components and Circuits, Integrated Systems, Sensor Technology, Theoretical Electrical Engineering
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 286471992

The project focusses on low-noise analogue signal processing and signal conditioning for maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio for the various magnetic field sensors that are being researched in the CRC. For reaching the lowest possible limit of detection, thorough theoretical noise analyses and modelling of the entire sensor front-ends as well as optimal low-noise system hardware conception and design is required. Based on theoretical analyses and the assembling and verification of discrete hybrid electronic prototypes, the project further focusses on the development of custom monolithically integrated circuits to pave the way from single-sensor systems to multi-sensor systems, i.e. sensor arrays.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1261: Magnetoelectric Sensors: From Composite Materials to Biomagnetic Diagnostics
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Project Heads: Professor Dr.-Ing. Andreas Bahr, from 7/2020 until 6/2024; Professor Dr.-Ing. Michael Höft; Professor Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Knöchel, until 6/2020