| abstract |
A semiconductor process and apparatus provide a high-performance magnetic field sensor from two differential sensor configurations (201, 211) which require only two distinct pinning axes (206, 216), where each differential sensor (e.g., 201) is formed from a Wheatstone bridge structure with four unshielded MTJ sensors (202-205), each of which includes a magnetic field pulse generator (e.g., 414) for selectively applying a field pulse to stabilize or restore the easy axis magnetization of the sense layers (e.g., 411) to eliminate micromagnetic domain switches during measurements of small magnetic fields. |