Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080297292 | Radio Frequency Device with Magnetic Element, Method for Making Such a Magnetic Element - A radiofrequency device may include an electrically conducting element associated with at least one continuous magnetic element. The first continuous magnetic element may include a substrate coated with a magnetic film having a granular structure, with grains that are inclined to the normal to the substrate, or a columnar texture inclined to the normal of the substrate. | 12-04-2008 |
20080316647 | Miniature Magnetic Core, Sensor Comprising Same and Method for Manufacturing Same - A miniature magnetic core includes at least one bar magnet having, in the demagnetized state, a plurality of magnetic domains separated by magnetic walls, the bar magnet having permanent discontinuities placed at least approximately at the probable locations of at least some of these magnetic walls in the absence of these permanent discontinuities. A miniature sensor includes a miniature core that cooperates with at least one excitation coil and at least one detection coil. A method for manufacturing the magnetic core includes identifying the probable location of the magnetic walls, depositing at least a thin film of magnetic material on a support in order to form the core and producing, in said core, discontinuities approximately at the identified locations of the walls. | 12-25-2008 |
20090140384 | PROCESS FOR OBTAINING A THIN, INSULATING, SOFT MAGNETIC FILM OF HIGH MAGNETIZATION, CORRESPONDING FILM AND CORRESPONDING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A thin soft magnetic film combines a high magnetization with an insulating character. The film is formed by nitriding Fe-rich ferromagnetic nanograins immersed in an amorphous substrate. A selective oxidation of the amorphous substrate is then performed. The result is a thin, insulating, soft magnetic film of high magnetization. Many types of integrated circuits can be made which include a component using a membrane incorporating the above-mentioned thin film. | 06-04-2009 |
20090215207 | Alignment method of two substrates by microcoils - Substrates to be aligned comprise microcoils arranged at the level of their facing surfaces. In an alignment phase, power is supplied to at least the microcoils of the first substrate, whereas the inductance of the microcoils of the second substrate is measured. The microcoils are preferably flat microcoils in the form of a spiral or a serpentine. | 08-27-2009 |
20090243772 | BISTABLE MAGNETIC NANOSWITCH - A nanoswitch device comprising:
| 10-01-2009 |
20090289747 | MAGNETIC NANO-RESONATOR - A nano-resonator device comprising at least one fixed element and at least one mobile element with respect to the fixed element, first electromagnetic means, integrated or fixed on the fixed element, and second electromagnetic means, integrated or fixed on the mobile element, to generate an oscillating movement of the mobile element. | 11-26-2009 |
20100066472 | OPTIMISED SOLENOID WINDING - The inductive micro-device comprises a rectilinear solenoid winding comprising a plurality of disjointed rectangular turns each having predetermined dimensions. At least one of the dimensions of the turns is variable and is determined individually for each turn according to the position of the turn along the winding and to predetermined magnetic characteristics of the winding, in particular a homogeneous magnetic field and/or an optimum quality factor. Said variable dimension of the turns is chosen from the width, length, thickness, height of turn and the value of the gap between two adjacent turns. | 03-18-2010 |
20100151797 | RADIO-FREQUENCY DEVICE COMPRISING A THIN FILM WITH HIGH PERMITTIVITY AND PERMEABILITY - A radio-frequency device comprises magneto-dielectric elements. At least one of these elements comprises a composite thin film ( | 06-17-2010 |
20110012791 | LEFT HANDED BODY, WAVE GUIDE DEVICE AND ANTENNA USING THIS BODY, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THIS BODY - This left-handed substance comprises an array of conductive wires positioned relative to one another in such a way as to present a negative permittivity relative to the electromagnetic waves which have an electrical field parallel to the biggest dimension of these wires and are propagated at a frequency below the electrical plasma frequency of the substance, each wire being made out of a conductive magnetic material having negative permeability for a range of frequencies of the electromagnetic waves below the electrical plasma frequency of the substance and when there is no external artificial static magnetic field. Each wire comprises at least one strip, made out of a conductive magnetic material that extends along the greatest dimension of the wire in a plane of the strip and has a thickness at least twice as small as the skin thickness of the conductive magnetic material. | 01-20-2011 |
20110116194 | VARIABLE-RESPONSE MAGNETIC RADIOFREQUENCY DEVICE - This variable-response magnetic radiofrequency device integrated into a substrate comprises:
| 05-19-2011 |
20110266642 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION AND MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION THUS OBTAINED - According to this method for producing a magnetic tunnel junction, a film of a dielectric material capable of acting as a tunnel barrier is deposited between two nanocrystalline or amorphous magnetic films. The dielectric material constituting the tunnel barrier consists of an at least partially crystalline perovskite, and said material is deposited by ion beam sputtering in a vacuum chamber. | 11-03-2011 |
20130127455 | MAGNETIC FIELD VECTOR SENSOR - A magnetic field vector sensor includes a substrate parallel to a plane, a support mobile relative to it and rotatable about a vertical rotation axis perpendicular to it, a magnetic field source generating a field having a moment in a non-perpendicular direction, the source being fixed to the support with no degree-of-freedom to exert torque on the support when a field to be measured is present, the field being non-collinear with the moment, a transducer to convert torque exerted on the support into a field amplitude of a component of the field along a measurement axis in the plane, wherein the source comprises a magnetostrictive permanent magnet for generating the field having a moment whose direction varies with stress on the magnet, and wherein the sensor further comprises a controllable device to reversibly modify the moment direction, and a stress generator to vary stress and hence moment direction. | 05-23-2013 |
20130141091 | MAGNETIC FIELD SENSOR - A magnetic field sensor has a magnetoresistive rod having a stack of stacked layers that include a pinned layer having a fixed magnetization direction almost perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, a free layer comprising a magnetostrictive material having a coefficient of magnetostriction greater than 20 ppm to 25° C. and a longitudinal axis of easiest magnetization, the magnetization changing when the free layer is exposed to a magnetic field, a non-magnetic spacer layer interposed between the free and pinned layers to form a tunnel junction or spin valve, and a stress-generating layer for exerting uniaxial stress essentially such that a product of stress and magnetostriction coefficient is greater than 500 ppm·MPa at 25° C. The rod's length is at least ten times its greatest width. | 06-06-2013 |
20130285858 | ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTOR, AND ANTENNA - An artificial magnetic conductor having a surface impedance greater than 100 Ω, includes a ground plane, and a frequency-selective surface that is transparent for certain wavelengths and reflective for a range of wavelengths. The frequency-selective surface includes an array of conductive resonant elements arranged alongside one another in at least two different directions parallel to the ground plane. Each of these conductive resonant elements includes a sub-layer of ferromagnetic material having a relative permeability greater than 10 at a frequency of 2 GHz and having a thickness less than the skin thickness of the ferromagnetic material. | 10-31-2013 |
20140043199 | PLANAR ANTENNA HAVING A WIDENED BANDWIDTH - A planar antenna with widened bandwidth comprises at least one first conducting element disposed above an earth plane and separated from the latter, and means for exciting said at least first conducting element, configured to excite two distinct orthogonal resonant modes, wherein said at least first conducting element is embodied by a substrate comprising at least one thin layer of an anisotropic material with relative permeability of greater than 10 for 2 GHz. The antenna applies notably to mobile communications terminals. | 02-13-2014 |