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Xiaoguang Yang, Bo Zhang, Youhua Wang, Zhigang Zhao, and Weili Yan
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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 111, 07E722 (2012)
I. INTRODUCTION
The main methods used to measure electric currents are
shunt resistors, current transformers, Hall-effect transducers,
Rogowski coils, flux gate current sensor, and magnetoresistors.
A more detailed description and comparison of these methods
can be found in Ref. 1–5. Flux gate transducers are widely
used in dc or low-frequency current measurements, they offer
a wide range of new applications and present a high potential
for future applications.6
Various structures of flux gate current sensor have been
reported. Azzoni et al. designed a flux gate current sensor by
measuring the intervals to reach inductor saturation and the
load current with a microcontroller.7 Velasco-Quesada et al.
presented a low power consumption flux gate transducer by
the use of a high-efficiency flyback dc-dc power converter.8
Firri et al. present a complete low-voltage, low-power, and
high linearity CMOS interface circuit for flux gate magnetic FIG. 1. Optimized structure of dual-core closed-loop flux gate current sensor.
current sensor.9 Sharafi and Nekoui designed a new ring core
flux gate sensor, in which the operating current requirements
and power consumption are significantly reduced.10 Koseki
et al. proposed to use information of the frequency of the
secondary excitation voltage of the flux gate direct current
sensor for coarse measurements of substantially larger exter-
nal primary current.11
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail:
xgyang@hebut.edu.cn. FIG. 2. Profile of the structure of magnetic cores and windings.
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07E722-2 Yang et al. J. Appl. Phys. 111, 07E722 (2012)
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07E722-3 Yang et al. J. Appl. Phys. 111, 07E722 (2012)
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