Hybrid GMR Sensor Detecting 950 pT/sqrt(Hz) at 1 Hz and Room Temperature.

Advances in the magnetic sensing technology have been driven by the increasing demand for the capability of measuring ultrasensitive magnetic fields. Among other emerging applications, the detection of magnetic fields in the picotesla range is crucial for biomedical applications. In this work Picosense reports a millimeter-scale, low-power hybrid magnetoresistive-piezoelectric magnetometer with subnanotesla sensitivity at low frequency. Through an innovative noise-cancelation mechanism, the 1/f noise in the MR sensors is surpassed by the mechanical modulation of the external magnetic fields in the high frequency regime. A modulation efficiency of 13% was obtained enabling a final device's sensitivity of ~950 pT/Hz1/2 at 1 Hz. This hybrid device proved to be capable of measuring biomagnetic signals generated in the heart in an unshielded environment. This result paves the way for the development of a portable, contactless, low-cost and low-power magnetocardiography device

Spectral simulations and vibrational dynamics of the fluxional H+5 cationand its isotopologues: signatures of the shared-proton motions

1 pag.; 2 figs. PACS 33.20.Tp Vibrational analysis; 34.50.-s Scattering of atoms and molecules; 31.15.-p Calculations and mathematical techniques in atomic and molecular physics; 33.15.Mt Rotation, vibration, and vibration-rotation constants. XXVIII International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC 2013) IOP Publishing.The recent increased interest on research studies of the H+5 cation, and its isotopologues, is due to the postulation for their presence, although still not detected, in the interstellar medium. There is no doubt, particularly in the light of the recent laboratory observations, that the spectroscopy of these systems is also a great challenge for the theorists. Thus, we report the first fully converged coupled anharmonic quantum study on vibrational dynamics of these highly fluxional cations, providing important information on their spectroscopy in a rigorous manner, and open perspectives for further investigations. Published under licence by IOP Publishing LtdPeer Reviewe

Ab initio ground state potential energy surfaces for Rg–Br2 (Rg = He, Ne, Ar) complexes

6 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables.-- PACS: 31.15.Ar; 31.15.Dv; 33.15.Bh; 33.15.MtHigh-level ab initio molecular electronic structure calculations are performed for Rg–Br2 (Rg = He, Ne, Ar) complexes at CCSD(T) (coupled cluster using single and double excitations with a noniterative perturbation treatment of triple excitations) level of theory. Specific augmented correlation consistent basis sets are used for each noble atom (Rg), supplemented with an additional set of bond functions. Effective-core potentials (ECPs), augmented with diffusion (sp) and polarization (3df ) functions, have been employed for the bromine atoms. For all complexes, the CCSD(T) potential energy surfaces (PESs) show double-minimum topology, with wells at both linear and T-shaped configurations; the linear minimum is found to be deeper than the T-shaped one. Vibrational corrections are taken into account for all the complexes and their effects in the stability of the linear and T-shaped conformers are examined. For each complex and each configuration (linear and T-shaped), Re equilibrium intermolecular distances, De and D0 dissociation energies, are evaluated and compared with previous theoretical and/or experimental results.This work has been supported by DGICYT, Spain, Grant No. BCM 2001-2179 and by a European TMR network, Grant No. HPRN-CT-1999-00005. C.C. is indebted to CNPq, Brazil for supporting his postdoctoral at C.S.I.C, Proc. 200688/ 00-6 and R.P. acknowledges a postdoctoral fellowship by MEC, Spain, Ref. No. SB99 N0714831.Peer reviewe