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Organic thin-film magnetometers

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Magnetometry usually requires large probes and bulky instrumentation. Organic diodes have now been used in small probes that can measure moderate magnetic fields with 10 ppm precision.

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Figure 1: The basic magnetic resonance phenomenon.
Figure 2: A simplifield schematic of the magnetic resonance magnetometer probe described by Boehme and co-workers.

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  1. Joseph Shinar is at the Ames Laboratory of the US Department of Energy and at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA,

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