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Advances in Magnetic Sensors and Their Applications: 2nd Edition

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2026) | Viewed by 1227

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Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Faculty of Information and Communications Technology, University of Malta, MSD 2080 Msida, Malta
Interests: microelectronics; micro-electromechanical systems; accelerator technology; magnetic materials; sensors; systems and interfacing; precision measurement; magnetic measurement
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Dear Colleagues,

Advancements in the design and applications of magnetic sensors are at the forefront of many disciplines, ranging from physics to medicine. Magnetic sensors are also very prominent, being present in diverse technological fields, from atomic physics to space applications.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for colleagues to publish their recent research, development, and innovation results related to advances in magnetic sensors and their applications. These include topics such as the following:

  • Fundamental concepts and techniques of magnetic sensing;
  • Magnetic sensors for big science subsystems including acceleration magnets, insertion devices, space applications, etc.;
  • Bio-electromagnetic sensing;
  • Characterisation of novel magnetic structures and their measurements;
  • Industrial magnetic sensing;
  • Sensing of magnetic material behaviours including harmonics, DC offsets, hysteresis, power losses, and coupled phenomena;
  • High-frequency and low-frequency magnetic sensors;
  • Sensing for the characterisation of permanent magnets, electromagnets, and superconducting magnets;
  • Electromagnetic device applications (including motors, transformers, etc.);
  • Magnetic sensor interfaces with instrumentation;
  • Sensing and magnetic standards;
  • Modelling, measurement, characterisation, and calibration of magnetic sensors;
  • Destructive and non-destructive magnetic sensing;
  • Magnetic sensors for micro and nanoscale applications;
  • Innovative applications of magnetic sensors;
  • Any other relevant topics.

Prof. Nicholas Sammut
Dr. Marco Calvi
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Keywords

  • magnetic sensors
  • magnetic actuators
  • non-destructive control
  • magnetic materials
  • magnetometers
  • fundamentals and physics of magnetic sensors
  • magnetic measurements and instrumentation
  • measurement standards
  • smart materials and composites
  • non-destructive control
  • tunable metamaterials
  • magnetic sensor applications

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Approximating the Performance of a Time-Domain Pulsed Induction EMI Sensor with Multiple Frequency-Domain FEM Simulations for Improved Modelling of Arctic Sea-Ice Thickness
by Becan Lawless, Danny Hills, Adam D. Fletcher and Liam A. Marsh
Sensors 2025, 25(23), 7317; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25237317 - 1 Dec 2025
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One of the key challenges with developing pulsed induction (PI) electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors for use in the Arctic is the inaccessibility of the environment, which makes in situ testing prohibitively expensive. To mitigate this, sensor development can be streamlined through the creation [...] Read more.
One of the key challenges with developing pulsed induction (PI) electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors for use in the Arctic is the inaccessibility of the environment, which makes in situ testing prohibitively expensive. To mitigate this, sensor development can be streamlined through the creation of a robust simulation strategy with which to optimize features such as coil turns and geometry. Building on work that previously presented a method for simulating an Arctic PI sensor via a time-domain finite element model (FEM), this paper presents a method for approximating a time-domain simulation with multiple frequency-domain simulations. A comparison between the fast Fourier transform (FFT) of a time-domain simulation and a collection of frequency-domain simulations is presented. These are validated against empirical data with a PI sensor over seawater, with an air gap used as a proxy for sea ice. Using the method described, a range of coils is simulated with dimensions from 0.5×0.5 m up to 1.0×2.0 m, demonstrating the ability of this approach to enable comparison of sensor performance over a wider parameter space. For a parametric sweep over 10 sensor-to-seawater lift-off distances, the improvement from the time-domain simulation (of a 402 μs window) to the frequency-domain simulation (comprising 100 discrete frequencies) represents a reduction in simulation time from 38,013 min to 141 min. Full article
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