{"id":226977,"date":"2025-12-12T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/chip-scale-magnetometer-uses-light-for-high-precision-magnetic-sensing"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:05:41","slug":"chip-scale-magnetometer-uses-light-for-high-precision-magnetic-sensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/chip-scale-magnetometer-uses-light-for-high-precision-magnetic-sensing","title":{"rendered":"Chip-scale magnetometer uses light for high-precision magnetic sensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chip-scale-magnetometer-uses-light-for-high-precision-magnetic-sensing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a precision magnetometer based on a special material that changes optical properties in response to a magnetic field. The device, which is integrated onto a chip, could benefit space missions, navigation and biomedical applications.<\/p>\n<p>High-precision magnetometers are used to measure the strength and direction of magnetic fields for various applications. However, many of today\u2019s magnetometers must operate at extremely low temperatures\u2014close to 0 kelvin\u2014or require relatively large and heavy apparatus, which significantly restricts their practicality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur device operates at room temperature and can be fully integrated onto a chip,\u201d said Paolo Pintus from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of Cagliari, Italy, co-principal investigator for the study. \u201cThe light weight and low power consumption of this magnetometer make it ideal for use on small satellites, where it could enable studies of the magnetic areas around planets or aid in characterizing foreign metallic objects in space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a precision magnetometer based on a special material that changes optical properties in response to a magnetic field. The device, which is integrated onto a chip, could benefit space missions, navigation and biomedical applications. High-precision magnetometers are used to measure the strength and direction of magnetic fields for various applications. However, many [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}