Magnetoresistive (MR) sensors have been identified as promising candidates for the development of high-performance magnetometers due to their high sensitivity, low cost, low power consumption, and small size. The rapid advance of MR sensor technology has opened up a variety of MR sensor applications. These applications are in different areas that require MR sensors with different properties. Future MR sensor development in each of these areas requires an overview and a strategic guide. A MR sensor roadmap (non-recording applications) was therefore developed and made public by the Technical Committee of The IEEE Magnetics Society with the aim to provide an R&D guide for MR sensors intended to be used by industry, government, and academia. The roadmap was developed over a three-year period and coordinated by an international effort of 22 taskforce members from 10 countries and 17 organizations, including universities, research institutes, and sensor companies. In this paper, the current status of MR sensors for non-recording

Higher order quasi TE0np modes have been used for precise measurements of permittivity and dielectric loss tangent of low-loss dielectric ceramics versus frequency in the microwave frequency range. It has been shown that, using this technique, dielectrics having arbitrary permittivity value and dielectric loss tangent values in the range 10−6–10−2 can be measured with relative uncertainties below 0.5% for real permittivity and below 5% for dielectric losses. Several dielectric materials have been measured including single- crystal quartz, single-crystal sapphire and the low-loss microwave ceramics BMT, BZT and BZNT.

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