Research & publications

All of my work, in one place.

Papers, preprints, thesis chapters, and the hardware behind them. Published work links to the journal, with BibTeX; everything else is a pre-written email away.

Ph.D. thesis · In progress

Flexible spintronics under strain

How mechanical strain reshapes magnetism in thin films, and how to turn that physics into devices: strain-tunable anisotropy, transport under bending, and sensors that read magnetic field and strain at once. I share chapters and the current draft with collaborators and committees.

Labeled render of the flexible sensor layer stack
Publications & preprints

Seven works. Three published, three under review, one submitted.

Effective anisotropy field versus applied field for parallel and orthogonal devices, shifting in opposite directions
Communications Physics · Under review · First authorPreprint

Shape anisotropy in patterned soft ferromagnets is constant only above a crossover field

Shape anisotropy is usually treated as a fixed, geometry-derived constant. Measured field by field it holds only above a crossover field: below it the magnetization is non-uniform and the shape contribution falls short, biasing low-field device models by 8–12%. The decisive evidence needs no fit: devices patterned parallel and orthogonal to the growth easy axis shift in opposite directions.

Comparison table of reconstructed magnetic sources for five test scenes: bicubic, SRCNN, EDSR and SRGAN baselines against PGMV-SRGAN and the calculated reference; PGMV-SRGAN recovers the source shape and orientation most faithfully
Array · Under reviewPreprint

Enhancing super-resolution fidelity through physics-guided multi-view conditioning

A physics-guided SRGAN reconstructs high-resolution magnetic field maps from sparse 3×3 sensor arrays, conditioned on the source’s physical parameters to stay physically consistent.

Schematic of growth and shape anisotropies combining in an elliptical sensor
Measurement · Under review · First authorPreprint

Enhanced magnetic resolution in elliptical planar Hall effect sensors via non-collinear anisotropy engineering

Patterning the ellipse orthogonal to the growth-induced easy axis makes the two anisotropies subtract instead of add, breaking the conventional resolution floor: the effective anisotropy field of a representative device dropped from 6.15 to 2.66 Oe, within 0.2 Oe of a parameter-free model.

Detection probability versus target magnetic field for a 780 pT per root hertz sensor at 10 Hz, comparing physics-based detectors from 1 to 8 dB, a fixed SNR = 3 rule, four learned classifiers, and the Neyman-Pearson bound at 1% false-positive rate, against a 50% limit-of-detection threshold
IEEE Sensors Journal · SubmittedManuscript

Multi-objective optimization of magnetic anomaly detection with planar Hall effect sensors

Applies multi-objective optimization to magnetic anomaly detection with planar Hall effect sensors, weighing competing detection objectives against one another rather than tuning for a single figure of merit.

A 3x3 array of nine planar Hall effect sensors on a board, with X and Y axis labels and a 1 cm scale bar
Applied Sciences · 2025Open access

Magnetic source detection with sensor arrays and machine learning

A 3×3 array of elliptical PHE sensors plus a neural network reconstructs magnetic source maps. Reaching the same quality without learning would take more than fifty sensors.

Equivalent magnetic noise spectra from the extended-field-range paper
Sensors · 2024 · First authorEditor’s ChoiceOpen access

Planar Hall effect magnetic sensors with extended field range

Ellipse geometry tunes the anisotropy field from 12 to 120 Oe, a tenfold wider operating range, while every size remains a single magnetic domain that follows the Stoner-Wohlfarth model. My first first-author paper.

Flexible planar Hall effect sensor held in tweezers
Applied Physics Letters · 2023Published

Flexible planar Hall effect sensor with sub-200 pT resolution

A planar Hall effect magnetometer on 25 µm Kapton: equivalent magnetic noise below 200 pT/√Hz flat and below 400 pT/√Hz bent to a 10 mm radius. At publication, the best resolution reported for a flexible magnetic sensor.

The record

The publication record.

01
Communications Physics · Under review · First author

Shape anisotropy in patterned soft ferromagnets is constant only above a crossover field

02
Array · Under review

Enhancing super-resolution fidelity through physics-guided multi-view conditioning

03
Measurement · Under review · First author

Enhanced magnetic resolution in elliptical planar Hall effect sensors via non-collinear anisotropy engineering

04
IEEE Sensors Journal · Submitted

Multi-objective optimization of magnetic anomaly detection with planar Hall effect sensors

05
Applied Sciences · 2025

Magnetic source detection using an array of planar Hall effect sensors and machine learning algorithms

M. Vizel, R. Alimi, D. Lahav, M. Schultz, S. Amrusi, A. Grosz, L. Klein

06
Sensors · 2024 · First authorEditor’s Choice

Planar Hall effect magnetic sensors with extended field range

D. Lahav, M. Schultz, S. Amrusi, A. Grosz, L. Klein

07
Applied Physics Letters · 2023

Flexible planar Hall effect sensor with sub-200 pT resolution

H. Nhalil, D. Lahav, M. Schultz, S. Amrusi, A. Grosz, L. Klein

From the lab

The hardware behind the plots.

Six-step render of the sensor fabrication process
Six steps from bare wafer to diced sensor. Render of the actual fabrication process.
Photo of a fabricated elliptical planar Hall effect chip
A fabricated elliptical planar Hall effect chip.
Helmholtz coil pair inside a magnetically shielded chamber
Helmholtz coils inside the shielded measurement chamber.

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