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Abstract
Efforts have recently been put into developing proton precession magnetometers (PPM) in order to measure weak magnetic fields with high precision. Although high-cost commercial PPMs are available today, there are ongoing studies for low power consumption, low cost, high accuracy and resolution. Accordingly, in this study, a new PPM with a measurement range of 20,000 nT-120,000 nT, a production cost of $2000 and an accuracy of 0.13 nT was developed and its performance in determining the earth’s magnetic field was examined. It was determined that the developed PPM has an advantage over its commercial equivalents (G857, WCZ, etc.) in terms of price-performance ratio and can be used to determine small magnetic field values such as the earth’s magnetic field.
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Data sharing does not apply to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.
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H. Citak
Hakan Citak was born in Romanshorn, Switzerland in 1969. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electric Education, Institute of Science, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1995 and 2014, respectively. He is currently working for the Balikesir Vocational High School, Electric Program, Balikesir University, Balikesir. His research interests are magnetic sensors and magnetic anomaly. He holds two patents.