An improved design for a class of magnetometer greatly increases the sensitivity of these devices — and might be the vanguard of a new generation of hybrid sensors that combine different types of signal to increase sensitivity.
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Wrachtrup, J., Finkler, A. Hybrid sensors ring the changes. Nature 512, 380–381 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/512380a
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