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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2024
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Gang Liu, Camas, WA (US);
Santosh Menon, Portland, OR (US);
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
Illustrative multi-component Hall effect sensors and sensing methods are suitable for embedding within integrated circuitry. One illustrative integrated circuit device includes: a substrate comprising a semiconductive body material with an upper surface; a focus contact on the upper surface that connects via an electrically isolated path to a embedded current focus within the body material; one or more distributed current contacts on the upper surface that operate in combination with the embedded current focus to form a distributed current flow through the body material; and an arrangement of sensing contacts on the upper surface to detect a set of voltages representing a Hall effect measurement for each three dimensional vector component of a magnetic field acting on the distributed current flow.