Obstacles using amorphous materials for volume applications

Abstract This contribution is especially focussed on the attempt to use amorphous or nanocrystalline metals in position sensor applications and to describe the difficulties and obstacles encountered in coherence with the development of appropriate industrial high volume series products in conjunction with the related quality requirements. The main motivation to do these investigations was to beat the generally known sensors especially silicon based Hall-sensors as well as AMR- and GMR-sensors – well known from mobile phones and electronic storage devices like hard discs and others – in terms of cost-effectiveness and functionality.