U. Ausserlechner et al., VECTOR MEASUREMENT OF THE MAGNETIC DIPOLE-MOMENT BY MEANS OF A VIBRATING SAMPLE MAGNETOMETER, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 30(2), 1994, pp. 1061-1063
The voltage induced in pickup coils by in general non-uniformly magnet
ized samples of finite size, which vibrate with large amplitude in arb
itrary direction, is calculated. A system for the measurement of the d
ipole vector is proposed. Its minimum full scale range is 10(-7)Am2 fo
r the z-component and it is optimized in order to suppress octupole co
ntributions. The errors of sample displacement and of misaligned vibra
tion axis are well below 1 %.