Sonera Magnetics

Brief Description

Magnetometers are nearly ubiquitous in today’s world, fueling applications as diverse as medical diagnostics and self-driving cars. The most sensitive magnetometers, however, can only operate at extreme temperatures and in a shielded environment that isolates the sensor from ambient magnetic fields. Sonera Magnetics is developing a magnetometer that can operate at room temperature and in portable form factors with sensitivity comparable to the best magnetic sensors available today, dramatically increasing potential applications.

Co-founders Dominic Labanowski and Nishita Deka met as electrical engineering PhD students at UC Berkeley, joining together to commercialize a scalable solution for neural sensing after many years of deep research in magnetics and semiconductor devices.

Inventors

Dominic Labanowski, Sayeef Salahuddin

Company Founders

Dominic Labanowski (UC Berkeley Ph.D., Computer Science and Electrical Engineering), Nishita Deka (UC Berkeley Ph.D., Computer Science and Electrical Engineering), UC Berkeley Professor Sayeef Salahuddin