Magnetoelectric (ME) vector field sensors can be realized by combining individual sensors
with anisotropic sensitivity. Following this approach, exchange biased ME thin film
composites were incorporated into two dimensional vector magnetometers. These self
biased composites do not need magnetic dc bias fields for their operation, which allows a
high degree of miniaturization since interference of individual bias fields is avoided. The
successful detection of a two dimensional magnetic vector field opens the path to full three …