Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Höft

 

Professional Career

                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Since 2013 Professor (W3), Head of the Microwave Group at the Faculty of Engineering of the CAU Kiel
2010 - 2013 Group Leader at Panasonic Industrial Devices Europe GmbH, Lüneburg
2004 - 2010 Team Leader at Panasonic Industrial Devices Europe GmbH
2002 - 2004 Research Engineer at Panasonic Industrial Devices Europe GmbH
1997 - 2002 Research Assistant at the Institute of High-Frequency Technology of Hamburg University of Technology

 

Contact

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Höft
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU Kiel)
Microwave Group
Institute for Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering
Kaiserstr. 2, 24143 Kiel
Phone. +49 (0) 431 880 6150
E-Mail: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!
Website: Link

 

Projects and Positions

                                                                                                 
DescriptionRole
     B1 - Sensor Noise Performance and Analogue System DesignProject lead
     T1 - Transfer project – Individualized Deep Brain StimulationProject lead
     Z2 - Magnetoelectric Sensor CharacterizationProject lead

 

CRC-related Publications
E. Elzenheimer, S. Knappe-Grüneberg, J. Zerfowski, W. Evans, F. Grüneberg, M. Höft, S. R. Soekadar, S. Robinson, J. Voigt: Metrics and Experimental Test Bench for Assessing Highly Sensitive Magnetometers in Research, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 2432-2455, 2025.
L. Zimoch, S. Schröder, E. Elzenheimer, S. Kaps, T. Strunskus, F. Faupel, M. Höft, R. Adelung: Electret Integrated Magnetic Field Sensor Based on Magnetostrictive Polymer Composite with nT Resolution, Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 1561, 2025.
J. Hoffmann, H. Wolframm, E. Engelhardt, M. Boueke, T. Schmidt, J. Welzel, M. Höft, W. Maetzler, G. Schmidt: A Magnetoelectric Distance Estimation System for Relative Human Motion Tracking, Sensors, vol. 25, no. 2, 495, 2025.
E. Spetzler, B. Spetzler, D. Seidler, J. Arbustini, L. Thormählen, E. Elzenheimer, M. Höft, A. Bahr, D. Meyners, J. McCord: On the Origin of Signal and Bandwidth of Converse Magnetoelectric Magnetic Field Sensors, Advanced Sensor Research, 4: 2400109, 2024.
M. Yalaz, E. Elzenheimer, H. Wolframm, S. Knappe-Grüneberg, M. Höft, G. Deuschl, A.K. Helmers, T. Sander: Response of Lock-In Detection Based Optically Pumped Magnetometers to High Bandwidth Magnetic Signals, IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 8, iss. 8, 2024.
H. Wolframm, F. Weisheit, E.Quandt, M. Höft: Dedicated SAW Oscillator for Sensing Applications, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference , conf. proceedings, 2024.
L. Thormählen, P. Hayes, E. Elzenheimer, E. Spetzler, G. Schmidt, M. Höft, J. McCord, D. Meyners, E. Quandt: Low-noise Inverse Magnetoelectric Magnetic Field Sensor, Applied Physics Letters, 124 (17), 172402, 2024.
M. Gerhardt, L. Zimoch, C. Dorn, E. Elzenheimer, C. Bald, T. Lerg, J. Hoffmann, S. Kaps, M. Höft, G. Schmidt, S. Wulfinghoff, R. Adelung: Self-powered Elementary Hybrid Magnetoelectric Sensor, Nano Energy, vol. 115, 108720, 2023.
M. Gerhard, L. Zimoch, C. Dorn, E. Elzenheimer, C. Bald, T. Lerg, J. Hoffmann, S. Kaps, M. Höft, G. Schmidt, S. Wulfinghoff, R. Adelung: Self-powered Elementary Hybrid Magnetoelectric Sensor, Nano Energy, vol. 115, 108720, 2023. 
M. Yalaz, M. Butz, G. Deuschl, P. Boe, A.-K. Helmers, A. Schnitzler, M. Höft: Effects of Various Head Movement Executions on Spatial Accuracy of Magnetoencephalography Systems, IEEE Sensors, conf. processings, Vienna, Austria, pp. 1-4, 2023 
H. Wolframm, J. Hoffmann, R. Burgardt, E. Elzenheimer, G. Schmidt, M. Höft: PCB Coil Enables In Situ Calibration of Magnetoelectric Sensor Systems, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, 567-570, 2023. 
E. Elzenheimer, P. Hayes, L. Thormählen, E. Engelhardt, A. Zaman, E. Quandt, N. Frey, M. Höft, G. Schmidt: Investigation of Converse Magnetoelectric Thin Film Sensors for Magnetocardiography, IEEE Sensors Journal Print ISSN, pp. 5660-5669, 2023. 
P. Durdaut, M. Höft: Performance Analysis of Resonantly Driven Piezoelectric Sensors Operating in Amplitude Mode and Phase Mode, Sensors, 23(4), 1899, 2023.
J. Muñoz, J. Arbustini, E. Elzenheimer, M. Höft, A. Bahr: Digital Approaches on Frequency Tuning for Magnetoelectric Sensors, ICECS, 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits & Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, 2022. 
H. Wang, J. Arbustini, E. Elzenheimer, V. Schell, M. Höft, E. Quandt, G. Schmidt, H. Heidari, A. Bahr: Study of Chopping Magnetic Flux Modulation on Surface Acoustic Wave Magnetic Sensor, ICECS, 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits & Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, 2022. 
H. Wolframm, V. Schell, E. Quandt, M. Höft, A. Bahr: High Sensitivity Magnetoelastic Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Magnetic Field Sensors, Proc. SPIE, Spintronics XV, 1220505, 2022. 
J. Arbustini, J. Muñoz, H. Wang, E. Elzenheimer, J. Hoffmann, L. Thormählen, P. Hayes, F. Niekiel, H. Heidari, M. Höft, E. Quandt, G. Schmidt, A. Bahr: MEMS Magnetic Field Source for Frequency Conversion Approaches for ME Sensors, BMT2022 , Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, 2022. 
M. Yalaz, N. Maling, G. Deuschl, L. M. Juárez-Paz, M. Butz, A. Schnitzler, A.-K. Helmers, M. Höft: MaDoPO: Magnetic Detection of Positions and Orientations of Segmented Deep Brain Stimulation Electrodes: A Radiation-Free Method Based on, Brain Sciences, vol. 12, no. 1, article no. 86, 2022.
E. Elzenheimer, C. Bald, E. Engelhardt, J. Hoffmann, P. Hayes, J. Arbustini, A. Bahr, E. Quandt, M. Höft, G. Schmidt: Quantitative Evaluation for Magnetoelectric Sensor Systems in Biomagnetic Diagnostics, MDPI Sensors, vol. 22, no. 3, 1018, 2022.
C. Müller, P. Durdaut, R. B. Holländer, A. Kittmann, V. Schell, D. Meyners, M. Höft, E. Quandt, J. McCord: Imaging of Love Waves and Their Interaction with Magnetic Domain Walls in Magnetoelectric Magnetic Field Sensors, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2200033, 2022.
B. Spetzler, P. Wiegand, P. Durdaut, M. Höft, A. Bahr, R. Rieger, F. Faupel: Modeling and Parallel Operation of Exchange-Biased Delta-E Effect Magnetometers for Sensor Arrays, MDPI Sensors, vol. 21, no. 22, 759, 2021.
V. Schell, P. Durdaut, C. Müller, A. Kittmann , M. Yalaz, A. Bahr, D. Meyners, M. Höft, J. McCord, E. Quandt: Sensing Small Magnetic Fields with Surface Acoustic Waves, SAW Symposium 2021, Dresden, Germany, October 14th - 15th, 2021.
M. Yalaz, G. Deuschl, M. S. Noor, M. Butz, A. Schnitzler, A.-K. Helmers, M. Höft: Determining the Rotational Orientation of Directional Deep Brain Stimulation Electrodes Using Magnetoencephalography, Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 056056, 2021.
P. Durdaut, C. Müller, A. Kittmann, V. Schell, A. Bahr, E. Quandt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, J. McCord: Phase Noise of SAW Delay Line Magnetic Field Sensors, Sensors, vol. 21, issue 16, 5631, 2021.
B. Spetzler, C. Bald, P. Durdaut, J. Reermann, C. Kirchhof, A. Teplyuk, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, M. Höft, G. Schmidt, F. Faupel: Exchange Biased Delta-E Effect Enables the Detection of Low Frequency pT Magnetic Fields with Simultaneous Localization, Scientific Reports 11, Article no. 5269, 2021.
M. Yalaz, G. Deuschl, M. Butz, A. Schnitzler, A-K. Helmers, M. Höft: Investigation of Magnetoelectric Sensor Requirements for Deep Brain Stimulation Electrode Localization and Rotational Orientation Detection, Sensors, vol. 21, issue 7, 2527, 2021.
M. Yalaz, S. Noor, C. McIntyre, M. Butz, A. Schnitzler, G. Deuschl, M. Höft: DBS Electrode Localization and Rotational Orientation Detection Using SQUID-Based Magnetoencephalography, Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 18, no. 2, 2021.
P. Durdaut, E. Rubiola, J.-M. Friedt, C. Müller, B. Spetzler, C. Kirchhof, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, F. Faupel, J. McCord, R. Knöchel, M. Höft: Fundamental Noise Limits and Sensitivity of Piezoelectrically Driven Magnetoelastic Cantilevers, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 29, issue 5, 2020.
J. Schmalz, A. Kittmann, P. Durdaut, B. Spetzler, F. Faupel, M. Höft, E. Quandt, M. Gerken: Multi-Mode Love-Wave SAW Magnetic-Field Sensors, Sensors, vol. 20, issue 12, 3421, 2020.
A. Kittmann, C. Müller, P. Durdaut, L. Thormählen, V. Schell, F. Niekiel, F. Lofink, D. Meyners, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, J. McCord, E. Quandt: Sensitivity and Noise Analysis of SAW Magnetic Field Sensors with varied Magnetostrictive Layer Thicknesses, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 311, 111998, 2020.
M. Yalaz, A. Teplyuk, G. Deuschl, M. Höft: Dipole Fit Localization of the Deep Brain Stimulation Electrode using 3D Magnetic Field Measurements, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 69, issue 7, 2020.
N. O. Urs, E. Golubeva, V. Röbisch, S. Toxvaerd, S. Deldar, R. Knöchel, M. Höft, E. Quandt, D. Meyners, J. McCord: Direct Link between Specific Magnetic Domain Activities and Magnetic Noise in Modulated Magnetoelectric Sensors, Physical Review Applied, vol. 13, issue 2, 024018, 2020.
V. Schell, C. Müller, P. Durdaut, A. Kittmann, L. Thormählen, F. Lofink, D. Meyners, M. Höft, J. McCord, E. Quandt: Magnetic Anisotropy Controlled FeCoSiB Thin Films for Surface Acoustic Wave Magnetic Field Sensors, AIP Applied Physics Letters, vol. 116, issue 7, 073503, 2020.
M. Ö. Özden, A. Teplyuk, Ö. Gümüs, D. Meyners, M. Höft, M. Gerken: Magnetoelectric Cantilever Sensors under Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field Excitation, AIP Advances, vol. 10, issue 2, 025132, 2020.
P. Hayes, M. Jovičević Klug, S. Toxværd, P. Durdaut, V. Schell, A. Teplyuk, D. Burdin, A. Winkler, R. Weser, Y. Fetisov, M. Höft, R. Knöchel, J. McCord, E. Quandt: Converse Magnetoelectric Composite Resonator for Sensing Small Magnetic Fields, Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 16355, 2019.
J. Labrenz, A. Bahr, P. Durdaut, M. Höft, A. Kittmann, V. Schell and E. Quandt: Frequency Response of SAW Delay Line Magnetic Field/Current Sensor, IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 3, issue 10, 2019.
M. Yalaz, A. Teplyuk, M. Muthuraman, G. Deuschl, M. Höft: The Magnetic Properties of Electrical Pulses Delivered by Deep Brain Stimulation Systems, IEEE Trans on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, issue 7, 2019.
P. Durdaut, A. Kittmann, E. Rubiola, J.-M. Friedt, E. Quandt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft: Noise Analysis and Comparison of Phase- and Frequency-Detecting Readout Systems: Application to SAW Delay Line Magnetic Field Sensor, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 19, issue 18, pp. 8000-8008, 2019.
V. Schell, A. Kittmann, P. Durdaut, C. Müller, J. McCord, A.Bahr, M. Höft and E. Quandt: Substrate Materials for High Sensitivity Magnetic Field Sensors, 4th Euro Intelligent Materials, Kiel, 2019.
A. Kittmann, P. Durdaut, R. Rahlves, V. Schell, M. Höft, A.Bahr, E. Quandt, D. Meyners: Surface Accoustic Wave Magnetic Field Sensors in Magnetic Frontiers, Magnetic Sensors, Lisboa, Portugal, 2019.
B. Spetzler, C. Kirchhof, J. Reermann, P. Durdaut, M. Höft, G. Schmidt, E. Quandt, F. Faupel: Influence of the Quality Factor on the Signal to Noise Ratio of Magnetoelectric Sensors Based on the Delta-E Effect, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 114, issue 18, 183504, 2019.
M. Jovičević Klug, L. Thormählen, V. Röbisch, S. Salzer, M. Höft, E. Quandt D. Meyners, J. McCord: Antiparallel Exchange Biased Multilayers for Low Magnetic Noise Magnetic Field Sensors, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 114, issue 19, 192410, 2019.
P. Durdaut, M. Höft, J. M. Friedt, E. Rubiolar: Equivalence of Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Operation of SAW Resonators and Delay Lines, Sensors, vol. 19, issue 1, 2019.
P. Durdaut, A. Kittmann, A. Bahr, E. Quandt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft: Oscillator Phase Noise Suppression in Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor Systems, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 4975-4980, 2018.
S. Salzer, V. Röbisch, M. Klug, P. Durdaut, J. McCord, D. Meyners, J. Reermann, M. Höft, R. Knöchel: Noise Limits in Thin-Film Magnetoelectric Sensors With Magnetic Frequency Conversion, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 596-604, 2018.
A. Kittmann, P. Durdaut, S. Zabel, J. Reermann, J. Schmalz, B. Spetzler, D. Meyners, N. X. Sun, J. McCord, M. Gerken, G. Schmidt, M. Höft, R. Knöchel, F. Faupel, E. Quandt: Wide Band Low Noise Love Wave Magnetic Field Sensor System, Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 278, 2018.
J. Schmalz, A. Kittmann, P. Durdaut, B. Spetzler, F. Faupel, M. Höft, E. Quandt, M. Gerken: Comparison of the Fundamental and Higher Order Love Waves’ Sensitivities in a SAW Based Magnetic Field Sensor, SAW Symposium 2018, Dresden, 2018.
P. Durdaut, J. Reermann, S. Zabel, C. Kirchhof, E. Quandt, F. Faupel, G. Schmidt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft: Modeling and Analysis of Noise Sources for Thin-Film Magnetoelectric Sensors Based on the Delta-E Effect, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 2771-2779, 2017.
P. Durdaut, V. Penner, C. Kirchhof, E. Quandt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft: Noise of a JFET Charge Amplifier for Piezoelectric Sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 17, no. 22, pp. 7364-7371 , 2017.
J. Reermann, P. Durdaut, S. Salzer, T. Demming, A. Piorra, E. Quandt, N. Frey, M. Höft, G. Schmidt: Evaluation of Magnetoelectric Sensor Systems for Cardiological Applications, Measurement (Elsevier), ISSN pp. 0263-2241 , 2017.
J. Reermann, C. Bald, P. Durdaut, A.Piorra, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, M. Höft, G. Schmidt: Adaptive Mehrkanalige Geräuschkompensation für Magnetoelektrische Sensoren, Proc. DAGA, Kiel, Germany, 2017.
P. Durdaut, S. Salzer, J. Reermann, V. Röbisch, J. McCord, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, G. Schmidt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft: Improved Magnetic Frequency Conversion Approach for Magnetoelectric Sensors, IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 1, no. 3 , 2017.
P. Durdaut, S. Salzer, J. Reermann, V. Röbisch, P. Hayes, A. Piorra, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, G. Schmidt, R. Knöchel, M. Höft: Thermal-Mechanical Noise in Resonant Thin-Film Magnetoelectric Sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 2338-2348, 2017.
S. Salzer, P. Durdaut, V. Röbisch, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, M. Höft, R. Knöche: Generalised Magnetic Frequency Conversion for Thin Film Laminate Magnetoelectric Sensors, EEE Sensors Journal, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 1373-1383, 2017.
V. Röbisch, S. Salzer, N. O. Urs, J. Reermann, J. Yarar, A. Piorra, C. Kirchhof, E. Lage, M. Höft, G. Schmidt, R. Knöchel, J. McCord, E. Quandt, M. Meyners: Pushing the Detection Limit of Thin Film Magnetoelectric Heterostructures, Journal of Materials Research, vol. 32, issue 6, pp. 1009-1019, 2017.
J. Reermann, C. Bald, S. Salzer, P. Durdaut, A. Piorra, D. Meyners, E. Quandt, M. Höft, Gerhard Schmidt: Comparison of Reference Sensors for Noise Cancellation of Magnetoelectric Sensors, IEEE Sensors, Orlando, 2016.
P. Hayes, S. Salzer, J. Reermann, E. Yarar, V. Röbisch, A. Piorra, D. Meyners, M. Höft, R. Knöchel, G.Schmidt, E. Quandt: Electrically Modulated Magnetoelectric Sensors, Applied Physics Letters, 108(18), 2016.
E. Yarar, S. Salzer, V. Hrkac, A. Piorra, M. Höft, R. Knöchel, L. Kienle, E. Quandt: Inverse Bilayer Magnetoelectric Thin Film Sensor, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 109, issue 2, 2016.