Sensoric application of glass-coated magnetic microwires

Abstract The glass-coated microwires are unique materials for construction of modern miniaturized contactless sensors. They offer few advantages like extremely high added value, small dimensions, biocompatibility, and many others. Within this chapter, the overview of sensor application for monitoring the temperature, stress, magnetic field, gas concentration, and many others is offered. Finally, some new compounds for using the microwires as mechanical actuators and coolers is shown.