References / What we don't measure against

We don't publish an optimal slew rate or rise time

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Some buyer's guides name a best slew-rate window, often 15 to 30 T/s, or an ideal rise time near 80 to 300 microseconds. We measure and report slew rate and rise time, but we don't mark a target range as optimal.

Why we leave it out

We traced those specific windows to vendor advocacy pages, not to primary research, and one widely copied version even misspells the researcher it leans on. A faster-changing field does induce a stronger stimulus, and that part is real physics, but a single best number isn't established. So we give the measured value and the reason it matters, and we let the number stand on its own.
A single field pulse over time, with its rise and fall edges labeledA trapezoidal pulse showing the field rising from baseline to peak, holding, then falling back. The 10 percent and 90 percent levels mark the rise time and fall time; the width at 50 percent of peak is the pulse width; the steepness of the rising edge is the slew rate.90%10%Slew rateRise timeFall timePulse width (at 50%)Time →© 2026 Gauss Labs
One pulse over time. The field climbs from rest to its peak, holds, then falls back. How fast that rising edge climbs is the slew rate, and a steeper edge drives a stronger stimulus. The rise time and fall time are measured between the 10% and 90% levels; the pulse width is measured at half the peak.