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A SQUID gradiometer module with large junction shunt resistors
A dual-washer superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with a loop inductance of 350 pH and two on- washer integrated input coils is designed according to conventional niobium technology. In order to obtain a large SQUID flux-to-voltage transfer coefficient, the junction shunt resistance...
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Published in: | Chinese physics B 2014-08, Vol.23 (8), p.622-624, Article 088503 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | A dual-washer superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with a loop inductance of 350 pH and two on- washer integrated input coils is designed according to conventional niobium technology. In order to obtain a large SQUID flux-to-voltage transfer coefficient, the junction shunt resistance is selected to be 33 Ω. A vertical SQUID gradiometer module with a baseline of 100 mm is constructed by utilizing such a SQUID and a first-order niobium wire-wound antenna. The sensitivity of this module reaches about 0.2 fT/(cm.Hz1/2) in the white noise range using a direct readout scheme, i.e., the SQUID is directly connected to an operational amplifier, in a magnetically shielded room. Some magnetocardiography (MCG) measurements with a sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are demonstrated. |
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ISSN: | 1674-1056 2058-3834 1741-4199 |
DOI: | 10.1088/1674-1056/23/8/088503 |