Title :
Performance of high-Tc dc SQUID magnetometers with resistively shunted inductances compared to “unshunted” devices
Author :
Kahlmann, F. ; Booij, W.E. ; Blamire, M.G. ; McBrien, P.F. ; Peng, N.H. ; Jeynes, C. ; Romans, E.J. ; Pegrum, C.M. ; Tarte, E.J.
Author_Institution :
Interdisciplinary Res. Centre in Superconductivity, Cambridge Univ., UK
fDate :
3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We have investigated resistively shunted direct-coupled high-Tc dc SQUID magnetometers with different inductances. At T=77 K, good quantitative agreement was observed between the measured maximum voltage modulation depth and calculated values based on the theoretical predictions by Enpuku et al. (1995) whereas the white magnetic flux noise at 10 kHz of all four devices was found to be a factor of 2.3 higher than predicted. The lowest white magnetic field noise of 153 fT/Hz1/2 was obtained for the magnetometer with an inductance of 100 pH and an outer dimension of the pickup loop of just 3 mm. The combined theoretical and experimental results suggest that although similar magnetic field noise values can he obtained for inductances up to 200 pH, the minimum value of the unshunted case cannot be improved upon. However, the maximum voltage modulation depth could be increased significantly at little cost to the noise compared to an unshunted device
Keywords :
SQUID magnetometers; high-temperature superconductors; inductance; magnetic noise; superconducting device noise; white noise; 10 kHz; 77 K; direct-coupled DC SQUID magnetometer; high-Tc superconductor; pickup loop; resistively shunted inductance; unshunted device; voltage modulation depth; white magnetic flux noise; Inductance; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic fields; Magnetic flux; Magnetic noise; Resistors; SQUID magnetometers; Superconducting device noise; Voltage; White noise;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
