Abstract
Noise characteristics of a large-β dc SQUID have been studied experimentally in the case when a SQUID inductance is resistively shunted. Here, ß=2LIo/¢o is a modulation parameter, L is a SQUID inductance, Io is a critical current and ¢o is the flux quantum. Energy resolutions of the SQUIDs, ε, have been measured for various β values up to β=19. It is shown experimentally that energy resolutions of the present large-β SQUIDs are as small as that of the conventional SQUID with β=1. For example, energy resolution ε=25h was obtained even for β=12(L=340pH and Io=37µA), where his the Planck constant. The obtained experimental results agree quantitatively with theoretical ones. It is also shown that the present resistively-shunted-inductance scheme is very useful in developing SQUIDs operating at T=77k with high-Tc superconductors, where the value of β will become necessarily large in order to avoid noise effects. Numerical simulations on the performance of the high-Tc SQUID are presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1154-1157 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 1989 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering