Noise Performance of High-Tc DC SQUID Magnetometers

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 3113-3118

  Fife, A A ^a   Anderson, G ^a   Angus, V ^a   Backhouse, C ^a   Betts, K ^a   Burbank, M B ^a   Cragg, R A ^a   Ferguson, K ^a   Habib, F ^a   Nomura, Kubik J ^a   Smith, M ^a   Spear, P ^a   Westera, W ^a   Zhou, H ^a   Vrba, J ^a   Curzon, A E ^a   Irwin, J C ^a   Chrzanowski, J ^a   Burany, X M ^a   Govorkov, S ^a   Brown, P ^a   Xing, W B ^a   Heinrich, B ^b   more..

^a CTF Systems Inc   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LASER ABLATION; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

FLUX TRANSFORMER; KETCHEN-JAYCOX DESIGN; SQUARE WASHER GEOMETRY; STEP EDGE MICROBRIDGE JUNCTIONS; STRONTIUM TITANIUM OXIDE; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDE;

MAGNETOMETERS;

EID: 0029326360     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: 15582515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.403251     Document Type: Article

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