Experimental determination of HTS dc-SQUID amplifier inductance and noise performance

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 849-852

  Mitchell, Emma E ^a   Tilbrook, David L ^a   MacFarlane, John C ^b   Foley, Catherine P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dc SQUIDs; Flux noise; High temperature superconductors; SQUID inductance

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; INDUCTANCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SQUIDS;

FLUX NOISE;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0042441147     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.814065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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