Temperature Dependence Performances of Fully Integrated DC SQUID Magnetometers

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 3829-3832

  Granata, Carmine ^a   Monaco, Antonia ^a   Di Russo, Cosmo ^a,b   Lissitski, Mikhail P ^a   Russo, Maurizio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Advanced Technologies Biomagnetics Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct current superconducting quantum interference device (dc SQUID); Superconducting magnetometer

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; BRAIN; FEEDBACK; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NIOBIUM; SQUIDS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; THIN FILMS;

BIOMAGNETISM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

MAGNETOMETERS;

EID: 0347337939     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.816204     Document Type: Article

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