Performance of high-sensitivity nano-SQUIDs based on niobium dayem bridges

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 702-705

  Vettoliere, Antonio ^a   Granata, Carmine ^b   Esposito, Emanuela ^b   Russo, Roberto ^b   Petti, Lucia ^b   Ruggiero, Berardo ^b   Russo, Maurizio ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Advanced Technologies Biomagnetics Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dayem bridge; Magnetic sensor; Nano SQUID

Indexed keywords

DAYEM BRIDGE; FLUX CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; NANO-SQUID; NANOMETRICS; NIOBIUM COILS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; SIDE LENGTH; SMALL SIGNAL; SQUARE LOOP; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICE; SWITCHING PROBABILITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VOLTAGE TRANSFER; WORKING POINT;

ELECTRIC MEASURING BRIDGES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC SENSORS; NIOBIUM; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SQUIDS;

NANOSENSORS;

EID: 68249136597     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2019198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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