SQUID Voltmeters and Amplifiers

The SQUID Handbook: Applications of SQUIDs and SQUID Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-93

  Clarke, John ^a,b   Lee, Adrian T ^a   Mück, Michael ^c   Richards, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axion detector; Magnetic resonance imaging; Microstrip SQUID amplifier; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Quadrupole resonance; SQUID amplifiers; SQUID applications; SQUID readout of thermal detectors; SQUID systems; SQUID voltmeters

Indexed keywords

EID: 74349083336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527609956.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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