Practical RF SQUIDs: Configuration and Performance

The SQUID Handbook

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 219-250

  Braginski, Alex I ^a   Zhang, Yi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excess noise in rf SQUIDs; Practical rf SQUIDs; Rf SQUID gradiometers; Rf SQUID magnetometers; Rf SQUIDs to high frequency electromagnetic interference; Technological limitations; The rf SQUID versus the dc SQUID

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MAGNETOMETERS; MOLLUSCS;

DC SQUID; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; RF SQUID; TECHNOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS;

SHELLFISH;

EID: 84857418650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/3527603646.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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