Temperature dependence of the effective sensing area of high- dc SQUIDs
- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Superconductor Science and Technology
- Vol. 10 (7) , 512-515
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-2048/10/7/009
Abstract
The effective sensing area of a high- dc SQUID depends on temperature. As a consequence, fluctuations in the operating temperature result in apparent magnetic field noise if the SQUID is placed in a background magnetic field. An analysis of this effect for two SQUID types, the square-washer `Ketchen' type and the inductively shunted type, is performed. For magnetocardiography, the temperature fluctuations (peak to peak) of the latter SQUID type should be below w0.3 mK at 77 K, and below 2 mK at 55 K, with an earth's field suppression of 40 dB. For the square-washer SQUID the requirements are about 8 times less stringent.Keywords
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