摘要:
The invention concerns a superconducting magnetic sensor heater (72) for releasing trapped flux of a superconducting magnetic sensor employing a superconducting quantum interference device, said heater (72) having a fixed allowable input power, a predetermined input power being applied to said heater (72) for releasing said trapped flux, and said allowable input power of said heater (72) being smaller than said predetermined applied power.
摘要:
The invention concerns a SQUID magnetometer comprising:
a SQUID (10); means (61) for applying a predetermined bias current to said SQUID (10); means (57, 62) for detecting an output of said SQUID (10) to which said bias current is being applied; feedback means (65) for feeding the output of said SQUID (10) back to an amount of the bias current to said SQUID (10); means (64) for applying a bias magnetic field to said feedback means (65); and controls means (40) for automatically adjusting said bias magnetic field in a state that said bias current is adjusted such that an output voltage of said SQUID is at its maximum when an initial working point of said SQUID is adjusted
摘要:
A detecting coil 3 of a SQUID 10 is made of a superconductive film material having a critical temperature higher than the critical temperature of a superconductive film material used to form the Josephson junctions 1. It is thus possible properly to measure the sample even when its temperature is higher than the critical temperature of the Josephson junctions.
摘要:
The present invention provides a circuit device for driving a SQUID magnetometric sensor (2A). This device includes an FLL magnetometer circuit (1A) for driving the SQUID with an AC signal as a magnetometric sensor, an evaluator circuit (1B) for evaluating the SQUID characteristics, and a selector circuit (1C) for selecting a sensor function or an evaluator function. When the selection circuit selects one of the sensor and evaluator functions, only one of magnetometer and evaluator circuits is activated. Therefore, the circuit device can act alternatively as either a sensor or an evaluator.
摘要:
Improved probes (40) for miniaturized scanning magnetometers (scanning microscopes), particularly those utilizing superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), are provided by the invention. The improved probes can have sub-µ m ² effective pickup loop (42) areas and enhanced shielding through the use of progressively wider double groundplane structures (44,46,48,50) which result in improved probes (40) having high spatial resolution.