Published January 9, 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Picovoltmeter based on a high transition temperature SQUID

  • 1. Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Description

We have fabricated and tested picovoltmeters in which the voltage source is connected in series with a calibrated resistor and a coil inductively coupled to a high-transition temperature superconducting quantum interference device operating at 77 K. The coil consists of either seven or ten turns of copper wire or of two turns patterned in a film of YBa2Cu3O7-x(YBCO). The lowest voltage noise achieved at 1 Hz was 30 pV Hz-1/2 and 2.3 pV Hz-1/2 for input coils made of copper and YBCO, respectively

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Applied Physics Letters
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 230-232.
ISSN
0003-6951
CODEN
APPLAB