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Design and Construction of an HTS DC SQUID Electronic Gradiometer NDE system

  • Kim, J.Y.;Han, S.G.;Kang, J.H.;Lee, E.H.;Song, I.H.
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.115-119
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    • 2000
  • We designed and constructed a non-destructive evaluation system using an HTS DC SQUID electronic gradiometer. Our DC SQUID electronic gradiometer is composed of two DC SQUID magnetometers. The system included a non-magnetic stainless steel cryostat and a set of coaxial exciting coils, which were used to induce an eddy current in the test piece. We also have calculated the eddy current density produced by an exciting coil in any direction of the testing object. We could compute the eddy current density distribution in 3D. The SQUIDs were computer controlled and the output data from the electronic gradiometer was obtained by using a Labview software.

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Fabrication and Characteristics of Integrated Nb DC SQUID (집적화된 Nb DC SQUID 소자의 제작 및 특성)

  • Lee, Yong-Ho;Gwon, Hyeok-Chan;Kim, Jin-Mok;Park, Jong-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.277-281
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    • 1992
  • We have designed, fabricated and tested an integrated planar DC SQUID which incorporates input coil and mofulation coil in thin film structure. The SQUID uses Nb /Al-oxide /Nb Josephson junctions and Pd shunt resistors, and the SQUID loop incorporates two rings connected in series forming figure '8' structure and has the advantage of a negligibly small circulating current for the spatially homogeneous noise fields. The devices were fabricated using photolithographic technique, RF magnetron sputtering, anodic oxidation for insulation and lift-off process. The preliminary test of the fabricated SQUID at 4.2 K showed that the flux-voltage characteristics were smooth enough to adopt standard readout system, and the voltage noise was too small to be measured by direct method and so the white noise was thought to be less than $10^{-4}\;{\phi}_o/\;\sqrt{H_z}$.

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Fabrications and measurements of single layer YBCO dc-SQUID magnetometers designed with parallel-loop pickup coil (Parallel-loop 검출코일을 가지는 단일층 YBCO dc-SQUID 자력계의 제작 및 특성 연구)

  • 유권규;김인선;박용기
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2003
  • We have designed and fabricated the single-layer high $T_{c}$ SQUID magnetometer consisting of a directly coupled grain boundary junction SQUID with an inductance of 100 pH and 16 nested parallel pickup coils with the outermost dimension of 8.8 mm ${\times}$ 8.8 mm. The magnetometer was formed from a YBCO thin film deposited on an STO(100) bicrystal substrate with a misorientation angle of $30^{\circ}$. The SQUID magnetometer was further improved by optimizing the multi-loop pickup coil design for use in unshielded environments. Typical characteristics of the dc SQUID magnetometer had a modulation voltage of 40 $\mu\textrm{V}$ and a white noise of $30fT/Hz^{1}$2/. The SQUID magnetometer exhibited a 1/f noise level at 10 Hz reduced by a factor of about 3 compared with that of the conventional solid type pickup coil magnetometers and a very stable flux locked loop operation in magnetically disturbed environments.s.

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Generation of Very Low Temperature and Development of dc SQUID (극저온의 생성 및 dc SQUID개발)

  • Park, Jong-Chul
    • The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.116-120
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    • 1989
  • 액체헬륨온도(4.2K)를 얻을 수 있는 극저온 소형 냉동기 개발과 정밀측정(전류, 자장, 전압 등)에 사용되고 있는 dc SQUID(초전도 양자간섭장치) 제작에 관하여 설명하였다. 이와 아울러 극저온 연구가 첨단과학 및 산업에 어떻게 응용하고 있는가와 국내외 연구현황에 대하여 간단히 기술하였으며 앞으로의 대책에 관하여 논의한다.

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Fabrication of an HTS DC SQUID Electronic Gradiometer and it's application in NDE system (고온 초전도 Electronic Gradiometer의 제작과 NDE system 에의 응용)

  • Kim, Jin-Young;Han, Sung-Gun;Kang, Joon-Hee;Lee, Eun-Hong;Song, I-Hun
    • 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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    • v.9
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    • pp.120-123
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    • 1999
  • We designed and constructed a non-destructive evaluation system using an HTS DC SQUID electronic gradiometer. Our DC SQUID electronic gradiometer is composed of two DC SQUID magnetometers. The system included a non-magnetic stainless steel cryostat and a set of coaxial exciting coils, which were used to induce an eddy current in the test material. We also have calculated the eddy current density produced by an exciting coil in any direction of the testing object. We could compute the eddy current density distribution in 3D. The SQUIDs were computer controlled and the output data from the electronic gradiometer was obtained by using a Labview software.

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An Ultra Low-noise Radio Frequency Amplifier Based on a DC SQUID

  • Muck, Michael;Ande, Marc-Olivier;Kinion, Darin;Clarke, John
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2000
  • We have developed an extremely sensitive radio frequency amplifier based on the dc superconducting quantum interference device (dc SQUID). Unlike a conventional semiconductor amplifier, a SQUID can be cooled to ultra-low temperatures (100 mK or less) and thus potentially achieve a much lower noise temperature. In a conventional SQUID amplifier, where the integrated input coil is operated as a lumped element, parasitic capacitance between the coil and the SQUID washer limits the frequency up to which a substantial gain can be achieved to a few hundred MHz. This problem can be circumvented. by operating the input coil of the SQUID as a microstrip resonator: instead of connecting the input signal between the two ends of the coil, it is connected between the SQUID washer and one end of the coil; the other end is left open. Such amplifiers have gains of 15 dB or more at frequencies up to 3 GHz. If required, the resonant frequency of the microstrip can be tuned by means of a varactor diode connected across the otherwise open end of the resonator. The noise temperature of microstrip SQUID amplifiers was measured to be between 0.5 K $\pm$ 0.3 K at a frequency of 80 MHz and 1.5 K $\pm$: 1.2 K at 1.7 GHz, when the SQUID was cooled to 4.2 K. An even lower noise temperature can be achieved by cooling the SQUID to about 0.4 K. In this case, a noise temperature of 100 mK $\pm$ 20 mK was achieved at 90 MHz, and of about 120 $\pm$ 100 mK at 440 MHz.

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An ultra low-noise radio frequency amplifier based on a dc SQUID

  • Andre, Marc-Olivier;Kinion, Darin;Clarke, John;Muck, Michael
    • 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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    • v.10
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    • pp.2-6
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    • 2000
  • We have developed an extremely sensitive radio frequency amplifier based on the dc superconducting quantum interference device (dc SQUID). Unlike a conventional semiconductor amplifier, a SQUID can be cooled to ultra-low temperatures (100 mK or less) and thus potentially achieve a much lower noise temperature. In a conventional SQUID amplifier, where the integrated input coil is operated as a lumped element, parasitic capacitance between the coil and the SQUID washer limits the frequency up to which a substantial gain can be achieved to a few hundred MHz. This problem can be circumvented by operating the input coil of the SQUID as a microstrip resonator: instead of connecting the input signal open. Such amplifiers have gains of 15 dB or more at frequencies up to 3 GHz. If required, the resonant frequency of the microstrip can be tuned by means of a varactor diode connected across the otherwise open end of the resonator. The noise temperature of microstrip SQUID amplifiers was measured to be between $0.5\;K\;{\pm}\;0.3\;K$ at a frequency of 80 MHz and $1.5\;K\;{\pm}\;1.2\;K$ at 1.7 GHz, when the SQUID was cooled to 4.2 K. An even lower noise temperature can be achieved by cooling the SQUID to about 0.4 K. In this case, a noise temperature of $100\;mK\;{\pm}\;20\;mK$ was achieved at 90 MHz, and of about $120\;{\pm}\;100\;mK$ at 440 MHz.

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YBCO step-edge junction dc SQUID magnetometers with multi-loop pickup coil fabricated on sapphire substrates (사파이어 기판을 사용한 병렬 검출코일 구조의 계단형 모서리 접합 SQUID 자력계)

  • 황태종;김인선;김동호;박용기
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.94-97
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    • 2004
  • Step-edge Josephson junctions (SEJ) have been fabricated on sapphire substrates with in situ deposited films of CeO$_2$ buffer layer and YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7}$ films on the low angle steps. Direct coupled SQUID magnetometers with the SEJ were formed on 1 cm X 1 cm R-plane sapphire substrates. Typical 5-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$-wide Josephson junctions have R$_{N}$ of 3 Ω and I$_{c}$ of 50 $mutextrm{A}$ at 77 K. The direct coupled SQUID magnetometers were designed to have pickup coils of 50-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$-wide 16 parallel loops on the 1 cm X 1 cm substrates with outer dimension of 8.8 mm X 8.8 mm. The SEJ SQUID magnetometers exhibit relatively low 1/f noise even with dc bias control, and could be stably controlled by flux-locked loops in the magnetically disturbed environment. Field noise of the do SQUID was measured to be 200∼300 fT/Hz$^{1}$2/in the white noise region and about 2 pT/Hz$^{1}$2/ at 1 Hz when measured with dc bias method.hod.d.

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