YBA2CU3O7-DELTA THIN-FILM GRADIOMETERS - FABRICATION AND PERFORMANCE

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EIDELLOTH, W
OH, B
ROBERTAZZI, RP
GALLAGHER, WJ
KOCH, RH
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10.1063/1.105657
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We have fabricated and tested superconducting first-order gradiometers made from YBa2Cu3O7-delta (YBCO) thin-film flux transformers coupled to YBCO dc SQUIDS. The flux transformers consisted of 10-turn input coils with 5-mu-m linewidth and two pick-up loops with 600-mu-m linewidth, each of which surrounded an area of 2.1 by 2.8 mm. All levels were patterned by wet etching. A magnetic field gradient of 1 nT/m resulted in a flux of 5.8 X 10(-4) PHI in the SQUID which corresponds to a responsivity of 1.21 X 10(-9) m3. The 1/f noise level at 77 K and 10 Hz was 0.6 nT/m square-root Hz and was dominated by SQUID noise.
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