Axial high-temperature superconducting gradiometer with a flexibleflux transformer
- 28 June 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 84 (26), 5347-5349
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1766401
Abstract
An axial first-order gradiometer is formed by coupling the input coil of a flexible high-temperaturesuperconducting flux transformer inductively to a directly coupled superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer. The transformer is patterned in a single-layer YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 − x film on a flexible Hastelloy tape. The tape is bent such that the two outer pickup loops of the transformer are facing each other while perpendicular to the magnetometer plane resulting in a gradiometer baseline of 35 mm . A superconducting shield is mechanically adjusted to reduce the gradiometer response to uniform fields applied perpendicularly to both the magnetometer plane and the plane of the transformer pickup loops, by a factor of typically 7000.Keywords
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