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Review of Scientific Instruments

Note: Increasing dynamic range of digital-to-analog converter using a superconducting quantum interference device

Masakazu Nakanishi

Published Oct 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

Responses of a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) are periodically dependent on magnetic flux coupling to its superconducting ring and the period is a flux quantum (Φo = h/2e, where h and e, respectively, express Planck's constant and elementary charge). Using this periodicity, we had proposed a digital to analog converter using a SQUID (SQUID DAC) of first generation with linear current output, interval of which corresponded to Φo. Modification for increasing dynamic range by interpolating within each interval is reported. Linearity of the interpolation was also based on the quantum periodicity. A SQUID DAC with dynamic range of about 1.4 × 10(7) was created as a demonstration.

DOI
10.1063/1.4897334

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