Dynamic and fluctuation parameters of dc SQUIDs

Franck Balestro, O. Buisson

Sing-Lin Wu, Ming-Jye Wang, Cheng-Chung Chi

Florent Lecocq, Ioan M. Pop, Zhihui Peng +7 more

Вадим Васильевич Данилов, Konstantin K. Likharev

M. Matsuda, Atsushi Matachi, Shinya Kuriki +1 more

The noise characteristics at low frequencies are studied for various planar dc SQUIDs made of junctions with different barrier materials of a-Si, aluminum oxide, and niobium oxide. It is found that fluctuations of the parameters of individual junctions contribute to the flux noise of the SQUIDs in a magnitude of the same order with the apparent flux noise. The magnitude of the flux noise due to the parameter fluctuations depends on the barrier material and on the inductance parameter βL . We have observed a telegraph noise in the voltage time trace and a Lorentzian in the voltage power spectrum for a current-biased SQUID. As a source of the parameter fluctuations, capture and emission of electrons at the trapping sites in the barrier are indicated.

Quansheng Liu, Huiwu Wang, Qiyu Zhang +3 more

Integrated NbN direct current superconducting quantum interference device (DC-SQUID) magnetometers were developed based on high-quality epitaxial NbN/AlN/NbN Josephson junctions for SQUID applications operating at high temperatures. We report the current–voltage and voltage–flux characteristics and the noise performance of the NbN DC-SQUIDs for temperatures ranging from 4.2 to 9 K. The critical current and voltage swing of the DC-SQUIDs decreased by 15% and 25%, respectively, as the temperature was increased from 4.2 to 9 K. The white flux noise of the DC-SQUID magnetometer at 1 kHz increased from 3.9 μΦ0/Hz1/2 at 4.2 K to 4.8 μΦ0/Hz1/2 at 9 K with 23% increase, corresponding to the magnetic field noise of 6.6 and 8.1 fT/Hz1/2, respectively. The results show that NbN DC-SQUIDs improve the tolerance of the operating temperatures and temperature fluctuations in SQUID applications.