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Physica C Superconductivity

A high-voltage SFQ-to-DC driver for wide-range digital SQUID magnetometer based on flux quanta counting scheme

Mengfei Zhao, Yongliang Wang, Pusheng Yuan, Shuna Wang, Lingyun Li, Lixing You

Published Apr 8, 2025• 1 citation
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10.1016/j.physc.2025.1354708

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