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Title: Read-out electronics for DC squid magnetic measurements

Patent ·
OSTI ID:874592

Read-out electronics for DC SQUID sensor systems, the read-out electronics incorporating low Johnson noise radio-frequency flux-locked loop circuitry and digital signal processing algorithms in order to improve upon the prior art by a factor of at least ten, thereby alleviating problems caused by magnetic interference when operating DC SQUID sensor systems in magnetically unshielded environments.

Research Organization:
Kansas City Plant (KCP), Kansas City, MO (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00613
Assignee:
Honeywell International Inc. (Morris County, NJ)
Patent Number(s):
US 6420868
OSTI ID:
874592
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Squid Fundamentals book January 1996
A direct current superconducting quantum interference device gradiometer with a digital signal processor controlled flux‐locked loop and comparison with a conventional analog feedback scheme journal January 1996
Advanced Squid Read-Out Electronics book January 1996
Some Broad-Band Transformers journal August 1959