Abstract
We investigate the noise performance dependence on the critical current spread of a fully integrated magnetometer based on superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). In particular, we analyze the behavior of spectral density of magnetic field noise carrying out an experimental study on 200 magnetometers. The magnetic sensors consist of a superconducting flux transformer connected to a SQUID in a washer shape and include both a feedback coil for flux locked loop operation and an additional positive feedback circuit to increase the intrinsic voltage responsivity. A damping resistor in parallel to the SQUID inductance has been used in order to prevent both the degradation due to the non-optimal βL value and the washer resonances. Such sensors are often employed in magnetoencephalography or more in general in ultra-high sensitivity applications requiring the magnetic noise spectral density as low as 2 fT/√Hz in the white region.We will show that a SQUID critical current varying from 8 to 40 μA does not cause an evident degradation of the magnetometer sensibility. In addition, the magnetic field noise vs critical current indicates an optimal value of SQUID critical current of 20 μA. It corresponds to an inductance parameter βL of about 2 highlighting the effectiveness of the damping resistor in parallel to the SQUID inductance.
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