Mark B. Ketchen, Manjul Bhushan, et al.
IEEE International SOI Conference 2005
The design, fabrication, and noise properties of an ultra-low-noise tunnel junction dc SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device) are presented. The two resistively shunted Pb-alloy tunnel junctions are each 3.6 μm diam. The SQUID has an inductance L of ≈11 pH, a critical current per junction, I0 of ≈100 μA, and a resistance per shunt R of ≈2 Ω. At 2.3 K, eI0R≈kBT, and simple theory predicts that the minimum intrinsic energy sensitivity should be ≈2h. The actual minimum value of the measured high-frequency (70 kHz) flux noise at 4.2 K is φn=1.3×10-7φ0 Hz-1/2. This corresponds to an intrinsic energy sensitivity, φ2n/2L, of 3.2×10-33 J Hz-1 or 5h. Lowering the bath temperature to 1.8 K gave no improvement in performance.
Mark B. Ketchen, Manjul Bhushan, et al.
IEEE International SOI Conference 2005
Richard F. Voss
Journal of Statistical Physics
Zheng Cui, John R. Kirtley, et al.
Review of Scientific Instruments
Mark B. Ketchen
IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine