P. Seidel et al., INVESTIGATION OF THIN-FILM DE SQUID GRADIOMETER USING A SINGLE YBCO LAYER, IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity, 5(2), 1995, pp. 2931-2934
Thin film dc SQUID gradiometers with a large effective pickup area usi
ng only a single YBa2Cu3O7-x layer and step edge Josephson junctions o
n SrTiO3 substrate have been prepared. The planar gradiometer consist
of two loops coupled directly to a small area SQUID in the renter of t
he structure. The main advantage in comparison to magnetometers is the
possibility of direct measurements in magnetically unshielded environ
ment. At 77 K without bias reversal technique we obtain a white noise
level about 3.610(-5) Phi(0)/Hz(1/2) or 700 fT/cmHz(1/2). Some peculi
arities for two SQUID arrangement with 4 Josephson junctions are obser
ved and simulated on the base of RSJ model.