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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) have been a key factor in the development
an
d
co
mmercialization
of ul
trasensitive
ma
gnetic
me
asurement
sy
stems
[1
]
. In ma
ny
ca
ses,
SQ
UID
ma
gnetometers
o
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t
he
a
bility
to m
ake
m
easurements
w
here
n
o
o
ther
m
ethodology
i
s
p
ossible
.
Be
cause
of th
eir
su
perconducting
na
ture,
SQ
UID
se
nsors
op
erate
at cr
yogenic
te
mperatures
.
Al
though
SQ
UID
el
ectronics
ha
ve
th
e
ca
pability
to op
erate
we
ll
ab
ove
1 MH
z,
mo
st
ap
plications
tend to be at lower frequencies. The ability of a SQUID sensor to measure changes in magnetic
fields and currents is based on four effects: superconductivity, the Meissner effe
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