Magnetic microscopy using a liquid nitrogen cooled YBa2Cu3O7 superconducting quantum interference device
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- 26 April 1993
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 62 (17) , 2128-2130
Abstract
We have developed a magnetic flux microscope which uses a liquid nitrogen cooled thin‐film YBa2Cu3O7 dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) to produce two‐dimensional images of magnetic fields. The instrument operates as a scanning probe microscope with a spatial resolution of about 80 μm and a field of view of about 100 mm2. The equivalent magnetic field noise in the SQUID ranges from 80 pT Hz−1/2 at 1 Hz to 20 pT Hz−1/2 at 1 kHz, yielding a field resolution of about 200 pT in our images. We have used the microscope to image magnetic domains in ferromagnetic samples, small currents flowing in fine wires, and trapped flux and diamagnetic susceptibility in superconducting thin films.Keywords
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