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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4976823
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- European Union [686865]
- DFG [KO 5321/1-1]
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The magnetic field noise in superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) used for biomagnetic research such as magnetoencephalography or ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance is usually limited by instrumental dewar noise. We constructed a wideband, ultra-low noise system with a 45 mm diameter superconducting pick-up coil inductively coupled to a current sensor SQUID. Thermal noise in the liquid helium dewar is minimized by using aluminized polyester fabric as superinsulation and aluminum oxide strips as heat shields. With a magnetometer pickup coil in the center of the Berlin magnetically shielded room 2 (BMSR2), a noise level of around 150 aT Hz(-1/2) is achieved in the white noise regime between about 20 kHz and the system bandwidth of about 2.5 MHz. At lower frequencies, the resolution is limited by magnetic field noise arising from the walls of the shielded room. Modeling the BMSR2 as a closed cube with continuous l-metal walls, we can quantitatively reproduce its measured field noise. Published by AIP Publishing.
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