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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 91, Issue 7, Pages 4432-4437Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1448864
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We report on the dependence on field and temperature of the critical current of micro superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs): SQUIDs with diameters as small as 1 mum using Dayem bridges as weak links. We model these SQUIDs by solving the Ginzburg-Landau equations with appropriate boundary conditions to obtain the supercurrent-phase relationships. These solutions show that the phase drops and depression of the order parameter produced by supercurrent flow are often distributed throughout the micro-SQUID structure, rather than being localized in the bridge area, for typical micro-SQUID geometries and coherence lengths. The resultant highly nonsinusoidal current-phase relationships I-c(Phi) lead to reduced modulation depths and triangular dependences of the micro-SQUID critical currents on applied magnetic flux I-c(Phi). Our modeling agrees well with our measurements on both Al and Nb micro-SQUIDs. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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