Voltage-current and voltage-flux characteristics of asymmetric high T-C DC SQUIDS

in: Physica C-Superconductivity and its Applications (2009)
Novikov, Ilya L.; Greenberg, Yascha S.; Schultze, Volkmar; IJsselsteijn, Robbert; Meyer, Hans-Georg
We report measurements of transfer functions and flux shifts of 20 on-chip high TC DC SQUIDs half of which were made purposely geometrically asymmetric. All of these SQUIDs were fabricated using standard high TC thin-film technology and they were single layer ones, having 140 nm thickness of YBa2Cu3O7_x film deposited by laser ablation onto MgO bicrystal substrates with 24_ misorientation angle. For every SQUID the parameters of its intrinsic asymmetry, i.e., the density of critical current and resistivity of every junction, were measured directly and independently. We showed that the main reason for the on-chip spreading of SQUIDs’ voltage–current and voltage–flux characteristics was the intrinsic asymmetry. We found that for SQUIDs with a relative large inductance (L > 120 pH) both the voltage modulation and the transfer function were not very sensitive to the junctions asymmetry, whereas SQUIDs with smaller inductance (L ’ 65–75 pH) were more sensitive. The results obtained in the paper are important for the implementation in the sensitive instruments based on high TC SQUID arrays and gratings.

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