SQUID - Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices and their Applications

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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF PARTICIPANTS -- THEORY OF SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE COUPLING -- Theory of phase coherence in SQUID'S. -- Investigation of the validity of generalizations of the adiabatic Josephson equation for a local junction by asymptotic expansions -- A self-consistent model of the Josephson junction -- Order parameter relaxation and Josephson effects in superconducting weak links -- JUNCTION FABRICATION TECHNIQUES -- Junction fabrication techniques -- Preparation of variable thickness microbridges using electron beam lithography and ion etching -- REAL JUNCTION PROPERTIES -- Properties of real junctions -- Some properties of long superconducting threads formed in monocrystalline silicon -- AC Josephson effect in long superconducting threads in static magnetic field -- Voltage current characteristics of superconducting to normal metal point contacts in an RF-field -- Measurement of the cos term in Josephson tunneling -- Effects in high critical current density Josephson tunnel junctions -- Supercurrent interference patterns in a tunneling junction structure -- Anomalous thermoelectric effects in point contact tunnel junctions -- LOW FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS -- Current performance of superconducting quantum interference devices -- A variable temperature high sensitivity SQUID magnetometer -- Flux creep of superconductors measured with a SQUID system -- A magnetic excited state in oxy haemoglobin A detected with an RF-SQUID-magnetometer -- High temperature application of SQUID voltmeter -- Use of persistent supercurrents in SQUID current stabilisers and their application to a resistivity measurement on niobium and a portable voltage standard -- The use of resistive SQUIDs for calorimetry -- Possible cryocoolers for SQUID magnetometers -- On limiting magnetic field sensitivity of superconducting quantum interferometer with two Josephson junctions -- An integrated thin film gradiometer based on a dc SQUID -- A cryodevice for induction monitoring of dc electron or ion beams with nano-ampere resolution -- A SQUID comperator bridge for low-tc-cryoresistor measurements -- HIGH FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS -- Superconducting devices for millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths -- A closed loop broadband microwave operated SQUID -- A numerical treatment of the lumped model of an RF biased SQUID by means of a hybrid computer -- RF power measurements using quantum interference in superconductors -- An analysis of the low inductance ac-SQUID operated as a dc-magnetometer in a mixing mode -- High frequency properties of stable Nb-Nb oxide-Pb Josephson tunnel junctions -- NOISE -- Noise limitations of RF SQUIDs -- Optimum response and damping of Josephson junctions -- COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS -- SQUID magnetometers for submarine communications at extremely low frequencies -- SIGNAL PROCESSING -- Complete linear equivalent circuit for the SQUID -- Two junction SQUID using a sampling technique -- RF SQUID in the non hysteretic mode: the phase modulation of the tank voltage. -- COMPUTER ELEMENTS -- SQUIDs as computer elements -- Switching between two different vortex modes in Josephson junctions -- Switching dynamics of Josephson junction logic circuits -- Superconducting neuromime: a Josephson junction model neuron -- Dynamics of flux transitions in the SQUID for the hysteretic case -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Summary and conclusions -- Subject Index -- Author Index