We describe the fabrication and testing of an integrated YBa2Cu3O7−x thin-film magnetometer consisting of a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), with biepitaxial grain boundary junctions, integrated with a flux transformer on a single substrate. Only two superconducting layers are required, the SQUID body serving as the crossunder that completes the multiturn flux transformer. The highest temperature at which any of the magnetometers functioned was 76 K. At 60 K the magnetic field gain of this device was 63, and the magnetic field noise was 160 fT Hz−1/2 at 2 kHz, increasing to 3.4 pT Hz−1/2 at 1 Hz.
Extensive ac-magnetic-permeability studies have been carried out on the irreversible behavior and flux dynamics in superconducting YBa2Cu307 crystals in external magnetic fields up to 7.5 T.From the analysis the irreversibility line B (T ) is found to scale as (1 -T /T, )", where n=l. 5 for fields higher than 1.5 T, and n=1 for lower fields. The exponents are sensitive to the choice of T,. The frequency dependence of the irreversibility temperature is carefully studied in the low-frequency region from 10 to 10 Hz and is found to be logarithmic in the whole frequency range. The small logarithmic slope increases with increasing external field. The analysis is done within a flux-creep picture using a single-relaxation-time form for the complex permeability, and
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