Combined mu-metal and niobium superconductor shielding for dc SQUID operation

Bu Xin Xu, Louisiana State University
W. O. Hamilton, Louisiana State University

Abstract

In this note, we report the use of a combined mu-metal and niobium superconductor shielding which results in much improved dc SQUID operation. The configuration is suitable for large experiments and is much cheaper than the mu-metal shielding conventionally used.