Improvement of spatial and field resolution in NDE systems using superconducting sensors

Author

Seidel, P. ; Wunderlich, S. ; Schmidl, F. ; Dörrer, L. ; Linzen, S. ; Schmidt, F. ; Schrey, F. ; Steigmeier, C. ; Peiselt, K. ; Muller, S. ; Förster, A. ; Lösche, S. ; Gudochnikov, S.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Festkorperphys., Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Jena, Germany

Volume

11

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1176

Lastpage

1179

Abstract

We present a NDE scanning system for industrial purposes in magnetically and electrically unshielded environment. In this scanning system, planar galvanically coupled dc SQUID gradiometers with a field gradient resolution of 300 fT.(cmHz^½) in the white noise region are used. The spatial resolution is above 1 mm in this case. On the other hand many applications in NDE do not require the extraordinary sensitivity of SQUID based sensors. For those purposes hybrid sensors, in which Hall sensors are connected with high-T_c superconducting antennas, are an alternative sensor concept less sensitive than SQUID sensors but exhibiting better performance compared to other commercially available magnetic field sensors

Keywords

Hall effect devices; SQUID magnetometers; nondestructive testing; superconducting device noise; white noise; Hall sensor; NDE scanning system; field resolution; high-T_c superconducting antenna; hybrid sensor; magnetic field sensor; planar galvanically coupled DC SQUID gradiometer; spatial resolution; superconducting sensor; white noise; High temperature superconductors; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic sensors; SQUIDs; Sensor systems; Spatial resolution; Superconducting magnets; Temperature sensors; Type II superconductors; White noise;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.919558

Filename

919558