Abstract

We examine the behavior of low frequency flux noise measured in ten Nb - NbOx - PbIn dc SQUIDs in the temperature range 1 K to 20 mK. As previously reported, the flux noise power spectrum S-Phi(f) typically scales with frequency as A/f(alpha). Remarkably, the excess noise power A at 1 Hz increases as the temperature is decreased below about 0.7 K, saturating to a value around (10 mu Phi(o))(2)/Hz below about 0.2 K. Here we report on the dependence of both the magnitude A and the slope alpha on the size and linewidth of the SQUID loops. In particular, at the lowest temperatures we find that alpha declines to values as low as 0.5 in the smallest devices, while alpha is in the range 0.9-1 for the largest devices.

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2011
Volume
21
Number of Pages
856-859
DOI
10.1109/tasc.2010.2093092
Journal
Ieee Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Contributors