Squid microscope

US6583619B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Egon Zimmermann · Eschweiler, DE
• Helmut Soltner · Jülich, DE
• Walter Glaas · Elsdorf, DE
• Horst Halling · Pier, DE
• Mikkail Faley · Jülich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 25, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 24, 2003
• Expiry date: Oct 25, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S505/846
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In order to measure magnetic characteristics of a sample, the latter is positioned above the SQUID so that both the SQUID and the sample are supported in a vessel in a gaseous nitrogen space above a liquid nitrogen coolant so that the measurement can take place at ambient pressure and in a nitrogen atmosphere.