LABORATORY INSTRUMENTATION

The dc Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) is the most sensitive detector of magnetic flux available, with an enormous frequency response extending from dc to several megahertz. For these reasons, dc SQUIDs are attractive for a wide variety of laboratory applications where the physical quantity to be measured can be converted to magnetic flux. Examples include high-resolution measurements of current, voltage, magnetic field or field gradient, gravitational field and magnetic susceptibility.

STARCryo dc SQUIDs and advanced PC-based SQUID control electronics products marketed under the trade name pcSQUID™ are in use at major university, government and corporate research laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia for a variety of basic and applied research applications.

A team of researchers at several European research institutions have selected STAR Cryoelectronics newest multi-channel pcSQUID™ electronics for their Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) experiment at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy. The CRESST experiment is being built to search for Weakly Interactive Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter using cryogenic detectors.