A superconducting quantum magnetometer for high-sensitivity applications has been developed by exploiting the flux focusing of the superconducting loop. Unlike conventional dc SQUID magnetometers that use a superconducting flux transformer or a multiloop design, in this case, a very simple design has been employed. It consists of a bare dc SQUID with a large washer-shaped superconducting ring in order to guarantee a magnetic field sensitivity B less than one nT/Φ. The degradation of the characteristics of the device due to an inevitable high value of the inductance parameter β was successfully compensated by damping the inductance of the dc SQUID. The size of the magnetometer, coinciding with that of the washer, is 5 × 5 mm and the spectral density of the magnetic field noise is 8 fT/√Hz with a low frequency noise knee of two Hz. The excellent performance of this simple magnetometer makes it usable for all high-sensitivity applications including magnetoencephalography.

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