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Cryogenic differential amplifier for NMR applications

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-04-24 v2 Applied Physics

Abstract

We have designed and characterized a cryogenic amplifier for use in 3^3He NMR spectrometry. The amplifier, with a power consumption of 2.5\sim 2.5 mW, works at temperatures down to 4~K. It has a hi-impedance input for measuring a signal from NMR resonant circuit, and a 50 Ω\mathrm{\Omega} differential input which can be used for pick-up compensation and gain calibration. At 4.2 K, the amplifier has a voltage gain of 45, output resistance 146 Ω\mathrm{\Omega} and a 4.4 MHz bandwidth starting from DC. At 1 MHz, the voltage and current noise amount to 1.3 \mboxnV/\mboxHz\mbox{nV}/\sqrt{\mbox{Hz}} and 12 \mboxfA/\mboxHz\mbox{fA}/\sqrt{\mbox{Hz}}, respectively, which yields an optimal source impedance of 100\sim 100 kΩ\mathrm{\Omega}.

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@article{arxiv.1809.06649,
  title  = {Cryogenic differential amplifier for NMR applications},
  author = {V. V. Zavjalov and A. M. Savin and P. J. Hakonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06649},
  year   = {2019}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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