3D printing a SQUID detector (can detect extremely faint magnetic fields, monitoring brain signals and geophysics, hunting for ore deposits)

[HAL9000]

3D printing a SQUID detector. SQUID stands for, superconducting quantum interference device. They can detect extremely faint magnetic fields, applications include monitoring brain signals and geophysics, hunting for ore deposits.




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Physicists invent printable superconducting device

Superconducting devices such as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interferometry Device) can perform ultra-sensitive measurements of magnetic fields. Leiden physicsts invented a method to 3-D-print these and other superconducting devices in minutes.

phys.org

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Disappointed that it can't detect squids.

 

[two sheds]

are you sure about that?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

are you sure about that?

Not sure if it could pick up neural signals from squids swimming about to somehow triangulate their location.

 

[Mation]

3D printing a SQUID detector. SQUID stands for, superconducting quantum interference device. They can detect extremely faint magnetic fields, applications include monitoring brain signals and geophysics, hunting for ore deposits.




Text version..

Physicists invent printable superconducting device

Superconducting devices such as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interferometry Device) can perform ultra-sensitive measurements of magnetic fields. Leiden physicsts invented a method to 3-D-print these and other superconducting devices in minutes.

phys.org

This is wonderful and that video is very watchable.
I've long thought that 3D printers are going to become Star Trek-like replicators and teleportation devices. I wonder if this is a step towards building the next generation (arf) of them.

How amazing to be the bachelor's student. Not even Ph fucking D!