The next generation of magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain scanners is now under development and one of the key enablers to produce lower cost, high performance machines is a nano electronic device designed at Royal Holloway by Professor Victor Petrashov in the Department of Physics.
The HyQUID is a novel development of the generic SQUID, Superconducting Quantum Interference Device, a very sensitive magnetic field detector. The HyQUID retains the sensitivity of the SQUID to magnetic field whilst having better overall performance characteristics and critically is simpler to fabricate and calibrate. One patent has already been granted and a second patent is currently being examined.
