Soft X-Ray performance of superconducting tunnel junction arrays

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 3, 1999, Pages 3342-3345

  Verhoeve, P ^a   Kraft, S ^a   Rando, N ^a   Peacock, A ^a   Van Dordrecht, A ^b   Den Hartog, R ^b   Goldic, D J ^b   Hart, R ^b   Glowacka, D ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLASMA TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CHARGE CARRIERS; CROSSTALK; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRODES; PHOTONS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; TANTALUM; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; X RAYS;

GROUND BASED OPTICAL ASTRONOMY; JOSEPHSON CURRENT SUPPRESSION; PHOTON COUNTING; QUASIPARTICLES; RISETIME FILTERING; SOFT X RAY; SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNEL JUNCTION ARRAYS; UNIFORM RESPONSIVITY;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0032660513     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.783745     Document Type: Article

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