Fabrication of Mo/Au transition-edge sensors for X-ray spectrometry

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 11, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 755-758

  Tralshawala, Nilesh ^a,b   Brekosky, Regis P ^a,c   Li, Mary J ^a,b   Figueroa Feliciano, Enectali ^a,d   Finkbeiner, Fred M ^a,e   Lindeman, Mark A ^a,f   Stahle, Carl M ^a   Stahle, Caroline K ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f NAS/NRC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Microcalorimeter; Proximity effect; Superconducting transition edge sensors

Indexed keywords

MICROCALORIMETER; PROXIMITY EFFECT; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION EDGE SENSORS;

SENSORS; SILICON NITRIDE; SPECTROMETRY; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0035269120     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.919455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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