Superconductive tunnel junction detectors as x-ray spectrometers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2808, Issue , 1996, Pages 506-515

  De Korte, P A J ^a   Van Den Berg, M L ^a   Bruijn, M P ^a   Gomez, J ^a   Kiewiet, F ^a   Van Lieshout, H L ^a   Luiten, O J ^a   Brons, C G S ^b   Flokstra, J ^b   Hamster, A W ^b  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemical Polishing; Diffusion; Quasi particle losses; Superconductive Tunnel Junctions; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; DIFFUSION CONSTANT; HIGH-ENERGY RESOLUTION; IMAGING X-RAY SPECTROMETERS; QUASI PARTICLES; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SURFACE CONDITIONING; X-RAY DETECTOR;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL POLISHING; DIFFUSION; GAMMA RAYS; REFLECTION; SPECTROMETERS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

X RAYS;

EID: 5344256765     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.256023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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