Development of position-sensitive transition-edge sensor X-ray detectors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 451-455

  Smith, Stephen James ^a   Bandler, Simon R ^b   Brekosky, Regis P ^c   Brown, Ari David ^a   Chervenak, Jay A ^a   Eckart, Megan E ^a   Figueroa Feliciano, Encetali ^d   Finkbeiner, Fred M ^e   Kelley, Richard L ^a   Kilbourne, Caroline A ^a   Porter, Frederick Scott ^a   Sadleir, John E ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydra; Microcalorimeter; Position sensitive detector; Transition edge sensor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX IMPEDANCE; DEVICE PARAMETERS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FOCAL PLANES; HYDRA; LOW NOISE; MICROCALORIMETER; NOISE SPECTRA; NUMERICAL MODELS; POSITION SENSITIVE; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTOR; POST-DEVELOPMENT; PULSE SHAPES; READOUT CHANNELS; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; THERMAL COUPLING; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSOR; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS; X-RAY ASTRONOMY; X-RAY DETECTOR; X-RAY OBSERVATORY;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; DETECTORS; NASA; OPTICAL SENSORS; POLYMER BLENDS; SPACE FLIGHT; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

NANOSENSORS;

EID: 68649092739     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2019557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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