We develop superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeter focal planes for
versatility in meeting the specifications of X-ray imaging spectrometers, including high count …

We are developing small-pixel transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters for solar physics
and astrophysics applications. These large format close-packed arrays are fabricated on …

We are developing superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters for
astronomical x-ray spectroscopy. We have obtained very high energy resolution (2.4 eV at …

We have been developing x-ray microcalorimeters for the Constellation-X mission. Devices
based on superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) have demonstrated the potential …

Transition-edge sensor microcalorimeter arrays in compact geometries and large formats
experience local heating from bias power and x-ray hits that must be dissipated in the frame …

Individual x-ray calorimeters based on superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) have
already demonstrated the spectral resolution, speed, and quantum efficiency needed for …

The state-of-the-art technology of X-ray microcalorimeters based on superconducting
transition-edge sensors (TESs), for applications in astrophysics and particle physics, is …

Superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters are being developed for a
variety of potential astrophysics missions, including Athena. The X-ray integral field unit …

Microcalorimeters have the potential to provide line shapes well described by a single
Gaussian broadening term of few-eV width. This attribute makes the detectors especially …

The Micro-X sounding rocket program will fly a 128-pixel array of transition-edge-sensor
microcalorimeters to enable high-resolution X-ray imaging spectroscopy of supernova …