The interaction of a nuclear particle or x-ray with a superconductor leads to the breaking of
Cooper pairs and the creation of excess quasi-particles and phonons. Under certain …

We have developed a prototype X‐ray microcalorimeter spectrometer with high energy
resolution for use in X‐ray microanalysis. The microcalorimeter spectrometer system …

A multiple-analyser-crystal spectrometer for non-resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
spectroscopy installed at beamline ID16 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is …

Time-of-flight mass spectrometry—most notably matrix-assisted laser-desorption-ionization
time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) spectrometry 1—is an important class of techniques for the study …

We present experimental results obtained with a cryogenically cooled, high-resolution x-ray
spectrometer based on a 141 μm× 141 μm Nb-Al-Al 2 O 3-Al-Nb superconducting tunnel …

Analytical instruments or scientific instruments are indispensable for scientific research and
industry. The analytical instruments require a detector that converts physical quantities to be …

We have studied the propagation of quasiparticles in a superconducting film which is
penetrated by a magnetic field. We inject quasiparticles into an Al film at 75 mK using a …

We have probed the inelastic relaxation of gap-edge quasiparticles in a superconductor to
conduction electrons in an adjoining normal metal. Quasiparticles are injected into a …

A generalized model for the critical temperature TC of superconducting bilayers is
presented, which is valid with no restrictions to film thicknesses, TC of the layers, and …

Point contact spectroscopy is commonly used to investigate electronic properties of
superconductors. Here we show that nanometer scale point contacts, which enable to study …