Physical principles of low temperature detectors: ultimate performance limits and current detector capabilities

C Enss, D Mccammon - Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2008 - Springer
The rapid development of low temperature thermal detectors since the early 1980s has
resulted in remarkable improvements in the sensitivity and precision of many types of …

High resolution x-ray transition-edge sensor cooled by tunnel junction refrigerators

NA Miller, GC O'Neil, JA Beall, GC Hilton… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate cooling of an x-ray transition-edge sensor (TES) using solid-state
refrigerators based on normal-metal/insulator/superconductor (NIS) tunnel junctions. We are …

[HTML][HTML] Complex impedance, responsivity and noise of transition-edge sensors: Analytical solutions for two-and three-block thermal models

IJ Maasilta - Aip Advances, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The responsivity and noise of a voltage-biased superconducting transition-edge sensor
depends strongly on the details of its thermal model, and the simplest theory for TES …

Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER

J Hubmayr, JE Austermann, JA Beall… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the balloon-borne
polarimeter spider. A primary science goal of spider is to measure the large-scale B-mode …

Thermal design and characterization of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers for frequency-domain multiplexing

M Lueker, BA Benson, CL Chang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In contemporary cosmic microwave background experiments, bolometric detectors are often
background limited, and in this case the sensitivity of instruments can only be improved by …

Advanced actpol tes device parameters and noise performance in fielded arrays

KT Crowley, JE Austermann, SK Choi, SM Duff… - Journal of Low …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) upgrade to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
(ACT) features arrays of aluminum manganese transition-edge sensors (TESes) optimized …

Characterization of transition edge sensors for the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Y Zhao, C Allen, M Amiri, JW Appel… - … for Astronomy IV, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) aims to measure the Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies on arcminute scales. The primary receiver for …

Normal metal-superconductor decoupling as a source of thermal fluctuation noise in transition-edge sensors

KM Kinnunen, MRJ Palosaari, IJ Maasilta - Journal of Applied Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We have studied the origin of excess noise in superconducting transition-edge sensors
(TES) with several different detector designs. We show that most of the observed noise and …

Mapping TES Temperature Sensitivity and Current Sensitivity as a Function of Temperature, Current, and Magnetic Field with IV Curve and Complex Admittance …

Y Zhou, CV Ambarish, R Gruenke, FT Jaeckel… - Journal of low …, 2018 - Springer
We have specialized astronomical applications for X-ray microcalorimeters with
superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs) that require exceptionally good TES …

[PDF][PDF] 基于钛相变边缘传感器的超导单光子探测器特性

耿悦, 钟家强, 李佩展, 张文, 王争, 周康敏, 任远… - 红外与毫米波 …, 2022 - researching.cn
研究了基于钛TES 的超导单光子探测器的特性, 器件尺寸范围为5 μm× 5 μm 到20 μm× 20 μm,
集成光学腔体后在1 550 nm 波长实测的系统探测效率最高达到72%, 最佳能量分辨率为0. 26 …