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Quantum Sensors Division Publications (2023-2020)

2004 - 2000 publications | 2009 - 2005 publications2014 - 2010 publications2019 - 2015 publications

A Tabletop X-Ray Tomography Instrument for Nanometer-Scale Imaging: Reconstruction
APRIL 14, 2023
AUTHOR(S): ZACHARY H. LEVINE, BRADLEY ALPERT, AMBER DAGEL, JOSEPH FOWLER, EDWARD JIMINEZ, NATHAN J. NAKAMURA, DANIEL SWETZ, PAUL SZYPRYT, KYLE THOMPSON, JOEL ULLOM
Citation: Microsystems & Nanoengineering

Role of Non-Temperature-Gradient Power Flow Terms in Low-Temperature Regenerator
DECEMBER 1, 2022
AUTHOR(S): RYAN SNODGRASS, JOEL ULLOM, SCOTT BACKHAUS
Proceedings Title: Cryocoolers 22

Performance of a Miniature, Closed-Cycle Dilution Refrigerator at Tilt Angles between 0 and 30 Degrees
DECEMBER 1, 2022
AUTHOR(S): RYAN SNODGRASS, JOEL ULLOM, SCOTT BACKHAUS
Proceedings Title: Cryocoolers 22

The potential of microcalorimeter x-ray spectrometers for measurement of relative fluorescence line intensities
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
AUTHOR(S): JOSEPH FOWLER, LUIS MIAJA AVILA, GALEN O'NEIL, JOEL ULLOM, HOPE WHITELOCK, DANIEL SWETZ
Citation: Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Energy calibration of nonlinear sensors with uncertainty estimates from Gaussian Process Regression
AUGUST 22, 2022
AUTHOR(S): JOSEPH FOWLER, BRADLEY ALPERT, GALEN O'NEIL, DANIEL SWETZ, JOEL ULLOM
Citation: Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Optimal absorption of distributed and conductive heat loads with cryocooler regenerator
JULY 13, 2022
AUTHOR(S): RYAN SNODGRASS, JOEL ULLOM, SCOTT BACKHAUS
Proceedings Title: Advances in Cryogenic Engineering: Proceedings of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference (CEC) 2021

Indium Bump Process for Low-Temperature Detectors and Readout
MAY 20, 2022
AUTHOR(S): TAMMY LUCAS, JOHN BIESECKER, W.BERTRAND (RANDY) DORIESE, SHANNON DUFF, GENE C. HILTON, JOEL ULLOM, MICHAEL VISSERS, DAN SCHMIDT
Citation: The proceedings of LTD-19 will be published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Direct cooling from the regenerators of Gifford-McMahon cryocoolers, with comparison to pulse tube refrigerators
MAY 5, 2022
AUTHOR(S): RYAN SNODGRASS, JOEL ULLOM
Citation: Cryogenics

Generic character of charge and spin density waves in superconducting cuprates
APRIL 4, 2022
AUTHOR(S): SANGJUN LEE, EDWIN HUANG, THOMAS JOHNSON, XUEFEI GUO, ALI HUSAIN, MATTEO MITRANO, KANNAN LU, ALEXANDER ZAKRZEWSKI, GILBERTO DE LA PENA, YINGYING PENG, HAI HUANG, SANG-JUN LEE, HOYOUNG JANG, JUN-SIK LEE, YOUNG JOE, W.BERTRAND (RANDY) DORIESE, PAUL SZYPRYT, DANIEL SWETZ, SONGXUE CHI, ADAM ACZEL, GREGORY MACDOUGALL, STEVEN KIVELSON, EDUARDO FRADKIN, PETER ABBAMONTE
Citation: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Toward a New Primary Standardization of Radionuclide Massic Activity Using Microcalorimetry and Quantitative Milligram-Scale Samples
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
AUTHOR(S): RYAN P. FITZGERALD, BRADLEY ALPERT, DAN BECKER, DENIS E. BERGERON, RICHARD ESSEX, KELSEY MORGAN, SVETLANA NOUR, GALEN O'NEIL, DAN SCHMIDT, GORDON A. SHAW, DANIEL SWETZ, R. MICHAEL VERKOUTEREN, DAIKANG YAN
Citation: Journal of Research (NIST JRES)

Brominated nanoscale diamond enables room temperature and catalysis free functionalization chemistry
JANUARY 27, 2022
AUTHOR(S): CYNTHIA MELENDREZ, JORGE LOPEZ-ROSAS, TSZ CHEUNG, CAMRON STOKES, SANG-JUN LEE, JAN VAVRA, HELENA RAABOVA, VACLAV VANEK, SAMI SAINIO, DENNIS NORDLUND, W.BERTRAND (RANDY) DORIESE, GALEN O'NEIL, DANIEL SWETZ, JOEL ULLOM, KENT IRWIN, PETER CIGLER, POLO TRAN, HALIM MUHAMMAD, VIRGINIA ALTOE, CHARLES TITUS, JOCELYN VALENZUELA, GRACE JEANPIERRE, ABRAHAM WOLCOTT
Citation: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Sub-kelvin thermometer for on-chip measurements of microwave devices utilizing two-level systems in superconducting microresonators
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
AUTHOR(S): JORDAN WHEELER, MICHAEL VISSERS, MAXIME MALNOU, JOHANNES HUBMAYR, JOEL ULLOM, JIANSONG GAO
Citation: Applied Physics Letters

Transition-Edge Sensors
OCTOBER 12, 2021
AUTHOR(S)
KENT D. IRWIN, GENE C. HILTON
Citation: Cryogenic Particle Detection

Proceedings of the 2nd CREST Nano-Virtual-Labs Joint Workshop on Superconductivit
OCTOBER 12, 2021
AUTHOR(S): KENT D. IRWIN, JAMES A. BEALL, W.BERTRAND (RANDY) DORIESE, WILLIAM DUNCAN, S. L. FERREIRA, GENE C. HILTON, ROB HORANSKY, JOHN MATES, NATHAN A. TOMLIN, GALEN O'NEIL, CARL D. REINTSEMA, DAN SCHMIDT, JOEL ULLOM, LEILA R. VALE
Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 2nd CREST Nano-Virtual-Labs Joint Workshop on Superconductivity

Design of a 3000 pixel transition-edge sensor x-ray spectrometer for microcircuit tomograph
AUGUST 1, 2021
AUTHOR(S): PAUL SZYPRYT, DOUGLAS BENNETT, WILLIAM J. BOONE, AMBER L. DAGEL, G DALTON, WILLIAM DORIESE, MALCOLM DURKIN, JOSEPH FOWLER, EDWARD GARBOCZI, JONATHON D. GARD, GENE HILTON, JOZSEF IMREK, E S. JIMENEZ, VINCENT Y. KOTSUBO, K LARSON, ZACHARY H. LEVINE, JOHN MATES, D MCARTHUR, KELSEY MORGAN, NATHAN J. NAKAMURA, GALEN O'NEIL, NATHAN ORTIZ, CHRISTINE G. PAPPAS, CARL REINTSEMA, DAN SCHMIDT, DANIEL SWETZ, K R. THOMPSON, JOEL ULLOM, C WALKER, JOEL C. WEBER, ABIGAIL WESSELS, J W. WHEELER
Citation: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

De-excitation dynamics of muonic atoms revealed by high precision spectroscopy of electronic K x rays using a superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeter
JULY 27, 2021
AUTHOR(S): DOUGLAS BENNETT, W.BERTRAND (RANDY) DORIESE, MALCOLM DURKIN, JOSEPH FOWLER, JOHNATHON GARD, GENE C. HILTON, KELSEY MORGAN, GALEN O'NEIL, CARL D. REINTSEMA, DAN SCHMIDT, DANIEL SWETZ, JOEL ULLOM, TOSHIYUKI AZUMA, PIETRO CARADONNA, I-HUAN CHIU, TADASHI HASHIMOTO, RYOTA HAYAKAWA, YUTO ICHINOHE, PAUL INDELICATO, TADAAKI ISOBE, SOHTARO KANDA, DAIJI KATO, MIHO KATSURAGAWA, NARITOSHI KAWAMURA, YASUSHI KINO, KENYA KUBO, KAIRI MINE, YASUHIRO MIYAKE, KAZUHIKO NINOMIYA, HIROFUMI NODA, SHINJI OKADA, TAKUMA OKUMURA, KENICHI OKUTSU, TAKAHITO OSAWA, NANCY PAUL, KOUICHIRO SHIMOMURA, PATRICK STRASSER, HIROTAKA SUDA, TADAYUKI TAKAHASHI, SHINICHIRO TAKEDA, SOSHI TAKESHITA, MOTONOBU TAMPO, HIDEYUKI TATSUNO, XIAOMIN TONG, YASUHIRO UENO, SHIN WATANABE, SHINYA YAMADA
Citation: Physical Review Letters

A Model for Excess Johnson Noise in Superconducting Transition-edge Sensors
MAY 18, 2021
AUTHOR(S): ABIGAIL WESSELS, KELSEY MORGAN, DAN BECKER, JOHNATHON GARD, GENE C. HILTON, JOHN MATES, CARL D. REINTSEMA, DAN SCHMIDT, DANIEL SWETZ, JOEL ULLOM, LEILA R. VALE, DOUGLAS BENNETT
Citation: Applied Physics Letters

Gamma and Decay Energy Spectroscopy Measurements of Trinitite
APRIL 7, 2021
AUTHOR(S): DAVID MERCER, KATRINA KOEHLER, MARK CROCE, ANDREW HOOVER, PHILIP HYPES, STOSH KOZIMOR, VERONIKA MOCKO, PAUL SAEY, DAN SCHMIDT, JOEL ULLOM
Citation: Nuclear Technology

Leveraging Real Fluid Effects as a Tool for Power Flow Measurements in 4 K Cryocooler Regenerators
APRIL 1, 2021
AUTHOR(S): RYAN SNODGRASS, VINCENT Y. KOTSUBO, JOEL ULLOM, SCOTT BACKHAUS
Proceedings Title: Cryocoolers 21

A Temperature Instability in 4 K Cryocooler Regenerators Caused by Real Fluid Propertie
APRIL 1, 2021
AUTHOR(S): RYAN SNODGRASS, VINCENT Y. KOTSUBO, JOEL ULLOM, SCOTT BACKHAUS
Proceedings Title: Cryocoolers 21

Absolute energies and emission line shapes of the x-ray lines of lanthanide metal
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
AUTHOR(S): JOSEPH FOWLER, GALEN O'NEIL, BRADLEY K. ALPERT, DOUGLAS BENNETT, EDWARD V. DENISON, WILLIAM DORIESE, GENE HILTON, LAWRENCE T. HUDSON, YOUNG I. JOE, KELSEY MORGAN, DANIEL SCHMIDT, DANIEL SWETZ, CSILLA I. SZABO-FOSTER, JOEL ULLOM
Citation: Metrologia

Broadband high-energy resolution hard x-ray spectroscopy using transition edge sensors at SPring-8
JANUARY 12, 2021
AUTHOR(S): SHINYA YAMADA, YUTO ICHINOHE, HIDEYUKI TATSUNO, RYOTA HAYAKAWA, HIROTAKA SUDA, TAKAYA OHASHI, YOSHITAKA ISHISAKI, TOMOYA URUGA, OKI SEKIZAWA, KIYOFUMI NITTA, YOSHIO TAKAHASHI, TAKAAKI ITAI, HIROKI SUGA, MAKOTO NAGASAWA, MASATO TANAKA, MINAKO KURISU, TADASHI HASHIMOTO, DOUGLAS BENNETT, EDWARD V. DENISON, W.BERTRAND (RANDY) DORIESE, MALCOLM DURKIN, JOSEPH FOWLER, GALEN O'NEIL, KELSEY MORGAN, DAN SCHMIDT, DANIEL SWETZ, JOEL ULLOM, LEILA R. VALE, SHINJI OKADA, TAKUMA OKUMURA, TOSHIYUKI AZUMA, TORU TAMAGAWA, TADAAKI ISOBE, SATOSHI KOHJIRO, HIROFUMI NODA, KEIGO TANAKA, AKIMICHI TAGUCHI, YUKI IMAI, KOSUKE SATO, TASUKU HAYASHI, TERUHIKO KASHIWABARA, KOHEI SAKATA
Citation: Review of Scientific Instruments

Improved plutonium and americium photon branching ratios from microcalorimeter gamma spectroscopy
OCTOBER 11, 2020
AUTHOR(S): M. D. YOHO, K. E. KOEHLER, DAN BECKER, DOUGLAS BENNETT, M. H. CARPENTER, M. P. CROCE, J. D. GARD, JOHN MATES, D. J. MERCER, NATHAN ORTIZ, DAN SCHMIDT, C. M. SMITH, DANIEL SWETZ, A. D. TOLLEFSON, JOEL ULLOM, LEILA R. VALE, ABIGAIL WESSELS, D. T. VO
Citation: Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A

Development of a transition-edge sensor bilayer process providing new modalities for critical temperature control
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
AUTHOR(S): JOEL WEBER, KELSEY MORGAN, DAIKANG YAN, CHRISTINE PAPPAS, ABIGAIL WESSELS, GALEN O'NEIL, DOUGLAS BENNETT, GENE C. HILTON, DANIEL SWETZ, JOEL ULLOM, DAN SCHMIDT
Citation: Superconductor Science and Technology

Measurement of the 2P1/2-2P3/2 fine structure splitting in fluorine-like Kr, W, Re, Os and Ir
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
AUTHOR(S): GALEN O'NEIL, SAMUEL C. SANDERS, PAUL SZYPRYT, DIPTI GOYAL, AMY GALL, YANG YANG, SAMUEL M. BREWER, W.BERTRAND (RANDY) DORIESE, JOSEPH FOWLER, DANIEL SWETZ, JOSEPH N. TAN, JOEL ULLOM, ANDREY V. VOLOTKA, ENDRE TAKACS, YURI RALCHENKO
Citation: Physical Review A

Valence-to-core x-ray emission spectroscopy of titanium compounds using energy dispersive detectors
JUNE 26, 2020
AUTHOR(S): LUIS MIAJA AVILA, GALEN C. O'NEIL, YOUNG I. JOE, KELSEY M. MORGAN, JOSEPH W. FOWLER, WILLIAM B. DORIESE, BRIANNA GANLY, DEYU LU, BRUCE D. RAVEL, DANIEL S. SWETZ, JOEL N. ULLOM
Citation: Inorganic Chemistry

Compact 1.7 K Cryocooler for Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
JUNE 18, 2020
AUTHOR(S): VINCENT Y. KOTSUBO, JOEL N. ULLOM, SAE WOO NAM
Proceedings Title: Cryocoolers 20

A Predictive Control Algorithm for Time-Division-Multiplexed Readout of TES Microcalorimeters
JANUARY 28, 2020
AUTHOR(S): MALCOLM S. DURKIN, GALEN C. O'NEIL, WILLIAM B. DORIESE, JOHNATHON D. GARD, GENE C. HILTON, JOZSEF IMREK, NATHAN J. ORTIZ, CARL D. REINTSEMA, ROBERT W. STEVENS, DANIEL S. SWETZ, JOEL N. ULLOM
Citation: Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Demonstration of 220/280 GHz Multichroic Feedhorn-Coupled TES Polarimeter
JANUARY 3, 2020
AUTHOR(S): SAMANTHA L. WALKER, CARLOS E. SIERRA, JASON E. AUSTERMANN, JAMES A. BEALL, DANIEL T. BECKER, BRADLEY J. DOBER, SHANNON M. DUFF, GENE C. HILTON, JOHANNES HUBMAYR, JEFFREY L. VAN LANEN, JEFF MCMAHON, SARA M. SIMON, JOEL N. ULLOM, MICHAEL R. VISSERS
Citation: Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Created April 19, 2023, Updated October 13, 2023