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A four-pixel single-photon pulse-position array fabricated from WSi superconducting nanowire single- photon detectors

February 3, 2014
Author(s)
Varun B. Verma, Robert D. Horansky, Francesco Marsili, Jeffrey Stern, Matthew Shaw, Adriana E. Lita, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate a scalable readout scheme for an infrared single-photon pulse-position camera consisting of WSi superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. For an N × N array, only 2 × N wires are required to obtain the position of a detection event

Identification and elimination of anomalous thermal decay in gamma-ray microcalorimeters

November 18, 2013
Author(s)
Robert D. Horansky, Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel R. Schmidt, Barry L. Zink, Joel N. Ullom
Microcalorimeter detectors rely on superconducting components and cryogenic temperatures to provide over an order-of-magnitude improvement in energy resolution compared to semiconducting sensors. Resolution improvements impact fields from gamma-ray

High resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed TES array

November 11, 2013
Author(s)
Omid Noroozian, John A. Mates, Douglas A. Bennett, Justus A. Brevik, Joseph W. Fowler, Jiansong Gao, Robert D. Horansky, Kent D. Irwin, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom, Zhao Kang
We demonstrate the first gamma-ray spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed two-pixel TES(transition-edge sensor) array. We measured a $^{153}$Gd photon source and achieved an energy resolution of 63 eV full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) at 97 keV and an

Lattice damage in superconducting microcalorimeter detectors

June 3, 2013
Author(s)
Robert D. Horansky, Joel N. Ullom, Michael W. Rabin
There is currently significant interest in using superconducting detectors for measurement of ion kinetic energies. Unprecedented resolution is possible with an order of magnitude improvement over semiconductors. Superconducting detectors are now able to

Operation of gamma-ray microcalorimeters at elevated count rates using filters with constraints

May 15, 2013
Author(s)
Bradley K. Alpert, Robert D. Horansky, Douglas A. Bennett, William B. Doriese, Joseph W. Fowler, Andrew Hoover, Michael W. Rabin, Joel N. Ullom
We introduce a filter construction method for pulse processing that differs in two respects from that in standard optimal filtering, in which the average pulse shape and noise power spectral density are combined to create a convolution filter for

A high resolution gamma-ray spectrometer based on superconducting microcalorimeters

September 28, 2012
Author(s)
Douglas A. Bennett, Robert D. Horansky, Daniel R. Schmidt, Andrew Hoover, Ryan Winkler, Bradley K. Alpert, James A. Beall, William B. Doriese, Joseph W. Fowler, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Nathan J. Hoteling, Vincent Y. Kotsubo, John A. Mates, Galen C. O'Neil, Michael W. Rabin, Carl D. Reintsema, Francis J. Schima, Daniel S. Swetz, Leila R. Vale, Joel N. Ullom
Improvements in superconductor device fabrication, detector hybridization techniques, and superconducting quantum interference device readout have made square-centimeter-sized arrays of gammaray microcalorimeters, based on transition-edge sensors (TESs)

A two-fluid model for the transition shape in transition-edge sensors

May 1, 2012
Author(s)
Douglas A. Bennett, Daniel S. Swetz, Robert D. Horansky, Daniel R. Schmidt, Joel N. Ullom
Superconducting microcalorimeters based on transition-edge sensors (TESs) are being successfully used in applications ranging from optical photon counting to gamma-ray and alpha particle spectroscopy. Practical instruments often require a complex

An Analytical Model for Pulse Shape and Electrothermal Stability in Two-Body Microcalorimeters

September 9, 2010
Author(s)
Douglas A. Bennett, Robert D. Horansky, Daniel R. Schmidt, Daniel S. Swetz, Leila R. Vale, Joel N. Ullom, Andrew Hoover, Michael W. Rabin, Nathan J. Hoteling
High resolution superconducting gamma-ray sensors show potential for the more accurate analysis of nuclear material. These devices are part of a larger class of microcalorimeters and bolometers based on transition edge sensors (TESs) that have two distinct

A 350-GHz high-resolution high-sensitivity passive video imaging system

April 27, 2010
Author(s)
Daniel T. Becker, James A. Beall, Hsiao-Mei Cho, William Duncan, Kent D. Irwin, Gene C. Hilton, Robert D. Horansky, Peter J. Lowell, Michael D. Niemack, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Carl D. Reintsema, Francis J. Schima, Robert E. Schwall, Ki W. Yoon, Peter Ade, Carole Tucker, Simon Dicker, Mark Halpern
We are developing a 350 GHz cryogenic passive video imaging system. This demonstration system uses 800 photon-noise-limited superconducting transition edge sensor bolometers. It will image a 1 m x 1 m area at a standoff distance of 16 m to a resolution of

Two-Body Models for Analyzing Complex Impedance

July 24, 2009
Author(s)
Douglas A. Bennett, Robert D. Horansky, Joel N. Ullom
Complex impedance is an important and widely used technique for characterizing microbolometers and microcalorimeters. Often, complex impedance data from actual devices does not fit the simple one-body model of a TES microcalorimeter. In this paper we will

Anomalous thermal behavior in microcalorimeter gamma-ray detectors

July 20, 2009
Author(s)
Robert D. Horansky, James A. Beall, Kent D. Irwin, Joel N. Ullom
Improving the resolution of gamma-ray detectors is important for many fields, including determinations of the Lamb shift in atoms with high atomic numbers , nuclear treaty verification , and environmental monitoring. High-purity germanium detectors are

Improved Isotopic Analysis With a Large Array of Gamma-Ray Microcalorimeters

June 30, 2009
Author(s)
Nikhil Jethava, Joel N. Ullom, Douglas A. Bennett, William B. Doriese, James A. Beall, Gene C. Hilton, Robert D. Horansky, Kent D. Irwin, Eric Sassi, Leila R. Vale, Minesh K. Bacrania, Andrew Hoover, P. J. Karpius, Michael W. Rabin, Clifford R. Rudy, Duc T. Vo
We present results from the largest array of gamma-ray microcalorimeters operated to date. The microcalorimeters consist of Mo/Cu transition-edge sensors with attached Sn absorbers. The detector array contains 66 pixels each with an active area 2.25 mm 2

Improved Isotopic Analysis with a Large Array of Gamma-ray Microcalorimeters

June 30, 2009
Author(s)
Nikhil Jethava, Joel N. Ullom, Douglas A. Bennett, William B. Doriese, James A. Beall, Gene C. Hilton, Robert D. Horansky, Kent D. Irwin, Eric Sassi
We present results from the largest array of gamma-ray microcalorimeters operated to date. The microcalorimeters consist of Mo/Cu transition-edge sensors with attached Sn absorbers. The detector array contains 66 pixels each with an active area 2.25 mm2