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The Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) is an extremely sensitive device which is used to measure the energy of individual X-ray photons. For astronomical spectrometry applications, SRON develops a Frequency Domain Multiplexing (FDM) read-out…

We report initial measurements on our firstMoAu Transition Edge Sensors (TESs). The TESs formed from a bilayer of 40 nm of Mo and 106 nm of Au showed transition temperatures of about 320 mK, higher than identical TESs with a MoCu bilayer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-01-13 D. J. Goldie , A. V. Velichko , D. M. Glowacka , S. Withington

In the early 2030s, ESAs new X-ray observatory, Athena, is scheduled to be launched. It will carry two main instruments, one of which is the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU), an X-ray imaging spectrometer, which will consist of an array of…

We present X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements on the iron L-edge of 0.5 mM aqueous ferricyanide. These measurements demonstrate the ability of high-throughput transition-edge-sensor…

The Transition-Edge Sensors (TES) is a mature, high-resolution x-ray spectrometer technology that provides a much higher efficiency than dispersive spectrometers such as gratings and crystal spectrometers. As larger arrays are developed,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-08 K. D. Irwin , S. Chaudhuri , H. -M. Cho , C. Dawson , S. Kuenstner , D. Li , C. J. Titus , B. A. Young

We present a comprehensive analysis of high-resolution transition-edge sensors (TESs) as a quantum sensing platform for detecting dark matter (DM). Operating near the thermodynamic noise limit with sub-eV energy resolution, TESs offer a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Muping Chen , Volodymyr Takhistov , Kazunori Nakayama , Kaori Hattori

The measurement of shifts in the energy of X-ray emission lines is important for understanding the electronic structure and physical properties of materials. In this study, we demonstrate a method using a synchrotron source to introduce…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-19 Tejas Guruswamy , Orlando Quaranta , Lisa Gades , Umeshkumar Patel , Antonino Miceli

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 reviewed. We will show the advance in understanding the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-14 Luciano Gottardi , Kenichiro Nagayoshi

Optical transition-edge sensors have shown energy resolution for resolving the number of incident photons at the telecommunication wavelength. Higher energy resolution is required for biological imaging and microscope spectroscopy. In this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-27 Kaori Hattori , Toshio Konno , Yoshitaka Miura , Sachiko Takasu , Daiji Fukuda

The superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) is a critical technology for next-generation X-ray spectrometers, known for its exceptional energy resolution. In the last decade, TESs based on AlMn alloy films have been extensively used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Liangpeng Xie , Yifei Zhang , Zhengwei Li , Zhouhui Liu , Shibo Shu , Junjie Zhou , Xufang Li , Haoyu Li , He Gao , Yudong Gu , Xuefeng Lu , Yong Zhao , Congzhan Liu

Superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters have great utility in x-ray applications owing to their high energy resolution, good collecting efficiency and the feasibility of being multiplexed into large arrays. In this…

Transition-edge sensors (TES) are photon-number resolving calorimetric spectrometers with near unit efficiency. Their recovery time, which is on the order of microseconds, limits the number resolving ability and timing accuracy in high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-21 Jianwei Lee , Lijiong Shen , Alessandro Cerè , Thomas Gerrits , Adriana E. Lita , Sae Woo Nam , Christian Kurtsiefer

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) can be used in high-resolution photon detection, exploiting the steep slope of the resistance in the superconducting-to-normal transition edge. Normal metal bars on the TES film are commonly used to engineer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Daikang Yan , Lisa M. Gades , Tejas Guruswamy , Antonino Miceli , Umeshkumar M. Patel , Orlando Quaranta

Calorimetric decay energy spectroscopy of electron-capture-decaying isotopes is a promising method to achieve the sensitivity required for electron neutrino mass measurement. The very low total nuclear decay energy (QEC < 3 keV) and short…

We have fabricated Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) whose thermal characteristics are completely characterised by few-mode ballistic phonon exchange with the heat bath. These TESs have extremely small amorphous SiNx support legs: 0.2 um…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Djelal Osman , Stafford Withington , David J Goldie , Dorota M Glowacka

Uniform large transition-edge sensor (TES) arrays are fundamental for the next generation of X-ray space observatories. These arrays are required to achieve an energy resolution $\Delta E$ < 3 eV full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) in the soft…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 E. Taralli , M. D'Andrea , L. Gottardi , K. Nagayoshi , M. L. Ridder , M. de Wit , D. Vaccaro , H. Akamatsu , M. P. Bruijn , J. R. Gao

Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are characterized by the intrinsic figure of merit to resolve both the energy and the statistical distribution of the incident photons. These properties lead TES devices to become the best single photon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-06-25 L. Lolli , E. Taralli , C. Portesi , E. Monticone , M. Rajteri

Transition-edge sensors (TES) as microcalorimeters for high-energy-resolution X-ray spectroscopy are often fabricated with an absorber made of materials with high Z (for X-ray stopping power) and low heat capacity (for high resolving…

Far-infrared Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are being developed for the SAFARI grating spectrometer on the cooled-aperture space telescope SPICA. In support of this work, we have devised a cryogenic (90 mK) test facility for carrying out…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Emily A. Williams , Stafford Withington , David J. Goldie , Christopher N. Thomas , Peter A. R. Ade , Rashmi Sudiwala