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Title: Transition-edge sensor with enhanced electrothermal feedback for cryogenic particle detection

Patent ·
OSTI ID:873648

A superconducting transition-edge sensor with an electrothermal-feedback circuit, a heat sink thermally coupled thereto, a bias-feedback circuit electrically coupled with the electrothermal feedback circuit, and a current sensor electrically coupled with the bias-feedback circuit and inductively coupled with the electrothermal-feedback circuit.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-90ER40565
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the LeLand Stanford Junior University (Stanford, CA)
Patent Number(s):
US 6211519
OSTI ID:
873648
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Tc tuning of tungsten transition edge sensors using iron implantation
  • Young, B. A.; Saab, T.; Cabrera, B.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 444, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(99)01400-X
journal April 2000