Published September 1, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Superconducting radiation detector by using a microfabricated MgB2 meander line

  • 1. Institute for Nanofabrication Research, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531 (Japan)
  • 2. Japan Science and Technology Agency - CREST 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012 (Japan)
  • 3. Technology Research Institute of Osaka Prefecture, 2-7-1 Ayumino, Izumi, Osaka 594-1157 (Japan)
  • 4. Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531 (Japan)
  • 5. Kansai Advanced Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 588-2 Iwaoka-cho, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-2429 (Japan)

Description

The thermal response of an MgB2 detector was examined by using the irradiation of a 20 ps pulse laser with the aid of ultra low-noise cryogenic preamplifier. High-quality MgB2 thin films were prepared by a sputtering technique. This device can be used as a novel neutron detector by employing the 10B(n,α)7Li nuclear reaction with a local energy release of 2.3 MeV. This would be able to count individual neutrons with a repetition rate much faster than 106 per second

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2007.04.126

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physc.2007.04.126;
PII
S0921-4534(07)00687-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. C, Superconductivity
Journal Volume
460-462
Journal Page Range
p. 618-619
ISSN
0921-4534
CODEN
PHYCE6

Conference

Title
8. international conference on materials and mechanisms of superconductivity and high temperature superconductors
Acronym
M2S-HTSC VIII
Dates
9-14 Jul 2006
Place
Dresden (Germany)

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.