Published March 11, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Photon energy dependence of spatial non-uniformity in super-conducting tunnel junction detectors between 200 ev and 10 keV

Description

It has been demonstrated by Low-Temperature Scanning Synchrotron Microscope that the spatial profiles of Nb/Al/AlOx/Al/Nb detectors are abnormally large in an energy range between 2 and 10 keV, and thus the detectors produce no clear total absorption peaks. Below 2 keV, on the other hand, full illumination experiments have afforded the evidence that the spatial uniformity is significantly improved, for example, an 100 μm square junction has an intrinsic energy resolution of 5.4 eV at 200 eV. These results reconfirm that carefully designed junction detectors with a reasonable size are ideal for energy-dispersive spectroscopy in a soft X-ray range

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.331;
PII
S0168900203032054;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
520
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 231-233
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
10. international workshop on low temperature detectors
Dates
7-11 Jul 2003
Place
Genoa (Italy)

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Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.