AC/DC Characterization of a Ti/Au TES with Au/Bi Absorber for X-ray Detection

E. Taralli, C. Pobes*, P. Khosropanah, L. Fabrega, A. Camón, L. Gottardi, K. Nagayoshi, M. L. Ridder, M. P. Bruijn, J. R. Gao

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Abstract

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) are used as very sensitive thermometers in microcalorimeters aimed at detection of different wavelengths. In particular, for soft X-ray astrophysics, science goals require very high-resolution microcalorimeters which can be achieved with TESs coupled to suitable absorbers. For many applications, there is also need for a high number of pixels which typically requires multiplexing in the readout stage. Frequency-domain multiplexing (FDM) is a common scheme and is the baseline proposed for the ATHENA mission. FDM requires biasing the TES in AC at MHz frequencies. Recently, there has been reported degradation in performances under AC with respect to DC bias. In order to assess the performances of TESs to be used with FDM, it is thus of great interest to compare the performances of the same device both under AC bias and DC bias. This requires two different measurement set-ups with different processes for making the characterization. We report in this work the preliminary results of a single-pixel characterization performed on a TiAu TES under AC and afterwards under DC bias in different facilities. Extraction of dynamical parameters and noise performances are compared in both cases as a first stage for further AC/DC comparison of these devices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)102-109
JournalJournal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume199
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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Keywords

  • AC bias and DC bias
  • Complex impedance
  • Transition-edge sensor

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