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Nagayoshi, K. (author), de Wit, M. (author), Taralli, E. (author), Visser, S. (author), Ridder, M. L. (author), Gottardi, L. (author), Akamatsu, H. (author), Vaccaro, D. (author), Gao, J.R. (author)We report measured T<sub>c</sub> of superconducting Ti/Au bilayer strips with a width W varying from 5 to 50 µm. The strips were fabricated based on a Ti/Au bilayer that consists of a 41-nm-thick Ti layer to which a 280-nm-thick Au layer was added. We find that the T<sub>c</sub> drops as W decreases and the declining trend almost perfectly...journal article 2022
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de Wit, Martin (author), Gottardi, L (author), Nagayoshi, K. (author), Akamatsu, H. (author), de Bruijn, M.P. (author), Ridder, M.L. (author), Taralli, E. (author), Vaccaro, D. (author), Gao, J.R. (author)In the early 2030s, ESAs new X-ray observatory, Athena, is scheduled to be launched. It will carry two main<br/>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 several thousand transition-edge sensors (TESs) with a proposed energy resolution of 2.5 eV for photon...conference paper 2022
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Development of a Ti/Au TES Microcalorimeter Array as a Backup Sensor for the Athena/X-IFU InstrumentNagayoshi, K. (author), Ridder, M. L. (author), Bruijn, M. P. (author), Gottardi, L. (author), Taralli, E. (author), Khosropanah, P. (author), Akamatsu, H. (author), Visser, S. (author), Gao, J.R. (author)We are developing a transition edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeter array based on a Ti/Au superconducting bilayer, as a backup option for the X-IFU instrument on the Athena X-ray observatory. The array is read out by a frequency-division multiplexing readout system using a 1–5 MHz frequency band. Extensive research collaborations between NASA...journal article 2019