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

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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.

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This work is partly funded by European Space Agency (ESA) and coordinated with other European efforts under ESA CTP contract ITT AO/1-7947/14/NL/BW. It has also received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme under the AHEAD (Activities for the High-Energy Astrophysics Domain) project with grant agreement number 654215. CSIC work is financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades-MICINN (projects ESP2016-76683-C3-2-R and RTI2018-096686-B-C22). Personnel from ICMAB acknowledge financial support from MINECO, through the “Severo Ochoa” Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2015-0496).

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  1. SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    E. Taralli, P. Khosropanah, L. Gottardi, K. Nagayoshi, M. L. Ridder, M. P. Bruijn & J. R. Gao

  2. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (CSIC-University of Zaragoza), Pedro Cerbuna 12, Zaragoza, E-50009, Spain

    C. Pobes & A. Camón

  3. Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, E-08193, Spain

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  4. Faculty of Applied Science, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ, Delft, The Netherlands

    J. R. Gao

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Taralli, E., Pobes, C., Khosropanah, P. et al. AC/DC Characterization of a Ti/Au TES with Au/Bi Absorber for X-ray Detection. J Low Temp Phys 199, 102–109 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-020-02390-w

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