{"title":"Tantalum superconducting tunnel junctions for photon counting detectors","authors":"C. Jorel, P. Feautrier, J. Villégier, A. Benoit","doi":"10.1109/WOLTE.2002.1022469","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstracb This paper presents the fabrication of Ta Superconducting Tunnel Junction detector working at 0.2 K to be used for photon counting instruments in astronomical applications. We would like to operate this type of detectors up to 2.5 pm with a moderate energy resolution in order to offer innovative instrumental perspectives to the astronomical community. The Ta junction fabrication and characterization as well as photon counting experiments in the near-infrared are presented. Fabrication process improvements are discussed at the end of this paper.","PeriodicalId":338080,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Low Temperature Electronics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Low Temperature Electronics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WOLTE.2002.1022469","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstracb This paper presents the fabrication of Ta Superconducting Tunnel Junction detector working at 0.2 K to be used for photon counting instruments in astronomical applications. We would like to operate this type of detectors up to 2.5 pm with a moderate energy resolution in order to offer innovative instrumental perspectives to the astronomical community. The Ta junction fabrication and characterization as well as photon counting experiments in the near-infrared are presented. Fabrication process improvements are discussed at the end of this paper.