A cryogenic imaging X-ray spectrometer for XEUS read out by frequency-division SQUID multiplexers

Piet A.J. De Korte; John J. Van Baar; Norman H.R. Baars; Frank E. Bakker; Wouter M.Bergmann Tiest; Marcel P. Bruijn; Alexander Germeau; Henk F.C. Hoevers; Mikko Kiviranta; Eric Krouwer; Jan Der Van Kuur; Marco P. Lubbers; Wim A. Mels; Marcel L. Ridder; Heikki Seppae; Remco J. Wiegerink

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A cryogenic imaging X-ray spectrometer for XEUS read out by frequency-division SQUID multiplexers

Piet A.J. De Korte^*, John J. Van Baar, Norman H.R. Baars, Frank E. Bakker, Wouter M.Bergmann Tiest, Marcel P. Bruijn, Alexander Germeau, Henk F.C. Hoevers, Mikko Kiviranta, Eric Krouwer, Jan Der Van Kuur, Marco P. Lubbers, Wim A. Mels, Marcel L. Ridder, Heikki Seppae, Remco J. Wiegerink

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A micro-calorimeter array with superconducting transition-edge sensors read out by a SQUID-based frequency-domain multiplexer is under development for the X-ray imaging spectrometer on board ESA's X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy (XEUS) mission. The XEUS requirements are 2 and 5 eV FWHM energy resolution for 2 and 7 keV X-rays, respectively. An array of 32 × 32 pixels with 250 micron square pixels is envisaged. SRON and MESA⁺ have developed 5 × 5 imaging micro-calorimeter prototype arrays along a bulk micromachining and a surface micromachining route. The present state of array design and development with emphasis on pixel-to-pixel performance measurements of thermal and I-V characteristics, sensor noise and energy resolution are presented. SRON and VTT are developing frequency-domain multiplexing with SQUID current amplifiers to read out the 32 × 32 array. The concept for the frequency division multiplexing read-out will be presented and its performance characteristics discussed. Recent results of sensor operation under AC-bias (500 kHz) are presented.

Original language	English
Article number	22
Pages (from-to)	167-176
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - the international society for optical engineering
Volume	5501
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552933
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2004
Event	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 22 Jun 2004 → 23 Jun 2004

Keywords

Cryogenic micro-calorimeters
Frequency-domain multiplexing (FDM)
Imaging X-ray spectrometer
SQUIDs
Transition-edge sensors (TES)
X-ray astronomy
XEUS

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De Korte, P. A. J., Van Baar, J. J., Baars, N. H. R., Bakker, F. E., Tiest, W. M. B., Bruijn, M. P., Germeau, A., Hoevers, H. F. C., Kiviranta, M., Krouwer, E., Van Kuur, J. D., Lubbers, M. P., Mels, W. A., Ridder, M. L., Seppae, H., & Wiegerink, R. J. (2004). A cryogenic imaging X-ray spectrometer for XEUS read out by frequency-division SQUID multiplexers. Proceedings of SPIE - the international society for optical engineering, 5501, 167-176. Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552933

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A cryogenic imaging X-ray spectrometer for XEUS read out by frequency-division SQUID multiplexers. / De Korte, Piet A.J.; Van Baar, John J.; Baars, Norman H.R. et al.
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