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Superconductive junctions with trappinglayers for the detection of X-rays

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Addition of a trapping layer to an SIS junction improves its performance as an X-ray detector. In this article X-ray induced pulse height and decay time spectra will be presented as a function of bias voltage. These measurements are in good agreement with a description based on the time constants for trapping, excitation and tunneling calculated by means of a model for proximity layers developed by Golubov et al..1,2The interpretation of the data doesn't require an initial fast loss process for the created quasi-particles as discussed by Van Vechten.3

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  1. Laboratory for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA, Utrecht, the Netherlands

    J. B. le Grand, M. P. Bruijn, M. Frericks, W. Laauwen, D. Nilsson, P. A. J. de Korte, P. Valko, J. G. Gijsbertsen, E. P. Houwman & J. Flokstra

  2. Faculty of Applied Physics, Low Temperature Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, the Netherlands

    J. G. Gijsbertsen, E. P. Houwman & J. Flokstra

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On leave from Department of Physics, Slovak Technical University, Ilkovicova 3, 812-19, Bratislava, Slovakia

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le Grand, J.B., Bruijn, M.P., Frericks, M. et al. Superconductive junctions with trappinglayers for the detection of X-rays. J Low Temp Phys 93, 573–580 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00693478

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