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Superconducting Tunnel Junctions for High-Energy-Resolution X-Ray Detectors

Award Information

Agency:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
22824 		Program Year/Program:
1994 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
22824 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
HYPRES. Inc.
175 Clearbrook Road Elmsford, NY -
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Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 1994
Title: Superconducting Tunnel Junctions for High-Energy-Resolution X-Ray Detectors
Agency: NASA
Contract: N/A
Award Amount: $69,714.00
 

Abstract:

Compact, high energy resolution X-ray detectors are required for spaced based X-ray astronomy. Superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) X-ray sensors, based on the collection of quasiparticles produced by the absorption of X-ray photons, will allow the construction of X-ray spectrometers with better than an order of magnitude improvement in energy resolution over state of the art semiconducting PIN devices, at a small fraction of the weight of conventional systems. The development of these detectors represents an innovation in X-ray detectors because of their light weight and high energy resolution, making them ideal for use on spaced based platforms. Furthermore, thin film STJ X-ray detectors will have important commercial applications in X-ray spectrometers on electron microprobe instruments, for elemental compositional analysis of specimens through energy dispersive X-ray methods. The objective of our research is the construction of STJ detectors with an energy resolution in excess of 10 eV, for application in X-ray spectroscopy.

Principal Investigator:

Raphael Robertazzi
9145921190

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Hypres, Inc.
175 Clearbrook Road Elmsford, NY 10523

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