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Instruments, Volume 8, Issue 4

2024 December - 12 articles

Cover Story: Transition-edge sensors (TESs) are ultra-sensitive detectors that have helped to revolutionize various fields, from astronomy to quantum computing. These devices exploit the sharp superconducting transition of superconductors, operating at temperatures just above absolute zero to detect faint signals, such as single photons, massive particles or heat. TESs are used to measure the cosmic microwave background, study distant galaxies, and engage in rare-particle experiments. Beyond science, they are enabling advances in quantum information and materials science, and they play a critical role in nuclear safeguarding. We will review the physics underlying TESs and their main applications. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,607 Views
14 Pages

Portable Arbitrary Pulse Generator for Driving Microcoils for Micromagnetic Neurostimulation

  • Robert P. Bloom,
  • Renata Saha,
  • Zachary Sanger,
  • Walter C. Low,
  • Theoden I. Netoff and
  • Jian-Ping Wang

Micromagnetic stimulation (μMS) is a promising branch of neurostimulation but without some of the drawbacks of electrical stimulation. Microcoil (μcoil)-based magnetic stimulation uses small micrometer-sized coils that generate a time-varying m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,570 Views
11 Pages

A 3D Printed Air-Tight Cell Adaptable for Far-Infrared Reflectance, Optical Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy, and Raman Spectroscopy Measurements

  • Annalisa Paolone,
  • Arcangelo Celeste,
  • Maria Di Pea,
  • Sergio Brutti,
  • Ferenc Borondics and
  • Francesco Capitani

Material characterization and investigation are the basis for improving the performance of electrochemical devices. However, many compounds with electrochemical applications are sensitive to atmospheric gases and moisture; therefore, even their chara...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,167 Views
15 Pages

A New Approach to Enhancing Radiation Hardness in Advanced Nuclear Radiation Detectors Subjected to Fast Neutrons

  • Aref Vakili,
  • Mahsa Farasat,
  • Antonino La Magna,
  • Markus Italia and
  • Lucio Pancheri

Low-Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs) are critical sensors for the ATLAS and CMS timing detectors at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), offering enhanced timing resolution with gain factors of 20 to 50. However, their radiation tolerance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,850 Views
17 Pages

An Open-Frame Loading Stage for High-Resolution X-Ray CT

  • David Plappert,
  • Michael Schütz,
  • Georg C. Ganzenmüller,
  • Frank Fischer,
  • Mario Campos,
  • Simon Procz,
  • Michael Fiederle and
  • Stefan Hiermaier

The utilisation of high-resolution in situ computed tomography (CT) in the (sub-)μm range is typically only viable in synchrotron facilities, as the deployment of a conventional loading stage in laboratory CTs with a cone beam source does not faci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,183 Views
14 Pages

Acoustic Communication Among Smart Sensors: A Feasibility Study

  • Paolo Caruso,
  • Helbert da Rocha,
  • Antonio Espírito-Santo,
  • Vincenzo Paciello and
  • José Salvado

Smart sensors and networks have spread worldwide over the past few decades. In the industry field, these concepts have found an increasing quantity of applications. The omnipresence of smart sensor networks and smart devices, especially in the indust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,723 Views
22 Pages

Assessing the Performance of Deep Learning Predictions for Dynamic Aperture of a Hadron Circular Particle Accelerator

  • Davide Di Croce,
  • Massimo Giovannozzi,
  • Carlo Emilio Montanari,
  • Tatiana Pieloni,
  • Stefano Redaelli and
  • Frederik F. Van der Veken

Understanding the concept of dynamic aperture provides essential insights into nonlinear beam dynamics, beam losses, and the beam lifetime in circular particle accelerators. This comprehension is crucial for the functioning of modern hadron synchrotr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,895 Views
37 Pages

A comprehensive multi-jet physics program is anticipated for experiments at future colliders. Key physics processes necessitate detectors that can distinguish signals from W and Z bosons and the Higgs boson. Typical examples include channels with&nbs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,964 Views
10 Pages

Improvement and Characterisation of the ArCLight Large-Area Dielectric Light Detector for Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers

  • Jonas Bürgi,
  • Livio Calivers,
  • Richard Diurba,
  • Fabian Frieden,
  • Anja Gauch,
  • Laura Francesca Iacob,
  • Igor Kreslo,
  • Jan Kunzmann,
  • Saba Parsa and
  • Michele Weber

The detection of scintillation light in noble-liquid detectors is necessary for identifying neutrino interaction candidates from beam, astrophysical, or solar sources. Large monolithic detectors typically have highly efficient light sensors, like pho...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,608 Views
65 Pages

Transition Edge Sensors: Physics and Applications

  • Mario De Lucia,
  • Paolo Dal Bo,
  • Eugenia Di Giorgi,
  • Tommaso Lari,
  • Claudio Puglia and
  • Federico Paolucci

Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are amongst the most sensitive cryogenic detectors and can be easily optimized for the detection of massive particles or photons ranging from X-rays all the way down to millimetre radiation. Furthermore, TESs exhibit un...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,746 Views
8 Pages

In this work, we studied the light-output properties, efficiency function, as well as the pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) capability of p-Terphenyl scintillator. The selected solid cylindrical scintillation detector has a thickness of 45 mm and a di...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,705 Views
4 Pages

In the last decades, breakthrough advances in understanding the mechanisms of the Universe and fundamental physics have been achieved through the exploitation of data on cosmic rays and high-energy radiation gathered via orbiting experiments, in a sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,616 Views
10 Pages

An In Situ Automated System for Real-Time Monitoring of Failures in Large-Scale Field Emitter Arrays

  • Reza Farsad Asadi,
  • Tao Zheng,
  • Menglin Wang,
  • Han Gao,
  • Kenneth Sangston and
  • Bruce Gnade

Nano-scale vacuum transistors (NVCTs) based on field emission have the potential to operate at high frequencies and withstand harsh environments, such as radiation, high temperatures, and high power. However, they have demonstrated instability and fa...

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