Measurement of the tunnel rate in SIS' tunnel junctions as function of bias voltage

Journal of Superconductivity 9:2 (1996) 245-252

Authors:

H Kraus, M Gutsche, P Hettl, J Jochum, B Kemmather

Abstract:

Cryogenic detectors with superconducting tunnel junctions can provide an energy resolution improved by at least one order of magnitude compared with standard semiconductor detectors. While the detection principle was already demonstrated many years ago, the past years were dedicated to the transition from the laboratory sample to practical detectors. Our most favored detector design gives rise to tunnel junctions with electrodes of unequal energy gaps. In such hetero tunnel junctions bias conditions can be established which cause a negative signal current. We report the experimental verification of this effect, and we discuss the yield of charge signal of cryogenic detectors based upon superconducting tunnel junctions. © 1996 Plenum Publishing Corporation.

Growth and characterization of epitaxial vanadium films

Thin Solid Films Elsevier 248:1 (1994) 18-27

Authors:

M Gutsche, H Kraus, J Jochum, B Kemmather, G Gutekunst

Electronic noise of superconducting tunnel junction detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 338:2-3 (1994) 458-466

Authors:

J Jochum, H Kraus, M Gutsche, B Kemmather, FV Feilitzsch, RL Mössbauer

Progress on detectors with superconducting tunnel junctions

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 2006 (1993) 211-220

Authors:

Hans Kraus, Josef Jochum, B Kemmather, M Gutsche

Photolithographic fabrication of tunnel junction detectors

Journal of Low Temperature Physics Springer Nature 93:3-4 (1993) 637-639

Authors:

B Kemmather, H Kraus, J Jochum, M Gutsche