FERRARI BARUSSO , L.

Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors employed in X-ray astrophysics space missions were realized and fully characterized in the Low temperature detector laboratory at UniGe. Several samples of Ir and Ir/Au bilayer films were grown by pulsed laser deposition at different deposition rate, varying thickness and resulting variability in critical...

We are developing the Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector (CryoAC) of the ATHENA X-IFU spectrometer. It is a TES-based particle detector aimed to reduce the background of the instrument. Here, we present the result obtained with the last CryoAC single-pixel prototype. It is based on a 1 cm2 silicon absorber sensed by a single 2 mm x 1 mm Ir/Au...