High-Frequency Noise Peaks in Mo/Au Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor Microcalorimeters

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2020-01-13

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Cite this article Wakeham, N.A., Adams, J.S., Bandler, S.R. et al. High-Frequency Noise Peaks in Mo/Au Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor Microcalorimeters. J Low Temp Phys (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-019-02322-3

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The measured noise in Mo/Au transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters produced at NASA has recently been shown to be well described by a two-body electrothermal model with a finite thermal conductance between the X-ray absorber and the TES. In this article, we present observations of a high-frequency peak in the measured current noise in some of these devices. The peak is associated with an oscillatory component of the TES response that is not predicted in a single-body model but can be qualitatively described by the two-body model.