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    Parallel-Plate Capacitor Titanium Nitride Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Infrared Astronomy

    The Balloon Experiment for Galactic INfrared Science (BEGINS) is a concept for a sub-orbital observatory that will operate from \(\lambda\) ...

    J. Perido, P. K. Day, A. D. Beyer, N. F. Cothard in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2024)

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    Parallel Plate Capacitor Aluminum KIDs for Future Far-Infrared Space-Based Observatories

    Future space-based far-infrared astrophysical observatories will require exquisitely sensitive detectors consistent with the low optical backgrounds. The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) wil...

    N. F. Cothard, C. Albert, A. D. Beyer, C. M. Bradford in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2024)

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    High-Sensitivity Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for the PRobe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics

    Far-infrared (far-IR) astrophysics missions featuring actively cooled telescopes will offer orders of magnitude observing speed improvement at wavelengths where galaxies and forming planetary systems emit most...

    L. Foote, C. Albert, J. Baselmans, A. D. Beyer in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2024)

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    Thin-Film Thermal Conductivity Measurements Using Superconducting Nanowires

    We present a simple experimental scheme for estimating the cryogenic thermal transport properties of thin films using superconducting nanowires. In a parallel array of nanowires, the heat from one nanowire in ...

    J. P. Allmaras, A. G. Kozorezov, A. D. Beyer in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2018)

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    Toward a Detector/Readout Architecture for the Background-Limited Far-IR/Submm Spectrograph (BLISS)

    We have built and tested 32-element linear arrays of absorber-coupled transition-edge sensors (TESs) read out with a time-division SQUID multiplexer. This detector/readout architecture is designed for the back...

    M. Kenyon, A. D. Beyer, B. Bumble, P. M. Echternach in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2014)

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    Comparing Transition-Edge Sensor Response Times in a Modified Contact Scheme with Different Support Beams

    We present measurements of the thermal conductance, G, and effective time constants, \(\tau \)

    A. D. Beyer, M. E. Kenyon, B. Bumble, M. C. Runyan in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2014)

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    Ultra-sensitive Transition-Edge Sensors for the Background Limited Infrared/Sub-mm Spectrograph (BLISS)

    We report progress in fabricating ultra-sensitive superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) for BLISS. BLISS is a suite of grating spectrometers covering 35–433 μm with R∼700 cooled to 50 mK that is proposed...

    A. D. Beyer, M. E. Kenyon, P. M. Echternach, T. Chui in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2012)

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    Spectroscopic Evidence for Competing Order-Induced Pseudogap Phenomena and Unconventional Low-Energy Excitations in High-T c Cuprate Superconductors

    The low-energy excitations of cuprate superconductors exhibit various characteristics that differ from those of simple Bogoliubov quasiparticles for pure

    N.-C. Yeh, A. D. Beyer, M. L. Teague in Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Mag… (2010)