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Electron and phonon effects in superconducting tunnel detectors of x-radiation

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Nb/Al/AlOx/Nb superconducting tunnel junctions were investigated in the role of x-ray detectors. Amplitude spectra of pulses arising upon irradiation of tunnel junctions of different sizes by 55Mn x-radiation were recorded at a temperature T=1.4 K. We also analyzed the temporal shape of the pulses. We considered the influence of diffuse motion of nonequilibrium quasiparticles, the inverse tunneling effect, and exchange of 2Δ phonons between electrodes, on the characteristics of the tunnel detectors. It is shown that phonon processes can bring about changes in the amplitude, duration, and polarity of the signal.

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  1. Scientific-Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia

    V. A. Andrianov, V. P. Gor’kov, M. G. Kozin, I. L. Romashkina, S. A. Sergeev & V. S. Shpinel’

  2. Institute of Radio Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, 103907, Moscow, Russia

    P. N. Dmitriev & V. P. Koshelets

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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 1168–1175 (July 1999)

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Andrianov, V.A., Gor’kov, V.P., Kozin, M.G. et al. Electron and phonon effects in superconducting tunnel detectors of x-radiation. Phys. Solid State 41, 1063–1069 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1130937

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