International Workshop on Transition Edge Sensor Device Physics

TES III Program

You can download pdf copies of the TES III program here., abstracts and list of attendees

	Thu Aug 17
Time	Title		Speaker
08:30	Registration
09:00		TES III Welcome
09:10		Thermodynamics of nonlinear bolometers near equilibrium	Irwin
09:40		Thermalization and phonon down-conversion noise in TES microcalorimeters	Kozorezov
10:10		Flux Flow noise in Transition Edge Sensors	Galeazzi
10:40	Coffee Break
11:15		Excess Noise in TESs: A Comparison of Current Theories	Brandt
11:40		Excess Broadening Due to Diffusion in the Absorber	Saab
12:10		Presentation of Posters
12:20	Lunch
01:45		Recent developments in frequency domain multiplexing	van der Kuur
02:10		Time-division SQUID multiplexer for 128 TES X-ray microcalorimeters	Hilton
02:35		Low temperature transformer readout electronics for microcalorimeters	Gatti
03:00		Multiplexed Transformers to Read Out Arrays of Microcalorimeters	Galeazzi
03:20 - 04:25	Coffee Break & Poster Session
		Optical TES Imaging: Some stuff you never think about	Bay
		Upcoming TES Bolometer Arrays in Cameras for Millimeter Wavelength Astronomy	Benford
		Superconducting Nanowire Bolometers	Bock
		Developing Fully Integrated TES Microcalorimeters using Ir TES and Sn Absorbers	Bogorin
		Cantilevered X-ray Absorbers for Close-Packed TES Detector Arrays	Brown
		First result of EDXRD experiment using a gamma-ray TES calorimeter with Sn absorber	Hoshino
		Analysis of Saturated Pulses for the Waveform Domain Multiplexing Readout of IR-TES	Masashi
		TES bolometer with non-Andreev contacts	Vystavkin
		Understanding thermal process in TES X-ray microcalorimeters using a FEM thermal model	Yoshino
		Noise studies in Tin	Zhang

04:30		A Hot-Electron Direct Detector for Low-Background Submillimeter Applications	Karasik
04:55		TESs Take Pretty Pictures	Burney/Bay
05:20		High-density arrays of x-ray microcalorimeters for Constellation-X	Bandler
05:45		TES @ ASC 2008	Irwin
07:00	TES III Dinner

	Fri Aug 18
Time	Title		Speaker
09:00		Study of transition steepness for wiring and absorber coupling geometries	van der Kuur
09:25		Equivalent circuit measurement and complex impedance of calorimeters and bolometers	Lindeman
09:50		Characterization of x-ray microcalorimeters for Constellation-X	Iyomoto
10:15	Coffee Break
10:45		A high energy resolution gamma-ray TES calorimeter with 0.5ms response time	Oshima
11:10		Gamma-ray microcalorimeter arrays for nuclear materials analysis	Ullom
11:35		Position Sensitive Transition-Edge Sensors: Recent Progress and Current Issues	Figueroa-Feliciano
12:00		Doped Silicon Phonon-Mediated, Distributed, TES Detector With Deep Trenches For Use In Astronomy	Leman
12:25	Lunch
01:55		Performance of prototype finline-coupled TES bolometers for CLOVER	Audley
02:20		Status report on the development of TES for MANU2	Ribeiro-Gomes
02:45		Light detector development for CRESST Dark Matter Search	Pantic
03:10		Detector Development for the Next Phases of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search	Bailey
03:35	Coffee Break & Poster Session
04:35 - 05:30	General TES Discussion & Wrapup session

The organizers wish to thank VeriCold Technologies, Oxford Instruments, and Star Cryoelectronics for their generous support of this workshop.