US 12,352,634 B1
Meissner-effect transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeter
Stephen M. Carr, Albuquerque, NM (US); Michael C. Hamel, Albuquerque, NM (US); Jesse John Bland, Albuquerque, NM (US); Christian Lew Arrington, Albuquerque, NM (US); Juan Pedro Mendez Granado, Albuquerque, NM (US); and Patrick Sean Finnegan, Albuquerque, NM (US)
Assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US)
Filed by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/081,405.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/293,143, filed on Dec. 23, 2021.
Int. Cl. G01K 13/00 (2021.01); G01K 7/00 (2006.01); G01K 7/36 (2006.01)
CPC G01K 13/006 (2013.01) [G01K 7/006 (2013.01); G01K 7/36 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49014 (2015.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a substrate; and
one or more microcalorimeter elements formed on the substrate, each microcalorimeter element comprising:
an absorber body including a superconductive element, the superconductive element adapted to absorb an incoming photon or radiative particle, wherein heating of the superconductive element due to the absorbed incoming photon or radiative particle causes a change in magnetic flux passing through the superconductive element; and
a planar pickup coil that substantially surrounds the absorber body, the planar pickup coil located within a magnetic sensing distance of the absorber body, the planar pickup coil adapted to sense the change in magnetic flux through the superconductive element.