(Nanowerk News) Scientists have demonstrated that a superconducting detector called a transition edge sensor (TES) is capable of counting the number of as many as 1,000 photons in a single pulse of ...

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) have emerged as a cornerstone in the development of high-resolution X‐ray microcalorimeters, combining superconducting phenomena with precise calorimetric techniques.

Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth. Modern cosmology experiments—such as the BICEP instruments and the Keck Array in Antarctica—rely on ...

Jerome Luine, Principal Scientist and Group Lead for Quantum Sensing and Metrology Research at Northrop Grumman, is working on one of the hardest challenges in quantum information science- the ability ...

Schematic of the experimental quantum computer showing pulsed laser beam (from the black box) split into three even segments (red lines). Photons in each segment are measured by a transition-edge ...

An update to technology more than a century old might be key to making the next big discovery in particle physics. This wiring diagram, drawn in 1994, is an early sketch of a concept that might help ...

A series of copper ridges nearly doubles the resolution of experimental X-ray sensors, enabling more precise identification of the X-ray "fingerprints" of different atoms, researchers at the National ...