Kinetic Inductance Detectors for x-ray Spectroscopy

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Kinetic Inductance Detectors for X-Ray Spectroscopy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2012.03.719
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 Physics Procedia 37 ( 2012 ) 697 – 702 
1875-3892 © 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of the organizing committee for TIPP 11. 
doi: 10.1016/j.phpro.2012.03.719 
TIPP 2011 - Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 2011 
Kinetic Inductance Detectors for X-Ray Spectroscopy 
T. Cecil
a
*, A. Miceli
a
, L. Gades
a
, A. Datesman
a
, O. Quaranta
a
, V. Yefremenko
a
, 
V. Novosad
a
, B. Mazin
b
a
Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne Il 60439, USA 
b
University of California Santa Barabra, Department of Physics, Satna Barbara, CA 93106, USA 
Abstract 
The lack of efficient x-ray detectors is often the main factor limiting the effective use of ever more powerful 
synchrotron light sources. Spectroscopic X-ray detectors are used for a wide variety of synchrotron experiments 
including X-ray micro/nano-probes and X-ray absorption spectroscopy for biology and geophysical applications. The 
current state-of-art spectroscopic X-ray detectors are semiconductor devices, and their energy resolutions are 
approaching their theoretical limit of about 100eV at 6 keV. We describe a detector research and development 
program to develop the next-generation of high-resolution spectroscopic X-ray detectors using superconducting 
Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs). With a required energy per charge carrier four orders of magnitude smaller than 
that of Si, superconducting detectors offer up to two orders of magnitude increase in energy resolution. In addition, 
KIDs can be optimized for detection of photons ranging in energy from hard X-ray to IR.
© 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the organizing 
committee for TIPP 2011 
Keywords: 
kinetic inductance detector; x-ray spectroscopy;