TY - GEN
T1 - Development of polycapillary optics for a TES Microcalorimeter EDS System on a Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope
AU - Takano, Akira
AU - Maehata, Keisuke
AU - Iyomoto, Naoko
AU - Hara, Toru
AU - Mitsuda, Kazuhisa
AU - Yamasaki, Noriko
AU - Tanaka, Keiichi
PY - 2017/10/16
Y1 - 2017/10/16
N2 - An energy dispersive spectrometer with a superconducting transition edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeter mounted on a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) has been developed to improve the accuracy of nanoscale material analysis. Because of the magnetic field generated by the STEM objective lens, a TES microcalorimeter cannot be placed in a STEM column. Therefore, a polycapillary optics is used for collecting X-rays emitted by a STEM specimen on the TES microcalorimeter. The counting rate of 300 cps was insufficient for a practical application to the STEM. To achieve the counting rate larger than 5000 cps, we are now conducting development of a 64-pixel TES microcalorimeter system operating on the STEM. We developed a new polycapillary optics for a 64-pixel TES microcalorimeter with using a X-ray transmission simulation model that we made. We performed energy spectrum measurements of X-rays transmitted by the fabricated new polycapillary optics for evaluating the X-ray transmission characteristics.
AB - An energy dispersive spectrometer with a superconducting transition edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeter mounted on a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) has been developed to improve the accuracy of nanoscale material analysis. Because of the magnetic field generated by the STEM objective lens, a TES microcalorimeter cannot be placed in a STEM column. Therefore, a polycapillary optics is used for collecting X-rays emitted by a STEM specimen on the TES microcalorimeter. The counting rate of 300 cps was insufficient for a practical application to the STEM. To achieve the counting rate larger than 5000 cps, we are now conducting development of a 64-pixel TES microcalorimeter system operating on the STEM. We developed a new polycapillary optics for a 64-pixel TES microcalorimeter with using a X-ray transmission simulation model that we made. We performed energy spectrum measurements of X-rays transmitted by the fabricated new polycapillary optics for evaluating the X-ray transmission characteristics.
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2016.8069767
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2016.8069767
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop, NSS/MIC/RTSD 2016
BT - 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop, NSS/MIC/RTSD 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop, NSS/MIC/RTSD 2016
Y2 - 29 October 2016 through 6 November 2016
ER -