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Douglas Alan Bennett (Fed)

Douglas Bennett is a research physicist and project leader in the Quantum Sensors Group within the Quantum Electromagnetics Division at NIST. His research primarily focuses on the development of scalable readout for high sensitivity cryogenic and quantum sensors. Other current research interests include superconducting devices, x-ray astrophysics, and quantum information. He has authored or coauthored over 100 publications, and has received several awards, including an R&D100 award and NIST/DOC Silver and Bronze medals.

Publications

Kinetic inductance current sensor for visible to near-infrared wavelength transition-edge sensor readout

Author(s)
Paul Szypryt, Douglas Bennett, Ian Fogarty Florang, Joseph Fowler, Jiansong Gao, Andrea Giachero, Ruslan Hummatov, Adriana Lita, John Mates, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler
Single-photon detectors based on the superconducting transition-edge sensor are used in a number of visible to near-infrared applications, particularly for

Few-electron highly charged muonic Ar atoms verified by electronic K xrays

Author(s)
Takuma Okumura, Toshiyuki Azuma, Douglas Bennett, W. Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Malcolm Durkin, Joseph Fowler, Johnathon Gard, Tadashi Hashimoto, Ryota Hayakawa, Yuto Ichinohe, Paul Indelicato, Tadaaki Isobe, Sohtaro Kanda, Daiji Kato, Miho Katsuragawa, Naritoshi Kawamura, Yasushi Kino, Nao Kominato, Yasuhiro Miyake, Kelsey Morgan, Hirofumi Noda, Galen O'Neil, Shinji Okada, Kenichi Okutsu, Nancy Paul, Carl D. Reintsema, Toshiki Sato, Dan Schmidt, Kouichiro Shimomura, Patrick Strasser, Daniel Swetz, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shinichiro Takeda, Soshi Takeshita, Motonobu Tampo, Hideyuki Tatsuno, Tong Xiao-Min, Joel Ullom, Shin Watanabe, Shinya Yamada, Takuma Yamashita
Electronic K x rays emitted by muonic Ar atoms in the gas phase were observed using a superconducting transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeter. The high

Effects of Stray Magnetic Field on Transition-edge Sensors in Gamma-ray Microcalorimeters

Author(s)
Mark Keller, Abigail Wessels, Dan Becker, Douglas Bennett, Matthew Carpenter, Mark Croce, Jozsef Imrek, Johnathon Gard, John Mates, Kelsey Morgan, Nathan Ortiz, Dan Schmidt, Katherine Schreiber, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom
Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) used in x-ray and γ-ray microcalorimeters suffer degraded performance if cooled in a magnetic field B sufficient

Nanoscale Three-Dimensional Imaging of Integrated Circuits Using a Scanning Electron Microscope and Transition-Edge Sensor Spectrometer

Author(s)
Nathan Nakamura, Paul Szypryt, Amber Dagel, Bradley Alpert, Douglas Bennett, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Malcolm Durkin, Joseph Fowler, Dylan Fox, Johnathon Gard, Ryan Goodner, James Zachariah Harris, Gene C. Hilton, Edward Jimenez, Burke Kernen, Kurt Larson, Zachary H. Levine, Daniel McArthur, Kelsey Morgan, Galen O'Neil, Christine Pappas, Carl D. Reintsema, Dan Schmidt, Peter Schulz, Daniel Swetz, Kyle Thompson, Joel Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Courtenay Vaughan, Christopher Walker, Joel Weber, Jason Wheeler
X-ray nanotomography is a powerful tool for the characterization of nanoscale materials and structures, but it is difficult to implement due to the competing

A tabletop x-ray tomography instrument for nanometer-scale imaging: demonstration of the 1,000-element transition-edge sensor subarray

Author(s)
Paul Szypryt, Nathan J. Nakamura, Dan Becker, Douglas Bennett, Amber L. Dagel, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Joseph Fowler, Johnathon Gard, J. Zachariah Harris, Gene C. Hilton, Jozsef Imrek, Edward S. Jimenez, Kurt W. Larson, Zachary H. Levine, John Mates, Daniel McArthur, Luis Miaja Avila, Kelsey Morgan, Galen O'Neil, Nathan Ortiz, Christine G. Pappas, Dan Schmidt, Kyle R. Thompson, Joel Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Michael Vissers, Christopher Walker, Joel Weber, Abigail Wessels, Jason W. Wheeler, Daniel Swetz
We report on the 1,000-element transition-edge sensor (TES) x-ray spectrometer implementation of the TOMographic Circuit Analysis Tool (TOMCAT). TOMCAT combines
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Created July 30, 2019, Updated October 11, 2023