Large arrays of dual-polarized multichroic TES detectors for CMB measurements with the SPT-3G receiver

Posada, Chrystian M., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, Anderson, Adam J., Avva, Jessica, Ahmed, Zeeshan, Arnold, Kam S., Austermann, Jason, Bender, Amy N., Benson, Bradford A., Bleem, Lindsey, Byrum, Karen, Carlstrom, John E., Carter, Faustin W., Chang, Clarence, Cho, Hsiao-Mei, Cukierman, Ari, Czaplewski, David A., Ding, Junjia, Divan, Ralu N. S., de Haan, Tijmen, Dobbs, Matt, Dutcher, Daniel, Everett, Wenderline, Gannon, Renae N., Guyser, Robert J., Halverson, Nils W., Harrington, Nicholas L., Hattori, Kaori, Henning, Jason W., Hilton, Gene C., Holzapfel, William L., Huang, Nicholas, Irwin, Kent D., Jeong, Oliver, Khaire, Trupti, Korman, Milo, Kubik, Donna L., Kuo, Chao-Lin, Lee, Adrian T., Leitch, Erik M., Lendinez Escudero, Sergi, Meyer, Stephan S., Miller, Christina S., Montgomery, Joshua, Nadolski, Andrew, Natoli, Tyler J., Nguyen, Hogan, Novosad, Valentyn, Padin, Stephen, Pan, Zhaodi, Pearson, John E., Rahlin, Alexandra, Reichardt, Christian L., Ruhl, John E., Saliwanchik, Benjamin, Shirley, Ian, Sayre, James T., Shariff, Jamil A., Shirokoff, Erik D., Stan, Liliana, Stark, Antony A., Sobrin, Joshua, Story, Kyle, Suzuki, Aritoki, Tang, Qing Yang, Thakur, Ritoban B., Thompson, Keith L., Tucker, Carole E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918, Vanderlinde, Keith, Vieira, Joaquin D., Wang, Gensheng, Whitehorn, Nathan, Yefremenko, Volodymyr and Yoon, Ki Won 2016. Large arrays of dual-polarized multichroic TES detectors for CMB measurements with the SPT-3G receiver. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 26 June - 1 July 2016. Published in: Holland, Wayne S. and Zmuidzinas, Jonas eds. Proceedings Volume 9914, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII. , vol.9914 SPIE, p. 991417. 10.1117/12.2232912

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Abstract

Detectors for cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments are now essentially background limited, so a straightforward alternative to improve sensitivity is to increase the number of detectors. Large arrays of multichroic pixels constitute an economical approach to increasing the number of detectors within a given focal plane area. Here, we present the fabrication of large arrays of dual-polarized multichroic transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers for the South Pole Telescope third-generation CMB receiver (SPT-3G). The complete SPT-3G receiver will have 2690 pixels, each with six detectors, allowing for individual measurement of three spectral bands (centered at 95 GHz, 150 GHz and 220 GHz) in two orthogonal polarizations. In total, the SPT-3G focal plane will have 16140 detectors. Each pixel is comprised of a broad-band sinuous antenna coupled to a niobium microstrip transmission line. In-line filters are used to define the different band-passes before the millimeter-wavelength signal is fed to the respective Ti/Au TES sensors. Detectors are read out using a 64x frequency domain multiplexing (fMux) scheme. The microfabrication of the SPT-3G detector arrays involves a total of 18 processes, including 13 lithography steps. Together with the fabrication process, the effect of processing on the Ti/Au TES’s Tc is discussed. In addition, detectors fabricated with Ti/Au TES films with Tc between 400 mK 560 mK are presented and their thermal characteristics are evaluated. Optical characterization of the arrays is presented as well, indicating that the response of the detectors is in good agreement with the design values for all three spectral bands (95 GHz, 150 GHz, and 220 GHz). The measured optical efficiency of the detectors is between 0.3 and 0.8. Results discussed here are extracted from a batch of research of development wafers used to develop the baseline process for the fabrication of the arrays of detectors to be deployed with the SPT-3G receiver. Results from these research and development wafers have been incorporated into the fabrication process to get the baseline fabrication process presented here. SPT-3G is scheduled to deploy to the South Pole Telescope in late 2016.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	SPIE
ISSN:	0277-786X
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2023 13:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/157691

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