22–26 Jul 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

Development of Low-Frequency Space-Optimized TES Bolometer Arrays for LiteBIRD

23 Jul 2019, 17:45
1h 15m
Piazza Città di Lombardia (Milano)

Piazza Città di Lombardia

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Poster Low Temperature Detector Development and Physics Poster session

Speaker

Dr Greg Jaehnig (University of Colorado Boulder)

Description

LiteBIRD is a cosmic microwave background polarization experiment with the goal of measuring the tensor-to-scalar ratio with a total uncertainty of $\delta r$ < 0.001. It will survey the full sky for three years in 15 frequency bands spanning 34 to 448 GHz. We are developing detector arrays for the six lowest frequency bands, 34 to 99 GHz. The arrays are populated with lenslet-coupled sinuous antennas, two types of triplexer filters, and transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We have measured the electrical and thermal properties of these space-optimized TES bolometers. The design balances requirements for low saturation power of the space environment while maintaining a fast time response for use with a continuously-rotating half-wave plate. We have achieved detector saturation powers below 1 pW, with time constants faster than 1 ms, at a 100 mK bath temperature using both time- and frequency-division multiplexed SQUID readout systems.

Student (Ph.D., M.Sc. or B.Sc.) N
Less than 5 years of experience since completion of Ph.D Y

Primary authors

Dr Greg Jaehnig (University of Colorado Boulder) Kam Arnold (University of California, San Diego) Jason Austermann (University of Colorado-Boulder & NIST-Boulder) Daniel Becker (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Shannon Duff (NIST-Boulder) Prof. Nils Halverson (CU Boulder) Masashi Hazumi (KEK, Tsukuba) Gene Hilton (NIST-Boulder) Johannes Hubmayr (NIST) Prof. Adrian T. Lee (University of California, Berkeley) Dr Michael Link (NIST) Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Michael Vissers (NIST-Boulder) Samantha Walker (University of Colorado Boulder/NIST Boulder) Benjamin Westbrook (University of California, Berkeley)

Presentation materials