D. J. Goldie,
M. D. Audley, D. M. Glowacka, V. N. Tsaneva, S. Withington.
DPG activities
DPG capabilities
Optical modelling
Electromagnetics
Thermal behaviour
Device modelling
Fabrication (Transition Edge Sensors (TESs), Kinetic
Inductance Detectors, SIS tunnel junctions, SQUIDs..
Characterization
Detector packaging
This talk
TESs for CMB polarization experiments
ClOVER TEAM
NIST- K. D. Irwin
UBC- M. Halpern
Detector Physics Group
at the
Cavendish Laboratory
TES Bolometers: CMB Workshop Cambridge July 2009
Operating Temperature:
Calibration
Waveguide
probes
Low frequency
Grounding ring
Detector Physics Group
at the
Cavendish Laboratory
Mo-Cu TESs
500 nm SiNx support and
thermal isolation
Tc 200 mK
Tbath 100mK
Tc: 190 mK
Power handling: 11 pW
Detector Physics Group
at the
Cavendish Laboratory
TES Bolometers: CMB Workshop Cambridge July 2009
Blackbody Illuminator
Two low-pass filters define band
Conical radiator
Heat sunk to 1K stage
3G/4
G/4
Johnson
G2
100% and
89%
efficiency
100 m
225 m
ClOVER HF CHANNEL
Power Multiplexing
Nb3
Ins3
Nb1
Ins1
Nb2
Materials Characterization I
Materials Characterization II
Materials Characterization IV
Lab on a chip 2
Thermal conductance
How to make low G close-packed
arrays?
Low G TESs for low power applications
Optical Modelling
C. N. Thomas, S. Withington
The FUTURE