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27 July 2016 Silicon-based antenna-coupled polarization-sensitive millimeter-wave bolometer arrays for cosmic microwave background instruments
Karwan Rostem, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett, Ari Brown, Meng-Ping Chang, David T. Chuss, Felipe A. Colazo, Nick Costen, Kevin L. Denis, Tom Essinger-Hileman, Ron Hu, Tobias A. Marriage, Samuel H. Moseley, Thomas R. Stevenson, Kongpop U-Yen, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu
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Proceedings Volume 9914, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 99140D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234308
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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We describe feedhorn-coupled polarization-sensitive detector arrays that utilize monocrystalline silicon as the dielectric substrate material. Monocrystalline silicon has a low-loss tangent and repeatable dielectric constant, characteristics that are critical for realizing efficient and uniform superconducting microwave circuits. An additional advantage of this material is its low specific heat. In a detector pixel, two Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers are antenna-coupled to in-band radiation via a symmetric planar orthomode transducer (OMT). Each orthogonal linear polarization is coupled to a separate superconducting microstrip transmission line circuit. On-chip filtering is employed to both reject out-of-band radiation from the upper band edge to the gap frequency of the niobium superconductor, and to flexibly define the bandwidth for each TES to meet the requirements of the application. The microwave circuit is compatible with multi-chroic operation. Metalized silicon platelets are used to define the backshort for the waveguide probes. This micro-machined structure is also used to mitigate the coupling of out-of-band radiation to the microwave circuit. At 40 GHz, the detectors have a measured efficiency of ∼90%. In this paper, we describe the development of the 90 GHz detector arrays that will be demonstrated using the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) ground-based telescope.
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Karwan Rostem, Karwan Rostem, Aamir Ali, Aamir Ali, John W. Appel, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett, Charles L. Bennett, Ari Brown, Ari Brown, Meng-Ping Chang, Meng-Ping Chang, David T. Chuss, David T. Chuss, Felipe A. Colazo, Felipe A. Colazo, Nick Costen, Nick Costen, Kevin L. Denis, Kevin L. Denis, Tom Essinger-Hileman, Tom Essinger-Hileman, Ron Hu, Ron Hu, Tobias A. Marriage, Tobias A. Marriage, Samuel H. Moseley, Samuel H. Moseley, Thomas R. Stevenson, Thomas R. Stevenson, Kongpop U-Yen, Kongpop U-Yen, Edward J. Wollack, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, Zhilei Xu, "Silicon-based antenna-coupled polarization-sensitive millimeter-wave bolometer arrays for cosmic microwave background instruments", Proc. SPIE 9914, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 99140D (27 July 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2234308; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2234308
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