An untrasensitive hot-electron bolometer for low-background SMM applications

David Olaya; Jian Wei; Sergei Pereverzev; Boris S. Karasik; Jonathan H. Kawamura; William R. McGrath; Andrei V. Sergeyev; Michael E. Gershenson

doi:10.1117/12.672303

An untrasensitive hot-electron bolometer for low-background SMM applications

David Olaya, Jian Wei, Sergei Pereverzev, Boris S. Karasik, Jonathan H. Kawamura, William R. McGrath, Andrei V. Sergeyev, Michael E. Gershenson

School of Arts and Sciences, New High Energy Theory Center

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Abstract

We are developing a hot-electron superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) that is capable of counting THz photons and operates at T=0.3K. The main driver for this work is moderate resolution spectroscopy (R ∼ 1000) on the future space telescopes with cryogenically cooled (∼ 4 K) mirrors. The detectors for these telescopes must be background-limited with a noise equivalent power (NEP) ∼ 10^-19-10^-20 W/Hz ^1/2 over the range v = 0.3-10 THz. Above about 1 THz, the background photon arrival rate is expected to be ∼ 10-100 s^-1, and photon counting detectors may be preferable to an integrating type. We fabricated superconducting Ti nanosensors with a volume of ∼ 3×10^-3 μm³ on planar Si substrate and have measured the thermal conductance G to the thermal bath. A very low G = 4×10^-14 W/K., measured at 0.3 K., is due to the weak electron-phonon coupling in the material and the thermal isolation provided by superconducting Nb contacts. This low G corresponds to NEP(0.3K) = 3×10^-19 W/Hz^1/2. This Hot-Electron Direct Detector (HEDD) is expected to have a sufficient energy resolution for detecting individual photons with v > 0.3 THz at 0.3 K. With the sensor time constant of a few microseconds, the dynamic range is ∼ 50 dB.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672303
State	Published - 2006
Event	Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III - Orlando, FL, United States Duration: May 29 2006 → May 31 2006

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	6275
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando, FL
Period	5/29/06 → 5/31/06

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Bolometers
Radiation detectors
Submillimeter wave detectors
Superconducting devices

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Olaya, D., Wei, J., Pereverzev, S., Karasik, B. S., Kawamura, J. H., McGrath, W. R., Sergeyev, A. V., & Gershenson, M. E. (2006). An untrasensitive hot-electron bolometer for low-background SMM applications. In Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III Article 627506 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 6275). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672303

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An untrasensitive hot-electron bolometer for low-background SMM applications. / Olaya, David; Wei, Jian; Pereverzev, Sergei et al.
Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III. 2006. 627506 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 6275).

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