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The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Focal Plane Fabrication Status

  • B. Westbrook
  • , P. A.R. Ade
  • , M. Aguilar
  • , Y. Akiba
  • , K. Arnold
  • , C. Baccigalupi
  • , D. Barron
  • , D. Beck
  • , S. Beckman
  • , A. N. Bender
  • , F. Bianchini
  • , D. Boettger
  • , J. Borrill
  • , S. Chapman
  • , Y. Chinone
  • , G. Coppi
  • , K. Crowley
  • , A. Cukierman
  • , T. de Haan
  • , R. Dünner
  • M. Dobbs, T. Elleflot, J. Errard, G. Fabbian, S. M. Feeney, C. Feng, G. Fuller, N. Galitzki, A. Gilbert, N. Goeckner-Wald, J. Groh, N. W. Halverson, T. Hamada, M. Hasegawa, M. Hazumi, C. A. Hill, W. Holzapfel, L. Howe, Y. Inoue, G. Jaehnig, A. Jaffe, O. Jeong, D. Kaneko, N. Katayama, B. Keating, R. Keskitalo, T. Kisner, N. Krachmalnicoff, A. Kusaka, M. Le Jeune, A. T. Lee, D. Leon, E. Linder, L. Lowry, A. Madurowicz, D. Mak, F. Matsuda, A. May, N. J. Miller, Y. Minami, J. Montgomery, M. Navaroli, H. Nishino, J. Peloton, A. Pham, L. Piccirillo, D. Plambeck, D. Poletti, G. Puglisi, C. Raum, G. Rebeiz, C. L. Reichardt, P. L. Richards, H. Roberts, C. Ross, K. M. Rotermund, Y. Segawa, B. Sherwin, M. Silva-Feaver, P. Siritanasak, R. Stompor, A. Suzuki, O. Tajima, S. Takakura, S. Takatori, D. Tanabe, R. Tat, G. P. Teply, A. Tikhomirov, T. Tomaru, C. Tsai, N. Whitehorn, A. Zahn

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Abstract

We present on the status of POLARBEAR-2 A (PB2-A) focal plane fabrication. The PB2-A is the first of three telescopes in the Simons Array, which is an array of three cosmic microwave background polarization-sensitive telescopes located at the POLARBEAR site in Northern Chile. As the successor to the PB experiment, each telescope and receiver combination is named as PB2-A, PB2-B, and PB2-C. PB2-A and -B will have nearly identical receivers operating at 90 and 150 GHz while PB2-C will house a receiver operating at 220 and 270 GHz. Each receiver contains a focal plane consisting of seven close-hex packed lenslet-coupled sinuous antenna transition edge sensor bolometer arrays. Each array contains 271 dichroic optical pixels, each of which has four TES bolometers for a total of 7588 detectors per receiver. We have produced a set of two types of candidate arrays for PB2-A. The first we call Version 11 (V11) uses a silicon oxide (SiOx) for the transmission lines and crossover process for orthogonal polarizations. The second we call Version 13 (V13) uses silicon nitride (SiNx) for the transmission lines and cross-under process for orthogonal polarizations. We have produced enough of each type of array to fully populate the focal plane of the PB2-A receiver. The average wirebond yield for V11 and V13 arrays is 93.2% and 95.6%, respectively. The V11 arrays had a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 452±15 mK, a normal resistance (Rn) of 1.25±0.20Ω, and saturation powers of 5.2 ± 1.0 pW and 13 ± 1.2 pW for the 90 and 150 GHz bands, respectively. The V13 arrays had a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 456 ± 6 mK, a normal resistance (Rn) of 1.1±0.2Ω, and saturation powers of 10.8 ± 1.8 pW and 22.9 ± 2.6 pW for the 90 and 150 GHz bands, respectively. Production and characterization of arrays for PB2-B are ongoing and are expected to be completed by the summer of 2018. We have fabricated the first three candidate arrays for PB2-C but do not have any characterization results to present at this time.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)758-770
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume193
Issue number5-6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2018
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • CMB
  • Detectors
  • Fabrication
  • Inflation
  • Instrumentation
  • Polarization
  • Sinuous antenna
  • Transition edge sensor

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