Kenyon, M. and Day, P. K. and Bradford, C. M. and Bock, J. J. and Leduc, H. G. (2009) Ultra‐sensitive transition‐edge sensors (TESs) for far-IR/submm space‐borne spectroscopy. In: Low temperature detectors, LTD-13. AIP Conference Proceedings. No.1185. American Institute of Physics , Melville, NY, pp. 56-59. ISBN 978-0-7354-0751-0. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160511-135208362
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We have built surface micromachined thin‐film metallized Si_xN_y optical absorbers for transition‐edge sensors (TESs) suitable for the Background‐Limited far‐IR/Submm Spectrograph (BLISS). BLISS is a broadband (38 μm–433 μm), grating spectrometer consisting of five wavebands each with a modest resolution of R ∼1000. Because BLISS requires the effective noise equivalent power (NEP) of the TES to be below 10^(-19) W/Hz^(1/2), our TESs consist of four long (1000 μm), narrow (0.4 μm), and thin (0.25 μm) Si_xN_y support beams that reduce the thermal conductance G between the substrate and the optical absorber. To reduce the heat capacity of the absorber and make the response time τ fast enough for BLISS, our absorbers are patterned into a mesh geometry with a fill factor of less than 10%. We use a bilayer of Ti/Au to make the effective impedance of the absorber match the impedance of the incoming radiation for each band. Measurements of the response time of the metallized absorbers to heat pulses show that their heat capacity exceeds the predictions of the Debye model. Our results are suggestive that the surface of the low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) Si_xN_y used in the absorbers’ construction is the source of microstates that dominate the heat capacity.
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| Additional Information: | © 2009 American Institute of Physics. Published online 16 December 2009. This research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. | |||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | transition-edge sensor; far-IR spectrometer; submillimeter spectrometer; Si_xN_y heat capacity | |||||||||
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| Issue or Number: | 1185 | |||||||||
| Classification Code: | PACS: 85.25.Pb; 95.85.Gn; 95.85.Fm; 63.22.+m | |||||||||
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| Official Citation: | Ultra‐sensitive transition‐edge sensors (TESs) for far‐IR/submm space‐borne spectroscopy Kenyon, M. and Day, P. K. and Bradford, C. M. and Bock, J. J. and Leduc, H. G., AIP Conference Proceedings, 1185, 56-59 (2009), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3292406 | |||||||||
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