Fabrication of Low-Noise TES Arrays for the SAFARI Instrument on SPICA

M. L. Ridder; P. Khosropanah; R. A. Hijmering; T. Suzuki; M. P. Bruijn; H. F C Hoevers; J. R. Gao; M. R. Zuiddam

doi:10.1007/s10909-015-1381-z

Fabrication of Low-Noise TES Arrays for the SAFARI Instrument on SPICA

M. L. Ridder^*
, P. Khosropanah
, R. A. Hijmering
, T. Suzuki
, M. P. Bruijn
, H. F C Hoevers
, J. R. Gao
, M. R. Zuiddam

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Ultra-low-noise transition edge sensors (TES) with noise equivalent power lower than 2 × 10^{- 19} W/Hz^{1 / 2} have been fabricated by SRON, which meet the sensitivity requirements for the far-infrared SAFARI instrument on space infrared telescope for cosmology and astrophysics. Our TES detector is based on a titanium/gold (Ti/Au) thermistor on a silicon nitride (SiN) island. The island is thermally linked with SiN legs to a silicon support structure at the bath temperature. The SiN legs are very thin (250 nm), narrow (500 nm), and long (above 300 μ m); these dimensions are needed in leg-isolated bolometers to achieve the required level of sensitivity. In this paper, we describe the latest fabrication process for our TES bolometers with improved sensitivity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	60-65
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume	184
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-015-1381-z
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2016

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Bolometer
SiN membrane
Transition edge sensors

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