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SPT-3G is a polarization-sensitive receiver, installed on the South Pole Telescope, that measures the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from degree to arcminute scales. The receiver consists of ten 150~mm-diameter detector…

Direct-current superconducting quantum interference devices (dc-SQUIDs) are one of the most sensitive magnetic detectors. These sensors are extensively used in the readout of superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs), which are used…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 Nan Li , Mengjie Song , Sixiao Hu , Wentao Wu , Songqing Liu , Tangchong Kuang , Yudong Gu , Xiangxiang Ren , Xufang Li , He Gao , Zhengwei Li , Congzhan Liu

We report on the development of commercially fabricated multi-chroic antenna coupled Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimetry experiments. The orders of magnitude increase in detector…

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a polarization-sensitive telescope array located at an altitude of 5,200 m in the Chilean Atacama Desert and designed to measure the polarized Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) over…

The Atacama B-Mode Search (ABS) instrument is a cryogenic ($\sim$10 K) crossed-Dragone telescope located at an elevation of 5190 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile that observed for three seasons between February 2012 and October 2014. ABS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 S. M. Simon , J. W. Appel , L. E. Campusano , S. K. Choi , K. T. Crowley , T. Essinger-Hileman , P. Gallardo , S. P. Ho , A. Kusaka , F. Nati , G. A. Palma , L. A. Page , S. Raghunathan , S. T. Staggs

We describe an off-axis microwave telescope for observations of the anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales between 0.5 deg and 3 deg. The receiver utilizes cryogenic high-electron-mobility transistor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 E. J. Wollack , M. J. Devlin , N. Jarosik , C. B. Netterfield , L. Page , D. Wilkinson

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background instrumentation suite being deployed in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The telescopes within SO use three types of dichroic transition-edge sensor (TES) detector arrays,…

At Argonne National Laboratory, we are developing hard X-ray (2 to 20 keV) Transition Edge Sensor (TES) arrays for beamline science. The significantly improved energy resolution provided by superconducting detectors compared to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-02 T. Guruswamy , L. Gades , A. Miceli , U. Patel , O. Quaranta

Different terrestrial terahertz applications would benefit from large-format arrays, operating in compact and inexpensive cryocoolers at liquid helium temperature with sensitivity, limited by the 300-K background radiation only. A…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-03 Artem Kuzmin , Steffen Doerner , Stefan Singer , Ilya Charaev , Konstantin Ilin , Stefan Wuensch , Michael Siegel

The Simons Observatory (SO) will perform ground-based observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several small and large aperture telescopes, each outfitted with thousands to tens of thousands of superconducting aluminum…

As part of the Advanced LIGO+ (A+) project we have developed, produced, and characterised sensors and electronics to interrogate new optical suspensions. The central element is a displacement sensor with an integrated electromagnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 S J Cooper , C M Mow-Lowry , D Hoyland , J Bryant , A Ubhi , J O'Dell , A Huddart , S Aston , A Vecchio

In this letter, we present the performance of a $100~\mu\mathrm{m}\times 400~\mu\mathrm{m} \times 40~\mathrm{nm}$ tungsten (W) Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) with a critical temperature of 40 mK. This device has a measured noise equivalent…

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a 6-meter telescope designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background simultaneously at 145 GHz, 215 GHz, and 280 GHz with arcminute resolution. Each frequency will have a 32 by 32 element focal plane array…

The ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey, ACES, has mapped $\gtrsim1000$ square arcminutes at 3 mm toward the center of our Galaxy. ACES provides the first large-scale, high-resolution ($\sim2.5$") view of the central $\sim200$…