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Anomalous Frequency Noise from the Megahertz Channelizing Resonators in Frequency-Division Multiplexed Transition Edge Sensor Readout

Superconducting lithographed resonators have a broad range of current and potential applications in the multiplexed readout of cryogenic detectors. Here, we focus on LC bandpass filters with resonances in the 1-5 MHz range used in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 John Groh , Kam Arnold , Jessica Avva , Darcy Barron , Kevin T. Crowley , Matt Dobbs , Tijmen de Haan , William Holzapfel , Adrian Lee , Lindsay Ng Lowry , Joshua Montgomery , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Aritoki Suzuki , Nathan Whitehorn

Multiple Coulomb Scattering in Thin Silicon

We present a measurement of multiple Coulomb scattering of 1 to 6 GeV/c electrons in thin (50-140 um) silicon targets. The data were obtained with the EUDET telescope Aconite at DESY and are compared to parametrisations as used in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-16 Niklaus Berger , Armen Buniatyan , Patrick Eckert , Fabian Förster , Roman Gredig , Oxana Kovalenko , Moritz Kiehn , Raphael Philipp , André Schöning , Dirk Wiedner

On Stokes polarimeters for high precision CMB measurements and mm Astronomy measurements

Several on-going and future experiments use a Stokes polarimeter (i.e. a rotating wave plate followed by a steady polarizer and by an unpolarized detector) to measure the small polarized component of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-17 Maria Salatino , Paolo de Bernardis

Design and test results of different aluminum coating layers on the sCMOS sensors for soft X-ray detection

In recent years, tremendous progress has been made on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors for applications as X-ray detectors. To shield the visible light in X-ray detection, a blocking filter of aluminum is commonly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-28 W. X. Wang , Z. X. Ling , C. Zhang , W. M. Yuan , S. N. Zhang

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of an Air Sensitive Dichalcogenide Through an Encapsulating Layer

Many atomically thin exfoliated 2D materials degrade when exposed to ambient conditions. They can be protected and investigated by means of transport and optical measurements if they are encapsulated between chemically inert single layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Jose Martinez-Castro , Diego Mauro , Árpád Pásztor , Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama , Alessandro Scarfato , Alberto F. Morpurgo , Christoph Renner

Bespoke magnetic field design for a magnetically shielded cold atom interferometer

Quantum sensors based on cold atoms are being developed which produce measurements of unprecedented accuracy. Due to shifts in atomic energy levels, quantum sensors often have stringent requirements on their internal magnetic field…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 P. J. Hobson , J. Vovrosh , B. Stray , M. Packer , J. Winch , N. Holmes , F. Hayati , K. McGovern , R. Bowtell , M. J. Brookes , K. Bongs , T. M. Fromhold , M. Holynski

Topological Effects on the Magnetoconductivity in Topological Insulators

Three-dimensional strong topological insulators (TIs) guarantee the existence of a 2-D conducting surface state which completely covers the surface of the TI. The TI surface state necessarily wraps around the TI's top, bottom, and two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vincent E. Sacksteder , Kristin Bjorg Arnardottir , Stefan Kettemann , Ivan A. Shelykh

Design, Fabrication, Characterization and Reliability Study of CMOS-MEMS Lorentz-Force Magnetometers

This article presents several design techniques to fabricate micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) using standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes. They were applied to fabricate high yield CMOS-MEMS shielded…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-24 Juan Valle , Josep-María Sánchez-Chiva , Daniel Fernández , Jordi Madrenas

Development of a microwave SQUID multiplexer for magnetic microbolometers

The search for primordial B-modes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) requires highly sensitive and scalable detector systems. The magnetic microbolometer (MMB) is an emerging detector concept that exploits the magnetic properties of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-30 N. Müller , J. Bonilla-Neira , J. Geria , M. García Redondo , L. Ferreyro , M. Hampel , M. Wegner , A. Almela , S. Kempf

Minimal material, maximum coverage: Silicon Tracking System for high-occupancy conditions

Silicon strip sensors have long been a reliable technology for particle detection. Here, we push the limits of silicon tracking detectors by targeting an unprecedentedly low material budget of 2%-7% $X_0$ in an 8-layer 4 m$^2$ detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-21 M. Teklishyn , L. M. Collazo Sánchez , U. Frankenfeld , J. M. Heuser , O. Kshyvanskyi , J. Lehnert , D. A. Ramírez Zaldivar , D. Rodríguez Garcés , A. Rodríguez Rodríguez , C. J. Schmidt , P. Semeniuk , M. Shiroya , A. Sharma , A. Toia , O. Vasylyev

The Simons Observatory: Astro2020 Decadal Project Whitepaper

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment sited on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile that promises to provide breakthrough discoveries in fundamental physics, cosmology, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 The Simons Observatory Collaboration , Maximilian H. Abitbol , Shunsuke Adachi , Peter Ade , James Aguirre , Zeeshan Ahmed , Simone Aiola , Aamir Ali , David Alonso , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Kam Arnold , Peter Ashton , Zachary Atkins , Jason Austermann , Humna Awan , Carlo Baccigalupi , Taylor Baildon , Anton Baleato Lizancos , Darcy Barron , Nick Battaglia , Richard Battye , Eric Baxter , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Rachel Bean , Dominic Beck , Shawn Beckman , Benjamin Beringue , Tanay Bhandarkar , Sanah Bhimani , Federico Bianchini , Steven Boada , David Boettger , Boris Bolliet , J. Richard Bond , Julian Borrill , Michael L. Brown , Sarah Marie Bruno , Sean Bryan , Erminia Calabrese , Victoria Calafut , Paolo Calisse , Julien Carron , Fred. M Carl , Juan Cayuso , Anthony Challinor , Grace Chesmore , Yuji Chinone , Jens Chluba , Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho , Steve Choi , Susan Clark , Philip Clarke , Carlo Contaldi , Gabriele Coppi , Nicholas F. Cothard , Kevin Coughlin , Will Coulton , Devin Crichton , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Ari Cukierman , John M. D'Ewart , Rolando Dünner , Tijmen de Haan , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley Dober , Cody J. Duell , Shannon Duff , Adri Duivenvoorden , Jo Dunkley , Hamza El Bouhargani , Josquin Errard , Giulio Fabbian , Stephen Feeney , James Fergusson , Simone Ferraro , Pedro Fluxà , Katherine Freese , Josef C. Frisch , Andrei Frolov , George Fuller , Nicholas Galitzki , Patricio A. Gallardo , Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi , Jiansong Gao , Eric Gawiser , Martina Gerbino , Vera Gluscevic , Neil Goeckner-Wald , Joseph Golec , Sam Gordon , Megan Gralla , Daniel Green , Arpi Grigorian , John Groh , Chris Groppi , Yilun Guan , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Mark Halpern , Dongwon Han , Peter Hargrave , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Matthew Hasselfield , Makoto Hattori , Victor Haynes , Masashi Hazumi , Erin Healy , Shawn W. Henderson , Brandon Hensley , Carlos Hervias-Caimapo , Charles A. Hill , J. Colin Hill , Gene Hilton , Matt Hilton , Adam D. Hincks , Gary Hinshaw , Renée Hložek , Shirley Ho , Shuay-Pwu Patty Ho , Thuong D. Hoang , Jonathan Hoh , Selim C. Hotinli , Zhiqi Huang , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , John P. Hughes , Anna Ijjas , Margaret Ikape , Kent Irwin , Andrew H. Jaffe , Bhuvnesh Jain , Oliver Jeong , Matthew Johnson , Daisuke Kaneko , Ethan D. Karpel , Nobuhiko Katayama , Brian Keating , Reijo Keskitalo , Theodore Kisner , Kenji Kiuchi , Jeff Klein , Kenda Knowles , Anna Kofman , Brian Koopman , Arthur Kosowsky , Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff , Akito Kusaka , Phil LaPlante , Jacob Lashner , Adrian Lee , Eunseong Lee , Antony Lewis , Yaqiong Li , Zack Li , Michele Limon , Eric Linder , Jia Liu , Carlos Lopez-Caraballo , Thibaut Louis , Marius Lungu , Mathew Madhavacheril , Daisy Mak , Felipe Maldonado , Hamdi Mani , Ben Mates , Frederick Matsuda , Loïc Maurin , Phil Mauskopf , Andrew May , Nialh McCallum , Heather McCarrick , Chris McKenney , Jeff McMahon , P. Daniel Meerburg , James Mertens , Joel Meyers , Amber Miller , Mark Mirmelstein , Kavilan Moodley , Jenna Moore , Moritz Munchmeyer , Charles Munson , Masaaki Murata , Sigurd Naess , Toshiya Namikawa , Federico Nati , Martin Navaroli , Laura Newburgh , Ho Nam Nguyen , Andrina Nicola , Mike Niemack , Haruki Nishino , Yume Nishinomiya , John Orlowski-Scherer , Luca Pagano , Bruce Partridge , Francesca Perrotta , Phumlani Phakathi , Lucio Piccirillo , Elena Pierpaoli , Giampaolo Pisano , Davide Poletti , Roberto Puddu , Giuseppe Puglisi , Chris Raum , Christian L. Reichardt , Mathieu Remazeilles , Yoel Rephaeli , Dominik Riechers , Felipe Rojas , Aditya Rotti , Anirban Roy , Sharon Sadeh , Yuki Sakurai , Maria Salatino , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Lauren Saunders , Emmanuel Schaan , Marcel Schmittfull , Neelima Sehgal , Joseph Seibert , Uros Seljak , Paul Shellard , Blake Sherwin , Meir Shimon , Carlos Sierra , Jonathan Sievers , Cristobal Sifon , Precious Sikhosana , Maximiliano Silva-Feaver , Sara M. Simon , Adrian Sinclair , Kendrick Smith , Wuhyun Sohn , Rita Sonka , David Spergel , Jacob Spisak , Suzanne T. Staggs , George Stein , Jason R. Stevens , Radek Stompor , Aritoki Suzuki , Osamu Tajima , Satoru Takakura , Grant Teply , Daniel B. Thomas , Ben Thorne , Robert Thornton , Hy Trac , Jesse Treu , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Sunny Vagnozzi , Alexander van Engelen , Jeff Van Lanen , Daniel D. Van Winkle , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Clara Vergès , Michael Vissers , Kasey Wagoner , Samantha Walker , Yuhan Wang , Jon Ward , Ben Westbrook , Nathan Whitehorn , Jason Williams , Joel Williams , Edward Wollack , Zhilei Xu , Siavash Yasini , Edward Young , Byeonghee Yu , Cyndia Yu , Fernando Zago , Mario Zannoni , Hezi Zhang , Kaiwen Zheng , Ningfeng Zhu , Andrea Zonca

Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER

We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER. A primary science goal of SPIDER is to measure the large-scale B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background in search of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Johannes Hubmayr , Jason E. Austermann , James A. Beall , Daniel T. Becker , Steven J. Benton , A. Stevie Bergman , J. Richard Bond , Sean Bryan , Shannon M. Duff , Adri J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Aurelien A. Fraisse , Mathew Galloway , Anne E. Gambrel , K. Ganga , Arpi L. Grigorian , Riccardo Gualtieri , Jon E. Gudmundsson , John W. Hartley , M. Halpern , Gene C. Hilton , William C. Jones , Jeffrey J. McMahon , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Johanna M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , Benjamin Osherson , Ivan Padilla , Alexandra S. Rahlin , B. Racine , John Ruhl , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , Xue Song , Joel N. Ullom , Jeff Van Lanen , Michael R. Vissers , I. K. Wehus , Shyang Wen , D. V. Wiebe , Edward Young

Acceptance Tests of more than 10 000 Photomultiplier Tubes for the multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules of the IceCube Upgrade

More than 10,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with a diameter of 80 mm will be installed in multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules (mDOMs) of the IceCube Upgrade. These have been tested and pre-calibrated at two sites. A throughput of more than…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , S. K. Agarwalla , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , J. M. Alameddine , N. M. Amin , K. Andeen , C. Argüelles , Y. Ashida , S. Athanasiadou , L. Ausborm , S. N. Axani , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , M. Baricevic , S. W. Barwick , S. Bash , V. Basu , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , J. Becker Tjus , J. Beise , C. Bellenghi , C. Benning , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , E. Blaufuss , L. Bloom , S. Blot , F. Bontempo , J. Y. Book Motzkin , C. Boscolo Meneguolo , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , J. Braun , B. Brinson , J. Brostean-Kaiser , L. Brusa , R. T. Burley , D. Butterfield , M. A. Campana , I. Caracas , K. Carloni , J. Carpio , S. Chattopadhyay , N. Chau , Z. Chen , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , B. A. Clark , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , A. Connolly , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , R. Corley , P. Correa , D. F. Cowen , P. Dave , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , D. Delgado , S. Deng , A. Desai , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , T. DeYoung , A. Diaz , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , P. Dierichs , M. Dittmer , A. Domi , L. Draper , H. Dujmovic , K. Dutta , M. A. DuVernois , T. Ehrhardt , L. Eidenschink , A. Eimer , P. Eller , E. Ellinger , S. El Mentawi , D. Elsässer , R. Engel , H. Erpenbeck , J. Evans , P. A. Evenson , K. L. Fan , K. Fang , K. Farrag , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , N. Feigl , S. Fiedlschuster , C. Finley , L. Fischer , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , S. Fukami , P. Fürst , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , A. Garcia , M. Garcia , G. Garg , E. Genton , L. Gerhardt , A. Ghadimi , C. Girard-Carillo , C. Glaser , T. Glüsenkamp , J. G. Gonzalez , S. Goswami , A. Granados , D. Grant , S. J. Gray , O. Gries , S. Griffin , S. Griswold , K. M. Groth , C. Günther , P. Gutjahr , C. Ha , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , L. Halve , F. Halzen , H. Hamdaoui , M. Ha Minh , M. Handt , K. Hanson , J. Hardin , A. A. Harnisch , P. Hatch , A. Haungs , J. Häußler , K. Helbing , J. Hellrung , J. Hermannsgabner , L. Heuermann , N. Heyer , S. Hickford , A. Hidvegi , C. Hill , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , S. Hori , K. Hoshina , M. Hostert , W. Hou , T. Huber , K. Hultqvist , M. Hünnefeld , R. Hussain , K. Hymon , A. Ishihara , W. Iwakiri , M. Jacquart , O. Janik , M. Jansson , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , M. Jin , B. J. P. Jones , R. Joppe , N. Kamp , D. Kang , W. Kang , X. Kang , A. Kappes , D. Kappesser , L. Kardum , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , A. Katil , U. Katz , M. Kauer , J. L. Kelley , M. Khanal , A. Khatee Zathul , A. Kheirandish , J. Kiryluk , A. Kochocki , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , T. Kontrimas , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kossatz , P. Koundal , M. Kovacevich , M. Kowalski , T. Kozynets , J. Krishnamoorthi , K. Kruiswijk , E. Krupczak , A. Kumar , E. Kun , N. Kurahashi , N. Lad , C. Lagunas Gualda , M. Lamoureux , M. J. Larson , S. Latseva , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , J. W. Lee , K. Leonard DeHolton , A. Leszczyńska , J. Liao , M. Lincetto , Y. T. Liu , M. Liubarska , E. Lohfink , C. Love , C. J. Lozano Mariscal , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , W. Luszczak , Y. Lyu , J. Madsen , E. Magnus , K. B. M. Mahn , Y. Makino , E. Manao , S. Mancina , W. Marie Sainte , I. C. Mariş , S. Marka , Z. Marka , M. Marsee , I. Martinez-Soler , R. Maruyama , F. Mayhew , F. McNally , J. V. Mead , K. Meagher , S. Mechbal , A. Medina , M. Meier , Y. Merckx , L. Merten , J. Micallef , J. Mitchell , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , Y. Morii , R. Morse , M. Moulai , T. Mukherjee , R. Naab , R. Nagai , M. Nakos , U. Naumann , J. Necker , A. Negi , L. Neste , M. Neumann , H. Niederhausen , M. U. Nisa , K. Noda , A. Noell , A. Novikov , A. Obertacke Pollmann , V. O'Dell , B. Oeyen , A. Olivas , R. Orsoe , J. Osborn , E. O'Sullivan , H. Pandya , N. Park , G. K. Parker , E. N. Paudel , L. Paul , C. Pérez de los Heros , T. Pernice , J. Peterson , S. Philippen , A. Pizzuto , M. Plum , A. Pontén , Y. Popovych , M. Prado Rodriguez , B. Pries , R. Procter-Murphy , G. T. Przybylski , C. Raab , J. Rack-Helleis , M. Ravn , K. Rawlins , Z. Rechav , A. Rehman , P. Reichherzer , E. Resconi , S. Reusch , W. Rhode , B. Riedel , A. Rifaie , E. J. Roberts , S. Robertson , S. Rodan , G. Roellinghoff , M. Rongen , A. Rosted , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , L. Ruohan , D. Ryckbosch , I. Safa , J. Saffer , D. Salazar-Gallegos , P. Sampathkumar , A. Sandrock , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , S. Sarkar , J. Savelberg , P. Savina , P. Schaile , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , S. Schindler , B. Schlüter , F. Schlüter , N. Schmeisser , T. Schmidt , J. Schneider , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , M. Seikh , M. Seo , S. Seunarine , P. Sevle Myhr , R. Shah , S. Shefali , N. Shimizu , M. Silva , B. Skrzypek , B. Smithers , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , A. Søgaard , D. Soldin , P. Soldin , G. Sommani , C. Spannfellner , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , T. Stezelberger , T. Stürwald , T. Stuttard , K. H. Sulanke , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , M. Thiesmeyer , W. G. Thompson , J. Thwaites , S. Tilav , K. Tollefson , C. Tönnis , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , A. Trettin , R. Turcotte , J. P. Twagirayezu , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , A. K. Upadhyay , K. Upshaw , A. Vaidyanathan , N. Valtonen-Mattila , J. Vandenbroucke , N. van Eijndhoven , D. Vannerom , J. van Santen , J. Vara , J. Veitch-Michaelis , M. Venugopal , M. Vereecken , S. Verpoest , D. Veske , A. Vijai , C. Walck , A. Wang , C. Weaver , P. Weigel , A. Weindl , J. Weldert , A. Y. Wen , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , M. Weyrauch , N. Whitehorn , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , L. Witthaus , A. Wolf , M. Wolf , G. Wrede , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , E. Yildizci , S. Yoshida , R. Young , S. Yu , T. Yuan , Z. Zhang , P. Zhelnin , P. Zilberman , M. Zimmerman

Pre-Production and Quality Assurance of the Mu2e Calorimeter Silicon Photomultipliers

The Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter has to provide precise information on energy, time and position for $\sim$100 MeV electrons. It is composed of 1348 un-doped CsI crystals, each coupled to two large area Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 M. Cordelli , F. Cervelli , E. Diociaiuti , S. Donati , R. Donghia , S. Di Falco , A. Ferrari , S. Giovannella , F. Happacher , M. Martini , L. Morescalchi , S. Miscetti , S. Muller , E. Pedreschi , G. Pezzullo , I. Sarra , F. Spinella

Development and characterization of the readout system for POLARBEAR-2

POLARBEAR-2 is a next-generation receiver for precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)). Scheduled to deploy in early 2015, it will observe alongside the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 D. Barron , P. A. R. Ade , Y. Akiba , C. Aleman , K. Arnold , M. Atlas , A. Bender , D. Boettger , J. Borrill , S. Chapman , Y. Chinone , A. Cukierman , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , J. Errard , G. Fabbian , C. Feng , A. Gilbert , N. Goeckner-Wald , N. W. Halverson , M. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , M. Hazumi , W. L. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , Y. Inoue , G. C. Jaehnig , A. H. Jaffe , N. Katayama , B. Keating , Z. Kermish , R. Keskitalo , T. Kisner , M. Le Jeune , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , E. Linder , F. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , X. Meng , H. Morii , M. J. Myers , M. Navaroli , H. Nishino , T. Okamura , H. Paar , J. Peloton , D. Poletti , C. Raum , G. Rebeiz , C. L. Reichardt , P. L. Richards , C. Ross , K. Rotermund , D. E. Schenck , B. D. Sherwin , I. Shirley , M. Sholl , P. Siritanasak , G. Smecher , N. Stebor , B. Steinbach , R. Stompor , A. Suzuki , J. Suzuki , S. Takada , S. Takakura , T. Tomaru , B. Wilson , A. Yadav , H. Yamaguchi , O. Zahn

Study of silicon photomultipliers for the readout of scintillator crystals in the proposed GRIPS \gamma-ray astronomy mission

Among the top priorities for high-energy astronomy in the coming decade are sensitive surveys in the hard X-ray/soft \gamma-ray (10-600 keV) and medium-energy \gamma-ray (0.2-80 MeV) bands. Historically, observations in the soft and medium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 Alexei Ulyanov , Lorraine Hanlon , Sheila McBreen , Suzanne Foley , David Byrne

On-sky performance of the SPT-3G frequency-domain multiplexed readout

Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a unique AC voltage bias that is selected by a resonant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. N. Bender , A. J. Anderson , J. S. Avva , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , P. S. Barry , R. Basu Thakur , B. A. Benson , L. Bryant , K. Byrum , J. E. Carlstrom , F. W. Carter , T. W. Cecil , C. L. Chang , H. -M. Cho , J. F. Cliche , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , E. V. Denison , J. Ding , M. A. Dobbs , D. Dutcher , W. Everett , K. R. Ferguson , A. Foster , J. Fu , J. Gallicchio , A. E. Gambrel , R. W. Gardner , A. Gilbert , J. C. Groh , S. Guns , R. Guyser , N. W. Halverson , A. H. Harke-Hosemann , N. L. Harrington , J. W. Henning , G. C. Hilton , W. L. Holzapfel , D. Howe , N. Huang , K. D. Irwin , O. B. Jeong , M. Jonas , A. Jones , T. S. Khaire , A. M. Kofman , M. Korman , D. L. Kubik , S. Kuhlmann , C. -L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , E. M. Leitch , A. E. Lowitz , S. S. Meyer , D. Michalik , J. Montgomery , A. Nadolski , T. Natoli , H. Nguyen , G. I. Noble , V. Novosad , S. Padin , Z. Pan , P. Paschos , J. Pearson , C. M. Posada , W. Quan , A. Rahlin , D. Riebel , J. E. Ruhl , J. T. Sayre , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher , J. A. Sobrin , A. A. Stark , J. Stephen , K. T. Story , A. Suzuki , K. L. Thompson , C. Tucker , L. R. Vale , K. Vanderlinde , J. D. Vieira , G. Wang , N. Whitehorn , V. Yefremenko , K. W. Yoon , M. R. Young

High-impedence NbSi TES sensors for studying the cosmic microwave background radiation

Precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are crucial in cosmology, because any proposed model of the universe must account for the features of this radiation. Of all CMB measurements that the scientific community has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Claudia Nones , Stefanos Marnieros , Alain Benoit , Laurent Bergé , Aurelien Bideau , Philippe Camus , Louis Dumoulin , Alessandro Monfardini , Olivier Rigaut

SLAC Microresonator RF (SMuRF) Electronics: A tone-tracking readout system for superconducting microwave resonator arrays

We describe the newest generation of the SLAC Microresonator RF (SMuRF) electronics, a warm digital control and readout system for microwave-frequency resonator-based cryogenic detector and multiplexer systems such as microwave SQUID…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-08 Cyndia Yu , Zeeshan Ahmed , Josef C. Frisch , Shawn W. Henderson , Max Silva-Feaver , Kam Arnold , David Brown , Jake Connors , Ari J. Cukierman , J. Mitch D'Ewart , Bradley J. Dober , John E. Dusatko , Gunther Haller , Ryan Herbst , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Chao-Lin Kuo , John A. B. Mates , Larry Ruckman , Joel Ullom , Leila Vale , Daniel D. Van Winkle , Jesus Vasquez , Edward Young

High-temperature and Abrasion Resistant Selective Solar Absorber under Ambient Environment

Selective solar absorbers (SSAs) with high performance are the key to concentrated solar power systems. Optical metamaterials are emerging as a promising strategy to enhance selective photon absorption, however, the high-temperature…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Yanpei Tian , Lijuan Qian , Xiaojie Liu , Alok Ghanekar , Jun Liu , Thomas Thundat , Gang Xiao , Yi Zheng