Antenna-coupled TES bolometers for the SPIDER experiment

✍ Scribed by C.L. Kuo; P. Ade; J.J. Bock; P. Day; A. Goldin; S. Golwala; M. Halpern; G. Hilton; W. Holmes; V. Hristov; K. Irwin; W.C. Jones; M. Kenyon; A.E. Lange; H.G. LeDuc; C. MacTavish; T. Montroy; C.B. Netterfield; P. Rossinot; J. Ruhl; A. Vayonakis; G. Wang; M. Yun; J. Zmuidzinas

• Book ID: 103855370
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 138 KB
• Volume: 559
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.12.092

✦ Synopsis

SPIDER is a proposed balloon-borne experiment designed to search for the imprints of gravity waves on the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The required wide frequency coverage, large number of sensitive detectors, and the stringent power constraints on a balloon are made possible by antenna-coupled TES bolometers. Several prototype devices have been fabricated and optically characterized. Their spectral and angular responses agree well with the theoretical expectations.