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Thermal Links and Microstrip Transmission Lines in SPT-3G Bolometers

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In this work, we have measured the properties of membrane-suspended bolometer thermal links and microstrip transmission lines in the transition-edge sensor arrays for the third-generation camera for South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G). A promising technique for controlling the end point of the release etch that defines the thermal link has been developed. We have also evaluated the microstrip loss in our detectors by measuring the optical efficiency of detectors with different lengths of microstrip line. The loss tangent is sufficiently low for the use in multi-chronic pixels for cosmic microwave background instruments like SPT-3G.

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Acknowledgements

The South Pole Telescope was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant PLR-1248097, in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, in part by the Argonne National Laboratory and the Center for Nanoscale Materials, an Office of Science user facility, was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract DE-AC02- 06CH11357, in part by the NSF Physics Frontier Center under Grant PHY- 1125897 to the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, in part by the Kavli Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation under Grant GBMF 947, in part by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a DOE-OS, HEP User Facility managed by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, and was supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. NWH acknowledges additional support from the NSF CAREER under Grant AST- 0956135. The McGill authors acknowledge funding from in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, in part by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and in part by the Canada Research Chairs program.

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  1. Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

    J. Ding, R. N. Gannon, T. Khaire, V. Novosad, J. Pearson & C. M. Posada

  2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, 24 3YB, UK

    P. A. R. Ade & C. Tucker

  3. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Z. Ahmed, K. D. Irwin, C. L. Kuo, K. T. Story, K. L. Thompson & K. W. Yoon

  4. Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Z. Ahmed, K. D. Irwin, C. L. Kuo, K. T. Story, K. L. Thompson & K. W. Yoon

  5. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA

    Z. Ahmed, K. D. Irwin, C. L. Kuo, K. L. Thompson & K. W. Yoon

  6. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS209, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL, 60510-0500, USA

    A. J. Anderson, B. A. Benson, M. Jonas, D. Kubik, H. Nguyen & A. Rahlin

  7. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    A. J. Anderson, R. Basu Thakur, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, J. E. Carlstrom, F. W. Carter, C. L. Chang, D. Dutcher, J. W. Henning, A. E. Lowitz, S. S. Meyer, S. Padin, Z. Pan, A. Rahlin, L. J. Saunders, E. Shirokoff, J. A. Sobrin & Q. Y. Tang

  8. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA

    J. E. Austermann, E. V. Denison, G. C. Hilton & L. R. Vale

  9. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    J. S. Avva, A. Cukierman, T. de Haan, J. C. Groh, N. L. Harrington, W. L. Holzapfel, N. Huang, O. B. Jeong, A. T. Lee, I. Shirley, A. Suzuki & N. Whitehorn

  10. High-Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

    A. N. Bender, J. E. Carlstrom, F. W. Carter, T. Cecil, C. L. Chang, A. H. Harke-Hosemann, S. Kuhlmann, L. J. Saunders, G. Wang & V. Yefremenko

  11. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    B. A. Benson, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, S. S. Meyer, D. Michalik, E. Shirokoff & Q. Y. Tang

  12. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    J. E. Carlstrom & S. S. Meyer

  13. Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    J. E. Carlstrom, D. Dutcher, S. S. Meyer, Z. Pan & J. A. Sobrin

  14. Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 Rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada

    J. F. Cliche, M. A. Dobbs, A. Gilbert, J. Montgomery & G. I. Noble

  15. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

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  16. CIFAR Program in Cosmology and Gravity, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, M5G 1Z8, Canada

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  17. CASA, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

    W. Everett, N. W. Halverson & J. T. Sayre

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  19. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

    N. W. Halverson

  20. Astronomy Department, University of Illinois, 1002 W. Green St., Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    A. H. Harke-Hosemann, A. M. Kofman, A. Nadolski & J. D. Vieira

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  22. Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

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    A. A. Stark

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    K. Vanderlinde & M. R. Young

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Ding, J., Ade, P.A.R., Ahmed, Z. et al. Thermal Links and Microstrip Transmission Lines in SPT-3G Bolometers. J Low Temp Phys 193, 712–719 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-1907-2

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