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Recent Developments of Commercially Fabricated Horn Antenna-Coupled Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometer Detectors for Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry Experiments

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We report on the successful fabrication of orthomode transducer-coupled transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometer arrays for cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments with the superconductor electronics fabrication facility at SEEQC Inc. Commercial microfabrication foundry could provide increase in detector fabrication throughput for a next-generation CMB experiment, CMB-S4, that would deploy approximately one order of magnitude more detectors than current CMB experiments. We also developed TES bolometers with two TESs in series that have two different superconducting temperatures (\(T_c\)) using a superconducting proximity effect between niobium (Nb) and aluminum-manganese (AlMn) alloy. We will discuss the motivation, design considerations, fabrication processes, test results, and how industrial detector fabrication could be a path to fabricate hundreds of detector wafers for future CMB polarimetry experiments and other experiments that require TESs and superconducting RF circuits.

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This work was supported by: Early Career Research Program, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. CMB-S4 project, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Award Nos. DE-SC0019820 and DE-SC0018711.

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

    Aritoki Suzuki, Elijah Kane, Adrian T. Lee & Tiffany Liu

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

    Elijah Kane, Adrian T. Lee, Tiffany Liu, Christopher Raum & Benjamin Westbrook

  3. Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Adrian T. Lee, Christopher Raum & Benjamin Westbrook

  4. SEEQC, Inc., Elmsford, NY, 10523, USA

    Mario Renzullo, Patrick Truitt, John Vivalda & Daniel Yohannes

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Suzuki, A., Kane, E., Lee, A.T. et al. Recent Developments of Commercially Fabricated Horn Antenna-Coupled Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometer Detectors for Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry Experiments. J Low Temp Phys 209, 1111–1118 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02731-x

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