@article{8243bf289951439ab3d3082868ff6237,
title = "The south pole telescope sz-receiver detectors",
abstract = "We will discuss the design, fabrication, and testing of a 960-element TES array installed on the new 10 meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). This array is designed to survey for galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, which is the in- verse-Compton scattering of Cosmic Microwave Background photons by plasma bound to clusters of galaxies. The SPT bolometer array consists of fully lithographed spider-web absorbers fabricated on adhesive-bonded silicon wafers with an embedded metal back plane. The absorbers are connected to aluminum-titanium bilayer TESs with a transition temperature of approximately 550 mK. Additional normal-metal features adjust the devices' thermal properties to suit our readout system and observational strategy. The focal plane is cooled using a commercial, closed cycle, pulse-tube refrigerator and a three-stage helium sorption refrigerator with a 250 mK base temperature.",
keywords = "Bolometers, Superconducting devices, Transition edge sensors",
author = "Erik Shirokoff and Benson, {Bradford A.} and Bleem, {Lindsey E.} and Chang, {Clarence L.} and Cho, {Hsiao Mei} and Crites, {Abigail T.} and Dobbs, {Matt A.} and Holzapfel, {William L.} and Trevor Lanting and Lee, {Adrian T.} and Martin Lueker and Jared Mehl and Thomas Plagge and Spieler, {Helmuth G.} and Vieira, {Joaquin D.}",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received August 27, 2008. First published June 30, 2009; current version published July 10, 2009. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grants OPP-0130612 and OPP-0638937. E. Shirokoff, B. A. Benson, W. L. Holzapfel, A. T. Lee, M. Lueker, J. Mehl and T. Plagge are with the University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA (e-mail: shiro@berkeley.edu). L. E. Bleem, C. L. Chang, A. T. Crites and J. D. Vieira are with the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL 0637 USA. H.-M. Cho is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bulder, CO 80305 USA. M. A. Dobbs and T. Lanting are with McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T5 Canada. H. G. Spieler is with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720 USA. Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018229",
year = "2009",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1109/TASC.2009.2018229",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "19",
pages = "517--519",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity",
issn = "1051-8223",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "3",
}