Design and Bolometer Characterization of the SPT-3G First-Year Focal Plane

Everett, W.; Ade, P. A. R.; Ahmed, Z.; Anderson, A. J.; Austermann, J. E.; Avva, J. S.; Basu Thakur, R.; Bender, A. N.; Benson, B. A.; Carlstrom, J. E.; Carter, F. W.; Cecil, T.; Chang, C. L.; Ding, J.; Gannon, R. N.; Harke-Hosemann, A. H.; Khaire, T.; Kuhlmann, S.; Novosad, V.; Pearson, J.; Posada, C. M.; Saunders, L. J.; Wang, G.; Yefremenko, V.

doi:10.1007/s10909-018-2057-2

Design and Bolometer Characterization of the SPT-3G First-Year Focal Plane

Journal Article · 02 December 2018 · Journal of Low Temperature Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-2057-2· OSTI ID:1576741

Everett, W.; Ade, P. A. R.; Ahmed, Z.; Anderson, A. J.; Austermann, J. E.; Avva, J. S.; Basu Thakur, R.; Bender, A. N.; Benson, B. A.; Carlstrom, J. E.; Carter, F. W.; Cecil, T.; Chang, C. L.; Ding, J.; Gannon, R. N.; Harke-Hosemann, A. H.; Khaire, T.; Kuhlmann, S.; Novosad, V.; Pearson, J. more »

During the austral summer of 2016-2017, the third-generation camera, SPT-3G, was installed on the South Pole Telescope, increasing the detector count in the focal plane by an order of magnitude relative to the previous generation. Designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, SPT-3G contains ten 6 ''-hexagonal modules of detectors, each with 269 trichroic and dual-polarization pixels, read out using 68x frequency-domain multiplexing. Here we discuss design, assembly, and layout of the modules, as well as early performance characterization of the first-year array, including yield and detector properties.

Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science - Office of High Energy Physics; National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1576741

Journal Information:: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 193, Issue 5-6

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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