Modeling the electromagnetic properties of the SCUBA-2 detectors

Michael Damian Audley; Giampaolo Pisano; Wayne S. Holland; William D. Duncan; William Parkes; Peter A. R. Ade

doi:10.1117/12.551200

8 October 2004 Modeling the electromagnetic properties of the SCUBA-2 detectors

Michael Damian Audley, Giampaolo Pisano, Wayne S. Holland, William D. Duncan, William Parkes, Peter A. R. Ade

Proceedings Volume 5498, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551200
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

SCUBA-2 is the next-generation replacement for SCUBA (Sub-millimetre Common User Bolometer Array) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Operating at 450 and 850 microns, SCUBA-2 fills the focal plane of the telescope with fully-sampled, monolithic bolometer arrays. Each SCUBA-2 pixel uses a quarter-wave slab of silicon with an implanted resistive layer and backshort as an absorber and a superconducting transition edge sensor as a thermometer. In order to verify and optimize the pixel design, we have investigated the electromagnetic behaviour of the detectors, using both a simple transmission-line model and Ansoft HFSS, a finite-element electromagnetic simulator. We used the transmission line model to fit transmission measurements of doped wafers and determined the correct implant dose for the absorbing layer. The more detailed HFSS modelling yielded some unexpected results which led us to modify the pixel design. We also verified that the detectors suffered little loss of sensitivity for off-axis angles up to about 30 degrees.

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Michael Damian Audley, Giampaolo Pisano, Wayne S. Holland, William D. Duncan, William Parkes, and Peter A. R. Ade "Modeling the electromagnetic properties of the SCUBA-2 detectors", Proc. SPIE 5498, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy II, (8 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551200

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