Realization of Cold-Electron Bolometers with Ultimate Sensitivity due to Strong Electron Self-Cooling
Paper i proceeding, 2017

We have realized an ultimate photon-noise-limited array of cold-electron bolometers (CEBs) for OLIMPO Balloon Telescope. The CEB array demonstrates very effective electron self-cooling of the absorber from 310 mK to 100 mK without optical power load, P-0, and from 310 mK to 160 mK with P-0=20 pW at v=345 GHz. Due to this effective electron cooling acting as strong electrothermal feedback, the ultimate photon-noise-limited mode of operation is realized in the range of P-0 starting from 8 pW and up to P-0=20 pW at T-ph=330 mK. To our knowledge, there is no analog in the world for bolometers working at electron temperature less than phonon temperature.

2D array

electron cooling

SIN tunnel junction

cold-electron bolometer

photon noise

Författare

Leonid Kuzmin

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Vasily Shamporov

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Alexandra Gunbina

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap

A. L. Pankratov

Novosibirsk State Technical University

Russian Academy of Sciences

A. V. Gordeeva

Novosibirsk State Technical University

V. O. Zbrozhek

Novosibirsk State Technical University

L. S. Revin

Novosibirsk State Technical University

Russian Academy of Sciences

S. Masi

Sapienza Università di Roma

P. de Bernardis

Sapienza Università di Roma

2017 16TH INTERNATIONAL SUPERCONDUCTIVE ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE (ISEC)

2374-4952 (ISSN)

Vol. 2018-January
978-1-5090-5868-6 (ISBN)

16th International Superconductive Electronics Conference (ISEC)
Sorrento, Italy,

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Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

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DOI

10.1109/ISEC.2017.8314194

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