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Prototype Magnetic Calorimeter Arrays with Buried Wiring for the Lynx X-Ray MicrocalorimeterMetallic magnetic calorimeter (MMC) technology is a leading contender for detectors for the Lynx X-ray Microcalorimeter, which is an imaging spectrometer consisting of an array of greater than 100,000 pixels. The fabrication of such large arrays presents a challenge when attempting to route the superconducting wiring from the pixels to the multiplexed readout. If the wiring is designed to be planar, then an aggressive, submicron scale wiring pitch has to be employed, which is technically challenging to design and fabricate on account of the requirements of low inductance, low cross-talk, high critical currents and high yield. An alternative way to achieve large scale, high density wiring is through the use of multiple buried metal layers, planarized by Chemical Mechanical Planarization. This approach is well-suited for connecting thousands of pixels on a large focal plane to readout chips, and also for fabricating sensor meander coils with narrow line widths, which helps in increasing the sensor inductance and thus alleviates stray inductance issues associated with the wiring in large size arrays. In this work we describe the fabrication of high sensor inductance MMC arrays implementing Lynx concepts and incorporating multiple layers of buried Nb wiring. The detector array is composed of three sub-arrays with pixels optimized to meet the different science driven performance requirements of Lynx. In two of the sub-arrays we adopt a thermal multiplexing scheme to read out pixels by coupling 25 absorbers to a single sensor through thermal links of varied thermal conductance. We demonstrate the successful fabrication of multi-absorber MMCs with fine pitch pixels in very large size arrays.
Document ID
20190028278
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Poster
Authors
Devasia, Archana M.
(Maryland Univ. Baltimore County (UMBC) Baltimore, MD, United States)
Balvin, Manuel A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bandler, Simon R.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bolkhovsky, Valdimir
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Nagler, Peter C.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Ryu, Kevin
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Smith, Stephen J.
(Maryland Univ. Baltimore County (UMBC) Baltimore, MD, United States)
Stevenson, Thomas R.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Yoon, Wonsik
(Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) Lanham, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
July 29, 2019
Publication Date
July 22, 2019
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN70977
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD)
Location: Milano
Country: Italy
Start Date: July 22, 2019
End Date: July 26, 2019
Sponsors: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: 80GSFC17M0002
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Solid-State Physics
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