Cryogenic ultra-low noise HEMT amplifiers board

Broïse, Xavier de la; Bounab, Ayoub

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.11.016

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“…First, the noise in the charge readout channel could be improved by a factor of approximately three by use of high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT) amplifiers instead of the standard junction gate field effect transistor ( JFET) amplifiers that are presently in use. This would enable an ionization rms of the order of 100 eV (79,81). Furthermore, JFETs require an operating temperature above 80 K, whereas HEMTs natively operate at ∼4 K; therefore, the complexity of the readout scheme, as well as the cable links from detectors to the first ionization amplification stage, can be significantly reduced.…”

Section: Ionization-heat Low-temperature Detectorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advances in Bolometer Technology for Fundamental Physics

Pirro

Mauskopf

2017

Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci.

101

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In the last decade, cryogenic bolometers have provided increasingly improved resolution and sensitivity in particle and radiation detectors. Thermal particle detectors have proven their outstanding capabilities in different fields of fundamental physics, especially in rare event detection. Cryogenic incoherent detector arrays designed to detect millimeter-wave photons have helped enable precision measurements of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), providing a unique probe of early universe physics and helping to constrain parameters of particle physics such as the sum of the neutrino masses. We review the latest achievements of cryogenic particle detectors for direct detection searches for dark matter and double-[Formula: see text] decay, as well as for CMB measurements, and we discuss expected improvements aiming to increase the sensitivities of these experiments. An important challenge is the large-scale implementation of arrays of detectors such as transition edge sensors, especially in CMB polarization experiments. We describe the challenges of scaling up to these larger arrays, including fabrication throughput and development of new multiplexing electronics.

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Section: Ionization-heat Low-temperature Detectorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advances in Bolometer Technology for Fundamental Physics

Pirro

Mauskopf

2017

Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci.

101

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“…By replacing the JFET with a HEMT, we have already achieved equivalent charge resolution as the present CDMS JFET amplifier when coupled to a CDMS-II detector, with the room temperature electronics limiting the resolution [18]. Within the EDELWEISS collaboration, progress has been made using a voltage amplifier topology, however testing still needs to be performed with a live detector [19].…”

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A HEMT-based cryogenic charge amplifier with sub-100 eVee ionization resolution for massive semiconductor dark matter detectors

Phipps

Juillard

Sadoulet

et al. 2019

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:

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We present the design and noise performance of a fully cryogenic (T=4 K) HEMT-based charge amplifier for readout of massive semiconductor dark matter detectors operating at sub-Kelvin temperatures. The amplifier has been developed to allow direct detection experiments such as CDMS and EDELWEISS to probe WIMP masses below 10 GeV/c 2 while retaining electromagnetic background discrimination. The amplifier dissipates only 1 mW of power and has a measured noise performance three times better than traditional JFET-based charge amplifiers. The predicted ionization energy resolution using the measured intrinsic amplifier noises and typical detector characteristics is σ E ≈ 100 eV ee (33 electrons). We have measured a calibrated baseline energy resolution of σ E = 91 eV ee when coupled to a live CDMS-II detector. To our knowledge, this is the best resolution achieved on such massive (≈150 pF capacitance) radiation detectors.

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“…In the past years, we have used these Cryo-HEMTs to develop a generic voltage amplifier, that could be easily adapted to different kinds of applications. 8 This amplifier board has been tested at 4.2K and has demonstrated a gain of 50, a power consumption of 1.5mW per channel, and an input noise voltage lower than 0.5nV/ √ Hz at 1kHz, which is very close to noise performance of the Cryo-HEMT themselves. Here the idea is to take full advantage of this previous development and adapt this board as much as possible in order to make a current amplifier for the calibrated MCT.…”

Section: Cryo-hemt Current Amplifiermentioning

confidence: 69%

LWIR quantum efficiency measurements using a calibrated MCT photodiode read by a cryo-HEMT-based amplifier

Bounab

Boulade

Cervera

et al. 2020

X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX

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We present a new development for the measurement of the Quantum Efficiency (QE) of a Mercury Cadmium Telluride (HgCdTe or MCT) detector array in the long wave infrared (LWIR) spectral band. To measure the incident photon flux on the detector, CEA-LETI has designed and produced a calibrated MCT photodiode which, under the test setup conditions used for the QE measurement, delivers a total (dark plus photonic) current of 1nA at 60K. The readout of such a low level of current makes a standard room temperature amplifier inconvenient due to the length of the wires between the focal plane (FP) at cold and the outside of the cryostat (>2m in the current cryostat). A much better approach is to use High Electron Mobility Transistors (Cryo-HEMTs), optimized by CNRS/C2N laboratory for ultra-low noise at very low temperatures (<1K). We have developed a Cryo-HEMT-based transimpedance amplifier to readout the photonic current of the calibrated MCT chip. The paper describes the calibrated photodiode, the Cryo-HEMT amplifier and the test setup, and shows the results of the QE measurements of the LWIR detector.

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Cryogenic ultra-low noise HEMT amplifiers board

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Advances in Bolometer Technology for Fundamental Physics

Advances in Bolometer Technology for Fundamental Physics

A HEMT-based cryogenic charge amplifier with sub-100 eVee ionization resolution for massive semiconductor dark matter detectors

LWIR quantum efficiency measurements using a calibrated MCT photodiode read by a cryo-HEMT-based amplifier

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