CMB Instrumentation
Detector development of wafer-scale bolometer arrays using photolithographic techniques for CMB experiments.
- APEX-SZ:
Galaxy cluster search using Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
UC Berkeley, LBNL, and MPIfR Bonn
12m telescope on Atacama Plateau
320 bolometer array
- South Pole Telescope:
Univ. Chicago, UC Berkeley, Case Western, Harvard CfA, Univ. Illinois, LBNL
10m telescope at South Pole
1000 bolometer array
- PolarBear:
UC Berkeley, LBNL, UC San Diego
3m telescope on White Mountain, CA
Specifically designed for CMB polarization
Test bed for new technologies
"Multi-color" pixels with dual polarization
Phase 1: 320 detectors
Phase 2: 1200 detectors
TES Bolometer Arrays for CMB Polarization and SZ Measurements
Last updated:
12/16/2011
