Simulations of Noise in Phase-Separated Transition-Edge Sensors for SuperCDMS
arXiv:1109.1327 · doi:10.1007/s10909-012-0555-1
Abstract
We briefly review a simple model of superconducting-normal phase-separation in transition-edge sensors in the SuperCDMS experiment. After discussing some design considerations relevant to the TES in the detectors, we study noise sources in both the phase-separated and phase-uniform cases. Such simulations are valuable for optimizing the critical temperature and TES length of future SuperCDMS detectors.
Low Temperature Detector 14 conference proceedings to be published in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 6 pages, 4 figures