Characterization of single layer anti-reflective coatings for bolometer-based rare event searches

© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. Combining analysis from phonon signals and photon signals is a powerful technique for reducing backgrounds in bolometer-based rare event searches. Anti-reflective coatings can significantly increase the performance of the secondary light-sensing bolomete...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hansen, EV, DePorzio, N, Winslow, L
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136338
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Summary:© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. Combining analysis from phonon signals and photon signals is a powerful technique for reducing backgrounds in bolometer-based rare event searches. Anti-reflective coatings can significantly increase the performance of the secondary light-sensing bolometer in these experiments. As a first step toward these improvements, coatings of SiO2, HfO2, and TiO2 on Ge and Si wafers were fabricated and characterized at room temperature and multiple angles of incidence.