Design Blueprint: Thermal Design of a Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometer Array: Conductance, Noise-Equivalent Power and Saturation Margin

Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24147761): This paper presents a computed design for a TES bolometer array intended for cryogenic detector arrays, with its performance, resource budgets and margins derived from stated assumptions rather than asserted. The headline results are: phonon-noise-equivalent power per pixel of 15.4 attowatt per root hertz; saturation power per pixel of 8.44 pW; ratio of saturation power to the stated optical load Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-12
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24148189
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Superconducting and THz Device Technology
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Design Blueprint: Thermal Design of a Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometer Array: Conductance, Noise-Equivalent Power and Saturation Margin

William Alexander Aldred
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Superconducting and THz Device Technology
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Design Blueprint: Thermal Design of a Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometer Array: Conductance, Noise-Equivalent Power and Saturation Margin

William Alexander Aldred
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Abstract

Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24147761): This paper presents a computed design for a TES bolometer array intended for cryogenic detector arrays, with its performance, resource budgets and margins derived from stated assumptions rather than asserted. The headline results are: phonon-noise-equivalent power per pixel of 15.4 attowatt per root hertz; saturation power per pixel of 8.44 pW; ratio of saturation power to the stated optical load Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Superconducting and THz Device Technology
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