Thin Film Thermometer for Cryogenic Temperature

Abstract
A new type of cryogenic thermometer using sputtered zirconium nitride film has been developed. The sensor was integrated on a sapphire substrate by reactive sputtering equipment, and its sensing area was only 1 mm long and 2 mm wide. The thin film sensor has wide sensitive region from 300 to 2 K, or even lower and fast response time to detect second sound in superfluid helium. Magnetic field dependence of the sensor is small. Under the magnetic field of 6 T, the magnetoresistance was smaller by two orders of magnitude than that of carbon-glass resistance thermometer at 4.2 K. The effect of the longitudinal magnetic field of 6 T to temperature is less than 5 mK.

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