Micro-fabricated stylus ion trap

Published

August 7, 2013

Author(s)

Kyle S. McKay, Christian L. Arrington, Ehren D. Baca, Jonathan J. Coleman, Yves Colombe, Patrick Finnegan, Dustin A. Hite, Andrew E. Hollowell, Robert Jordens, John D. Jost, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Adam M. Rowen, Ulrich J. Warring, David J. Wineland, David P. Pappas, Andrew C. Wilson

Abstract

An electroformed, three-dimensional stylus Paul trap was designed to confine a single atomic ion for use as a sensor to probe the electric-field noise of proximate surfaces. The trap was microfabricated with the UV-LIGA technique to reduce the distance of the ion from the surface of interest. We detail the fabrication process used to produce a 150 μm tall stylus trap with feature sizes of 40μm. We confined single, laser-cooled, 25Mg+ ions with lifetimes greater than 2 h above the stylus trap in an ultra-high-vacuum environment. After cooling a motional mode of the ion at 4 MHz close to its ground state (n = 0.34 � 0.07), the heating rate of the trap was measured with Raman sideband spectroscopy to be 387 � 15 quanta/s at an ion height of 62 μm above the stylus electrodes.

Citation

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volume

84

Issue

8

Pub Type

Journals

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4817304

Keywords

Fabrication, Electrodeposition, Ion Traps

Citation

McKay, K. , Arrington, C. , Baca, E. , Coleman, J. , Colombe, Y. , Finnegan, P. , Hite, D. , Hollowell, A. , Jordens, R. , Jost, J. , Leibfried, D. , Rowen, A. , Warring, U. , Wineland, D. , Pappas, D. and Wilson, A. (2013), Micro-fabricated stylus ion trap, Review of Scientific Instruments, [online], https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4817304 (Accessed October 9, 2025)