Equal1 Labs, in collaboration with the United States SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is developing cryogenic control electronics, a critical component in the study of cosmic phenomena such as Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and potential primordial gravitational waves.

At ISCAS2023, Equal1's Vice President of Analog Engineering, Imran Bashir, presented on the role of cryogenic control electronics in studying the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and detecting Dark Energy and Dark Matter.

Dark Matter, an inferred form of invisible matter, constitutes about 85% of the universe's matter. Dark Energy pervades all space and is postulated to be driving the accelerating expansion of the universe, accounting for about 68% of the universe's total energy.

Instruments such as SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices) and TES (Transition Edge Sensor) arrays are integral to studying the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and addressing fundamental questions about our universe.

Just as with quantum computing technologies, the scaling of cryogenic electronics in TES arrays is a crucial consideration, leading Equal1 and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to submit a joint proposal to the Department of Energy (DoE), working on designing critical control electronics using the commercial 22nm FD-SOI CMOS foundry process of GlobalFoundries Inc.