History
Simultaneous detection of ionization and heat with semiconductors at low temperature was first proposed by Blas Cabrera, Lawrence M. Krauss, and Frank Wilczek.
CDMS collected WIMP search data in a shallow underground site at Stanford University through 2002, and has operated (with collaboration from the University of Minnesota) in the Soudan Mine since 2003. Its results so far are negative, but CDMS is able to provide the most sensitive limits on WIMP dark matter in many interesting models. A new detector with interleaved electrodes, more mass, and even better background rejection is currently taking data at Soudan, under the name of SuperCDMS.
Read more about this topic: Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
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