Applications for microwave kinetic induction detectors in advanced instrumentation

G Ulbricht, M De Lucia, E Baldwin - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) have emerged as one of
the most promising novel low temperature detector technologies. Their unrivaled scalability …

HerMES: a search for high-redshift dusty galaxies in the HerMES Large Mode Survey–catalogue, number counts and early results

V Asboth, A Conley, J Sayers… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Selecting sources with rising flux densities towards longer wavelengths from
Herschel/Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) maps is an efficient way to …

Superconducting micro-resonator arrays with ideal frequency spacing

X Liu, W Guo, Y Wang, M Dai, LF Wei, B Dober… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present a wafer trimming technique for producing superconducting micro-resonator
arrays with highly uniform frequency spacing. With the light-emitting diode mapper …

Kinetic inductance detectors for the origins space telescope

S Hailey-Dunsheath, RMJ Janssen… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Origins Space Telescope (Origins) will have a 5.9-m diameter primary mirror cooled to
4.5 K and will be equipped with three instruments, two of which will cover the far-IR (λ= 25 to …

Superconducting materials for microwave kinetic inductance detectors

BA Mazin - Handbook of Superconductivity, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors, or MKIDs (Day, Leduc, Mazin, et al. 2003;
Zmuidzinas, 2012), are superconducting resonators suitable for a wide variety of photon and …

Red, redder, reddest: SCUBA-2 imaging of colour-selected Herschel sources

S Duivenvoorden, S Oliver, JM Scudder… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
High-redshift, luminous, dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) constrain the extremity of
galaxy formation theories. The most extreme are discovered through follow-up on …

New method for fitting complex resonance curve to study nonlinear superconducting resonators

X Dai, X Liu, Q He, Y Chen, Z Mai, Z Shi… - Superconductor …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new fitting method that can robustly and accurately fit the complex
transmission curve of a superconducting resonator in the nonlinear regime. This method …

Optical response of lumped-element kinetic-inductance detector arrays

S Shu, M Calvo, J Goupy, A Catalano… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an analysis of the optical response of lumped-element kinetic-inductance
detector arrays, based on the NIKA2 1 mm array. This array has a dual-polarization sensitive …

Peculiar velocity constraints from five-band SZ effect measurements toward RX J1347. 5− 1145 with music and Bolocam from the CSO

J Sayers, M Zemcov, J Glenn, SR Golwala… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect measurements from wide-field
images toward the galaxy cluster RX J1347. 5− 1145 obtained from the Caltech …

Focused connected array antenna as a broadband beam-steering feed for quasi-optical system

AP Laguna, D Cavallo, JJA Baselmans… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This communication proposes a broadband and efficient integrated focal plane array
solution based on a near-field focused connected array of slots. The focused aperture …