Fabrication of an absorber-coupled MKID detector and readout for sub-millimeter and far-infrared astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Brown, Ari David ^a,b   Hsieh, Wen Ting ^a   Moseley, S Harvey ^a   Stevenson, Thomas R ^a   U Yen, Kongpop ^a   Wollack, Edward J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MEI Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

absorber coupled; cryogenic detectors; far infrared; microwave; MKID

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER COUPLED; CRYOGENIC DETECTORS; DETECTOR ARRAYS; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FABRICATION YIELD; FAR-INFRARED; FILLING FRACTIONS; FREE SPACE; KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTORS; LOW IMPEDANCE; MICROSTRIP CIRCUIT; MICROSTRIPES; MKID; OPTICAL POWER; PARALLEL PLATES; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SILICON MEMBRANES; SILICON WALLS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEPPED IMPEDANCE RESONATOR; SUBMICRON; SUBMILLIMETERS; SURFACE IMPEDANCES; TRANSMISSION LINE; VARIABLE LENGTH;

ASTRONOMY; CRYOGENICS; ELECTRIC LINES; FABRICATION; INFRARED DETECTORS; MICROWAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONATORS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77956193803     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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