Photon noise limited radiation detection with lens-antenna coupled microwave kinetic inductance detectors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Yates, S J C ^a   Baselmans, J J A ^a   Endo, A ^b   Janssen, R M J ^b   Ferrari, L ^a   Diener, P ^a   Baryshev, A M ^a,c  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR ARRAYS; GENERATION-RECOMBINATION NOISE; HIGH SCALABILITIES; KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTORS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PHOTON NOISE; RADIATION DETECTION; SMALL ANTENNA;

INDUCTANCE; LENS ANTENNAS; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 80052096959     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3624846     Document Type: Article

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