Design considerations for a background limited 350 micron pixel array using lumped element superconducting microresonators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

  McKenney, Christopher M ^a   Leduc, Henry G ^b   Swenson, Loren J ^a,b   Day, Peter K ^b   Eom, Byeong H ^a   Zmuidzinas, Jonas ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Far infrared; Kinetic inductance; Lumped element; Superconductivity; Titanium nitride

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LIMITEDS; CANDIDATE PIXELS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; ELECTRONIC BANDWIDTH; FAR-INFRARED; FOCAL PLANE; GROUND BASED; INTRINSIC DEVICE; KINETIC-INDUCTANCE; LARGE-FORMAT ARRAYS; LUMPED-ELEMENT; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MICRO RESONATORS; PIXEL ARRAYS; RESONATOR QUALITY; RESPONSIVITY; SUBMILLIMETERS;

ASTRONOMY; BANDWIDTH; INFRARED DETECTORS; MULTIPLEXING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONATORS; SUPERCONDUCTING RESONATORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TELESCOPES; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

PIXELS;

EID: 84872058644     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.925759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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