Large format antenna coupled micorwave kinetic iinductance detector arrays for radioastronomy

Author

Baryshev, A.M. ; Baselmans, J.J.A. ; Yates, Stephen J. C. ; Ferrari, Lorenzo ; Bisigello, Laura ; Janssen, Reinier M. J. ; Endo, Akira ; Klapwijk, Teunis M. ; Klein, Bernhard ; Heyminck, Stefan ; Gusten, Rolf

Author_Institution

Netherlands Inst. for Space Res. (SRON), Utrecht, Netherlands

fYear

2014

fDate

14-19 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The realization of large format fully sampled sensitive focal plane arrays of direct detectors is a long standing development goal for advanced astrophysical instrumentation for submillimeter wavelengths. Recently a superconducting microwave kinetic inductors detector (MKID) technology has been developed which offers high sensitivity and unprecedented multiplexing ratio. We report on development of MKID antenna coupled MKID arrays for 350μm and 850μm atmospheric transmission windows each containing of order of 5000 and 1000 detectors per superconducting chip respectively. We present design and measurement results on first detector chips including pixel responsivity, noise distribution and detector yields.

Keywords

antenna arrays; microwave antennas; radioastronomy; MKID antenna; MKID technology; advanced astrophysical instrumentation; atmospheric transmission windows; large format antenna coupled micorwave kinetic iinductance detector arrays; microwave kinetic inductors detector; radioastronomy; sensitive focal plane arrays; submillimeter wavelengths; Antenna arrays; Atmospheric measurements; Detectors; Extraterrestrial measurements; Kinetic theory; Microwave measurement; Superconducting microwave devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956150

Filename

6956150