Publications (24)
Demonstration of a Quantum Noise Limited Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifier
Nikita Klimovich, Peter Day, Shibo Shu +3
Recent progress in quantum computing and the development of novel detector technologies for astrophysics is driving the need for high-gain, broadband, and quantum-limited amplifier…
MKID development for SuperSpec: an on-chip, mm-wave, filter-bank spectrometer
Erik Shirokoff, Peter S. Barry, Charles M. Bradford +16
SuperSpec is an ultra-compact spectrometer-on-a-chip for millimeter and submillimeter wavelength astronomy. Its very small size, wide spectral bandwidth, and highly multiplexed rea…
Tunable responsivity and bandwidth in microwave kinetic inductance detectors via readout current nonlinearity
Maclean Rouble, Peter Day, Matt Dobbs +3
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) are generally read out with microwave readout tones of high enough amplitude to adequately suppress the noise contribution of the fir…
Modeling of cosmic rays and near-IR photons in aluminum KIDs
Elijah Kane, Chris Albert, Ritoban Basu Thakur +13
The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) is working to develop kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) that can meet the sensitivity targets of a far-infrared spectromet…
Development of dual-polarization LEKIDs for CMB observations
Heather McCarrick, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Peter A. R. Ade +14
We discuss the design considerations and initial measurements from arrays of dual-polarization, lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) nominally designed for cosmic m…
Plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition of titanium nitride for superconducting devices
John Femi-Oyetoro, Sasha Sypkens, Henry LeDuc +4
This study presents a comprehensive investigation into the exceptional superconducting attributes of titanium nitride (TiN) achieved through plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition…
Wide-band Parametric Amplifier Readout and Resolution of Optical Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Nicholas Zobrist, Byeong Ho Eom, Peter Day +9
The energy resolution of a single photon counting Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) can be degraded by noise coming from the primary low temperature amplifier in the det…
Study of the Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology (EPIC)-Intemediate Mission for NASA's Einstein Inflation Probe
James Bock, Abdullah Aljabri, Alex Amblard +35
Measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy have served as the best experimental probe of the early universe to date. The inflationary paradigm, inspired in part b…
SuperSpec: design concept and circuit simulations
Attila Kovács, Peter S. Barry, Charles M. Bradford +14
SuperSpec is a pathfinder for future lithographic spectrometer cameras, which promise to energize extra-galactic astrophysics at (sub)millimeter wavelengths: delivering 200--500 km…
Polarization Sensitive Multi-Chroic MKIDs
Bradley R. Johnson, Daniel Flanigan, Maximilian H. Abitbol +18
We report on the development of scalable prototype microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays tailored for future multi-kilo-pixel experiments that are designed to simulta…
WSPEC: A Waveguide Filter Bank Spectrometer
George Che, Sean Bryan, Matthew Underhill +7
We have designed, fabricated, and measured a 5-channel prototype spectrometer pixel operating in the WR10 band to demonstrate a novel moderate-resolution (R=f/Îf~100), multi-pixel…
Nonlinearity and wideband parametric amplification in an NbTiN microstrip transmission line
Shibo Shu, Nikita Klimovich, Byeong Ho Eom +4
The nonlinear response associated with the current dependence of the superconducting kinetic inductance was studied in capacitively shunted NbTiN microstrip transmission lines. It…
Improving the dynamic range of single photon counting kinetic inductance detectors
Nicholas Zobrist, Nikita Klimovich, Byeong Ho Eom +8
We develop a simple coordinate transformation which can be employed to compensate for the nonlinearity introduced by a Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector's (MKID) homodyne reado…
Membrane-less phonon trapping and resolution enhancement in optical microwave kinetic inductance detectors
Nicholas Zobrist, W. Hawkins Clay, Grégoire Coiffard +4
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) sensitive to light in the ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths are superconducting micro-resonators that are capable of measuring…
Dark matter searches with a 13 meV threshold superconducting sensor array
Christopher Albert, Lanqing Yuan, Jacob Harris +13
Many well-motivated dark matter models predict meV-scale energy deposits in interactions with terrestrial experiments, but this regime is challenging to probe due to a lack of matu…
Design of Dual-Polarization Horn-Coupled Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry
Sean Bryan, Kristi Bradford, George Che +10
Mapping the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background is yielding exciting data on the origin of the universe, the reionization of the universe, and the growth of cosmic stru…
Spatial Mapping and Capacitor Trimming Developments to Improve Usable Pixel Yield in PRIMA FIRESS Kilo-Pixel Arrays
Chris Albert, Jonathon Hunacek, Hien Nguyen +15
The Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) will use 8 kilo-pixel kinetic inductance detector (KID) arrays in its spectrometer module. We present an improved resonant f…
High-sensitivity Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays for the Probe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics
Logan Foote, Chris Albert, Jochem Baselmans +15
Far-infrared (far-IR) astrophysics missions featuring actively cooled telescopes will offer orders of magnitude observing speed improvement at wavelengths where galaxies and formin…
Experimental evidence for a surface distribution of two-level systems in superconducting lithographed microwave resonators
Jiansong Gao, Miguel Daal, Peter Day +6
We present measurements of the temperature-dependent frequency shift of five niobium superconducting coplanar waveguide microresonators with center strip widths ranging from 3 …
A Near Quantum Limited Sub-GHz TiN Kinetic Inductance Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier Operating in a Frequency Translating Mode
Farzad Faramarzi, Sasha Sypkens, Ryan Stephenson +4
We present the design and experimental characterization of a kinetic-inductance traveling-wave parametric amplifier (KI-TWPA) for sub-GHz frequencies. KI-TWPAs amplify signals thro…
A 4-8 GHz Kinetic Inductance Travelling-Wave Parametric Amplifier Using Four-Wave Mixing with Near Quantum-Limit Noise Performance
Farzad Faramarzi, Ryan Stephenson, Sasha Sypkens +3
Kinetic inductance traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (KI-TWPA) have a wide instantaneous bandwidth with near quantum-limited performance and a relatively high dynamic range. Bec…
A Superconducting Phase Shifter and Traveling Wave Kinetic Inductance Parametric Amplifier for W-Band Astronomy
George Che, Samuel Gordon, Peter Day +7
The W-Band () sky contains a plethora of information about star formation, galaxy evolution and the cosmic microwave background. We have designed and fabrica…
In Situ Interferometric Spatial Mapping Of A Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Array
Chris Albert, Ritoban Basu Thakur, Farzad Faramarzi +7
We present a method of spatially mapping microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays, in a dark setup. MKIDs are superconducting natively multiplexed resonators which enabl…
Development of an Array of Kinetic Inductance Magnetometers (KIMs)
Sasha Sypkens, Farzad Faramarzi, Marco Colangelo +6
We describe optimization of a cryogenic magnetometer that uses nonlinear kinetic inductance in superconducting nanowires as the sensitive element instead of a superconducting quant…