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Publications (18)

astro-ph.IM2018

Modelling the Performance of Single-Photon Counting Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Josie Dzifa Akua Parrianen, Andreas Papageorgiou, Simon Doyle +1

Using conventional superconductor theory we discuss and validate a model that describes the energy-resolving performance of an aluminium LEKID to single-photon absorption events. W…

astro-ph.IM2026

SuMAC: On-sky demonstration of multi-pixel on-chip millimeter-wave spectroscopy at the Large Millimeter Telescope

Marcial Becerril-Tapia, Peter S. Barry, Christopher S. Benson +29

The SuperSpec-MUSCAT Collaboration (SuMAC) is an effort to operate SuperSpec spectrometers in the MUSCAT instrument at the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT). SuperSpec is an on-chip…

astro-ph.IM2018

Eliminating stray radiation inside large area imaging arrays

Stephen J. C. Yates, Simon Doyle, Peter Barry +8

With increasing array size, it is increasingly important to control stray radiation inside the detector chips themselves. We demonstrate this effect with focal plane arrays of abso…

astro-ph.IM2017

Photon noise from chaotic and coherent millimeter-wave sources measured with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors

Daniel Flanigan, Heather McCarrick, Glenn Jones +18

We report photon-noise limited performance of horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors at millimeter wavelengths. The detectors are illuminated by a milli…

astro-ph.IM2016

Lumped Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors for space applications

Alessandro Monfardini, Jochem Baselmans, Alain Benoit +12

Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID) are now routinely used in ground-based telescopes. Large arrays, deployed in formats up to kilopixels, exhibit state-of-the-art performance at mi…

astro-ph.IM2012

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…