Applications for Microwave Kinetic Induction Detectors in Advanced Instrumentation

Abstract

In recent years Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) have emerged as one of the most promising novel low temperature detector technologies. Their unrivaled scalability makes them very attractive for many modern applications and scientific instruments. In this paper we intend to give an overview of how and where MKIDs are currently being used or are suggested to be used in the future. MKID based projects are ongoing or proposed for observational astronomy, particle physics, material science and THz imaging, and the goal of this review is to provide an easily usable and thorough list of possible starting points for more in-depth literature research on the many areas profiting from kinetic inductance detectors.

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• NIKA: A millimeter-wave kinetic inductance camera
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• The next-generation BLASTPol experiment
• The KISS experiment
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• Searches for light dark matter using condensed matter systems
• The Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx): Search for axions at 90 GHz with Kinetic Inductance Detectors
• Transition Edge Sensors: Physics and Applications
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• 1/f noise in quantum nanoscience
• Detection and Calibration of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils for Dark Matter and Neutrino Scattering Experiments
• Limitations to the energy resolution of single-photon sensitive Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
• Frequency Domain Multiplexing for MKIDs: Comparing the Xilinx ZCU111 RFSoC with their new 2x2 RFSoC board
• A graduate laboratory experiment to set up a photon-counting detector using MKIDs
• Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Dynamics in a MoRe-Based Superconducting Resonator under IR Excitation
• Operational Optimization to Maximize Dynamic Range in EXCLAIM Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
• Low-dimensional platforms for single photon detection