Lumped element kinetic inductance detectors maturity for space-borne instruments in the range between 80 and 180 GHz

A. Catalano, A. Benoit, O. Bourrion +7

This work intends to give the state-of-the-art of our knowledge of the performance of LEKIDs at millimetre wavelengths (from 80 to 180~GHz). We evaluate their optical sensitivity u…