Development of Aluminum LEKIDs for Balloon-Borne Far-IR Spectroscopy

S. Hailey-Dunsheath, A. C. M. Barlis, J. E. Aguirre +6

We are developing lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) designed to achieve background-limited sensitivity for far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopy on a stratospheric bal…