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Post-fabrication trimming of a 1024-pixel, single-photon counting, Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector array with a pixel pitch of 150 micron
Wilbert Ras-Vinke, Hessel Schulte, David J. Thoen +5
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors are superconducting resonators capable of single-photon counting with energy resolving capability at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. T…
Demonstrating Single Photon Counting with Kinetic Inductance Detectors from 3.8 to 25 m
Wilbert G. Ras-Vinke, Kevin Kouwenhoven, Jochem J. A. Baselmans +4
One of the primary objectives of modern astronomy is the atmospheric characterization of Earth-like exoplanets at visible and infrared wavelengths. Achieving this goal requires ext…
Recombination of localized quasiparticles in disordered superconductors
Steven A. H. de Rooij, Remko Fermin, Kevin Kouwenhoven +6
Disordered superconductors offer new impedance regimes for quantum circuits, enable a pathway to protected qubits, and can improve superconducting detectors due to their high kinet…
Vibrational modes as the origin of dielectric loss at 0.27$\unicode{x2013}$100 THz in a-SiC:H
B. T. Buijtendorp, A. Endo, W. Jellema +9
Low-loss deposited dielectrics are beneficial for the advancement of superconducting integrated circuits for astronomy. In the microwave band (1$\unicode{x2013}$10 G…
Geometry dependence of TLS noise and loss in a-SiC:H parallel plate capacitors for superconducting microwave resonators
K. Kouwenhoven, G. P. J. van Doorn, B. T. Buijtendorp +6
Parallel plate capacitors (PPC) significantly reduce the size of superconducting microwave resonators, reducing the pixel pitch for arrays of single photon energy-resolving kinetic…
Resolving Power of Visible to Near-Infrared Hybrid -Ta/NbTiN Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Kevin Kouwenhoven, Daniel Fan, Enrico Biancalani +7
Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) are superconducting energy-resolving detectors, sensitive to single photons from the near-infrared to ultraviolet. We study a hybrid KID design…
Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Carbide: A Low-loss Deposited Dielectric for Microwave to Submillimeter Wave Superconducting Circuits
B. T. Buijtendorp, S. Vollebregt, K. Karatsu +6
Low-loss deposited dielectrics will benefit superconducting devices such as integrated superconducting spectrometers, superconducting qubits and kinetic inductance parametric ampli…
Model and Measurements of an Optical Stack for Broadband Visible to Near-IR Absorption in TiN KIDs
K. Kouwenhoven, I. Elwakil, J. van Wingerden +4
Typical materials for optical Kinetic Inductance Detetectors (KIDs) are metals with a natural absorption of 30-50% in the visible and near-infrared. To reach high absorption effici…
Superconducting Microstrip Losses at Microwave and Sub-millimeter wavelengths
S. Hähnle, K. Kouwenhoven, B. Buijtendorp +5
We present a lab-on-chip experiment to accurately measure losses of superconducting microstrip lines at microwave and sub-mm wavelengths. The microstrips are fabricated from NbTiN,…