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Design considerations for a background limited 350 micron pixel array using lumped element superconducting microresonators

McKenney, Christopher M. and Leduc, Henry G. and Swenson, Loren J. and Day, Peter K. and Eom, Byeong H. and Zmuidzinas, Jonas (2012) Design considerations for a background limited 350 micron pixel array using lumped element superconducting microresonators. In: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Proceedings of the SPIE. No.8452. Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 84520S. ISBN 978-0-8194-9153-4. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130220-093457000

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Future submillimeter telescopes will demand arrays with ~ 10^6 pixels to fill the focal plane. MAKO is a 350 µm camera being developed to demonstrate the use of superconducting microresonators to meet the high multiplexing factors required for scaling to large-format arrays while offering background-limited single-pixel sensitivity. Candidate pixel designs must simultaneously meet many requirements. To achieve the desired noise equivalent powers it must efficiently absorb radiation, feature a high responsivity, and exhibit low intrinsic device noise. Additionally, the use of high resonator quality factors of order ~ 10^5 and resonant frequencies of order f_(res) ≈ 100 MHz are desirable in order to reduce the per-pixel bandwidth to a minimum set by telescope scan speeds. This allows a maximum number of pixels to be multiplexed in a fixed electronic bandwidth. Here we present measurement results of the first MAKO prototype array which meets these design requirements while demonstrating sufficient sensitivity for background-limited operation at ground-based, far-infrared telescopes.


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McKenney, Christopher M.0000-0003-4917-4872
Additional Information:© 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). This research was carried out in part at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The devices used in this work were fabricated at the JPL Microdevices Laboratory. This work was supported in part by the Keck Institute for Space Science, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and NASA grant NNX10AC83G. C. McKenney and L. Swenson acknowledge support from the Keck Institute for Space Studies. L. Swenson acknowledges support from the NASA Postdoctoral Program.
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Subject Keywords:lumped-element, superconductivity, kinetic-inductance, far-infrared, titanium nitride
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DOI:10.1117/12.925759
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Official Citation:Christopher M. McKenney ; Henry G. Leduc ; Loren J. Swenson ; Peter K. Day ; Byeong H. Eom and Jonas Zmuidzinas "Design considerations for a background limited 350 micron pixel array using lumped element superconducting microresonators", Proc. SPIE 8452, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 84520S (September 24, 2012); doi:10.1117/12.925759; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.925759
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