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Decay Times of Optical Pulses for Aluminum CPW KIDs
The recombination rate of quasiparticle excitations and metal film thickness are both important factors in determining the sensitivity of kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs). To maximize KID sensitivity, we ai...
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An On-Chip Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy
An on-chip FTS consists of two waveguides coupled to long superconducting transmission lines (STLs) (\(\sim \)∼ 620 mm) using two coupling probes. The signal propagating on one of the STLs is phase-shifted with r...
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Open AccessExtending KIDs to the Mid-IR for Future Space and Suborbital Observatories
The galaxy evolution probe (GEP) is a concept for a probe-class space observatory to study the physical processes related to star formation over cosmic time. To do so, the mid- and far-infrared (IR) spectra of...
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Planar Self-similar Antennas for Broadband Millimeter-Wave Measurements
Self-similar antennas offer extremely broadband functionality and easily scalable designs. Self-similar designs with a four-arm layout are also suited for dual polarization through excitations of opposing arms...
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Shielding patients from dental trauma
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Development of Multi-chroic MKIDs for Next-Generation CMB Polarization Studies
We report on the status of an ongoing effort to develop arrays of horn-coupled, polarization-sensitive microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) that are each sensitive to two spectral bands between 125 a...
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Towards Background-Limited Kinetic Inductance Detectors for a Cryogenic Far-Infrared Space Telescope
Arrays of tens of thousands of sensitive far-infrared detectors coupled to a cryogenic 4–6 m class orbital telescope are needed to trace the assembly of galaxies over cosmic time. The sensitivity of a 4 Kelvin...
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A Titanium Nitride Absorber for Controlling Optical Crosstalk in Horn-Coupled Aluminum LEKID Arrays for Millimeter Wavelengths
We discuss the design and measured performance of a titanium nitride (TiN) mesh absorber we are develo** for controlling optical crosstalk in horn-coupled lumped-element kinetic inductance detector (LEKID) a...
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The effect of premature extraction of primary teeth on the subsequent need for orthodontic treatment
To investigate if premature extraction of primary teeth was associated with orthodontic need in the permanent dentition.
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Optical Measurements of SuperSpec: A Millimeter-Wave On-Chip Spectrometer
SuperSpec is a novel on-chip spectrometer we are develo** for (sub)millimeter wavelength astronomy. Our approach utilizes a filterbank of moderate resolution (
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Design and Performance of SuperSpec: An On-Chip, KID-Based, mm-Wavelength Spectrometer
SuperSpec is an ultra-compact spectrometer-on-a-chip for mm and submm wavelength astronomy. Its very small size, wide spectral bandwidth, and highly multiplexed detector readout will enable construction of pow...
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Critical Temperature Tuning of Ti/TiN Multilayer Films Suitable for Low Temperature Detectors
We present our current progress on the design and test of Ti/TiN multilayer for use in kinetic inductance detectors. Sensors based on sub-stoichiometric TiN film are commonly used in several applications. Howe...
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Patient and parent satisfaction following autotransplantation and associated orthodontic treatment delivered by an interdisciplinary team
To survey patient and parent satisfaction with premolar transplantation and the associated orthodontic treatment.
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Developments of Microresonators Detectors for Neutrino Physics in Milan
Superconducting microwave microresonators are low temperature detectors which are compatible with large-scale multiplexed frequency domain readout. We aim to adapt and further advance the technology of microre...
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Suppressing Beam Systematics in Antenna-Coupled TES Bolometers for CMB Polarimetry
We have deployed arrays of antenna-coupled TES bolometers for cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry in the BICEP2 and Keck array experiments and will deploy similar detectors in SPIDER and Polar-1. Eac...
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Resorption issues
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Recent Results of a New Microwave SQUID Multiplexer
We present recent results of a prototype microwave SQUID multiplexer containing four SQUIDs coupled to GHz frequency resonant circuits and fed with a single microwave readout line. The system is operating at ...
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A Millimeter and Submillimeter Kinetic Inductance Detector Camera
We present results from a demonstration camera using Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) (Day et al. in Nature 425, 817–821, [2003]) at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. The focal plane consists o...
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Electrical and Thermal Characterization of Membrane-Isolated, Antenna-Coupled, TES Bolometers for the SPIDER Experiment
We have fabricated and measured the thermal and DC electrical properties of transition-edge sensing (TES) bolometers to be employed on the SPIDER experiment, a balloon-based observatory for studying the polar...
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Equivalence of the Effects on the Complex Conductivity of Superconductor due to Temperature Change and External Pair Breaking
The responsivity of microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) is related to the derivative of the complex conductivity σ with respect to the quasiparticle density n qp. For thermal qua...
