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Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors for millimeter-wave detection

Albert Wandui·Jamie Bock·Clifford Frez·Matthew Hollister·Lorenzo Minutolo·Hien Nguyen·Bryan Steinbach·Anthony Turner·Jonas Zmuidzinas·Roger O'Brient
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Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors (TKIDs) combine the excellent noise performance of traditional bolometers with a radio frequency multiplexing architecture that enables the large detector counts needed for the next generation of millimeter-wave instruments. In this paper, we first discuss the expected noise sources in TKIDs and derive the limits where the phonon noise contribution dominates over the other detector noise terms: generation-recombination, amplifier, and two-level system (TLS) noise. Second, we characterize aluminum TKIDs in a dark environment. We present measurements of TKID resonators with quality factors of about $10^5$ at 80 mK. We also discuss the bolometer thermal conductance, heat capacity, and time constants. These were measured by the use of a resistor on the thermal island to excite the bolometers. These dark aluminum TKIDs demonstrate a noise equivalent power NEP = $2 \times 10^{-17} \mathrm{W}/\mathrm{\sqrt{Hz}} $, with a $1/f$ knee at 0.1 Hz, which provides background noise limited performance for ground-based telescopes observing at 150 GHz.

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Albert Wandui, Jamie Bock, Clifford Frez, Matthew Hollister, Lorenzo Minutolo, Hien Nguyen, Bryan Steinbach, Anthony Turner, Jonas Zmuidzinas, Roger O'Brient. 2020-07-29. Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors for millimeter-wave detection. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0002413

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