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This letter introduces a novel class of miniaturized, uncooled, and ultra-fast infrared (IR) resonant thermal detectors (RTDs) based on 30%-doped Aluminum Scandium Nitride (AlScN) nanoplates. Exploiting high electromechanical coupling, good…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-27 Aurelio Venditti , Walter Gubinelli , Enise F. Altin , Luca Colombo , Pietro Simeoni , Benyamin Davaji , Matteo Rinaldi

With increasing array size, it is increasingly important to control stray radiation inside the detector chips themselves. We demonstrate this effect with focal plane arrays of absorber coupled Lumped Element microwave Kinetic Inductance…

We present the architectural concept for the Far-Infrared Enhanced Survey Spectrometer (FIRESS) for the Probe Mission for far-IR Astrophysics (PRIMA). FIRESS spans the 24--235 micron range with four R ~ 100 slit-fed grating modules, each…

This paper introduces a thermal infrared detector utilizing a nano-optomechanical silicon nitride (SiN) resonator, equipped with a free-space impedance-matched (FSIM) absorber composed of a platinum (Pt) thin film, offering a broadband…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-12 Paolo Martini , Stefan Emminger , Kostas Kanellopulos , Niklas Luhmann , Markus Piller , Robert Greyson West , Silvan Schmid

The LUXE experiment aims at studying high-field QED in electron-laser and photon-laser interactions, with the 16.5 GeV electron beam of the European XFEL and a laser beam with power of up to 350 TW. The experiment will measure the spectra…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-19 Veta Ghenescu

We present a comprehensive analysis of the 150~MHz radio luminosity function (LF) of star-forming galaxies (SFGs) using deep observations from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey in the ELAIS-N1, Bo\"{o}tes, and Lockman Hole fields. Our sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Wenjie Wang , Zunli Yuan , Hongwei Yu , Yang Liu , Yu Luo , Puxun Wu

We present a multi-chroic kinetic inductance detector (KID) pixel design integrated with a broadband hierarchical phased-array antenna. Each low-frequency pixel consists of four high-frequency pixels. Four passbands are designed from 125 to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Shibo Shu , Andrew Beyer , Peter K. Day , Fabien Defrance , Jack Sayers , Sunil Golwala

The necessity to increase exposure in rare event searches experiments by maintaining a low energy threshold and a good energy resolution leads to segmented detectors as in EDELWEISS (Dark Matter), CUORE (0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta}) or RICOCHET…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-29 J. Colas , M. Calvo , J. Goupy , A. Monfardini , M. De Jesus , J. Billard , A. Juillard , L. Vagneron

We introduce a scattering-type scanning near-field infrared microscope (s-SNIM) for the local scale near- field sample analysis and spectroscopy from room (RT) down to liquid helium (LHe) temperatures. The extension of s-SNIM down to T = 5K…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-02 D. Lang , J. Döring , T. Nörenberg , A. Butykai , I. Kézsmárki , H. Schneider , S. Winnerl , M. Helm , S. C. Kehr , L. M. Eng

Astronomical observations often require the detection of faint signals in the presence of noise, and the near-infrared regime is no exception. In particular, where the application has short exposure time constraints, we are frequently and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 James Gilbert , Alexey Grigoriev , Shanae King , Joice Mathew , Rob Sharp , Annino Vaccarella

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are the most attractive radiation detectors for far-infrared and sub-mm astronomy: They combine ultimate sensitivity with the possibility to create very large detector arrays, in excess of 10…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-04 Joris van Rantwijk , Martin Grim , Dennis van Loon , Stephen Yates , Andrey Baryshev , Jochem Baselmans

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, or MKIDs, are a type of low temperature detector that exhibit intrinsic frequency domain multiplexing at microwave frequencies. We present the first theory and measurements on a MKID based on a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-07-07 B. A. Mazin , D. Sank , S. McHugh , E. A. Lucero , A. Merrill , J. Gao , D. Pappas , D. Moore , J. Zmuidzinas

This work focuses on the characterization of various bulk silicon (Si) samples using Fourier Transform InfraRed (FTIR) and grating spectrometers in order to get them suitable for applications in astronomy. Different samples at different…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-21 B. Uzakbaiuly , D. B. Tanner , J. Ge , J. Degallaix , A. S. Markosyan

Lithium-drifted silicon [Si(Li)] has been used for decades as an ionizing radiation detector in nuclear, particle, and astrophysical experiments, though such detectors have frequently been limited to small sizes (few cm$^2$) and cryogenic…

Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers are a well-established technology with a strong track record in experimental cosmology, making them ideal for current and future radio astronomy instruments. The Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Victoria L. Butler , James J. Bock , Dongwoo T. Chung , Abigail T. Crites , King Lau , Ian Lowe , Dan P. Marrone , Evan C. Mayer , Benjamin J. Vaughan , Michael Zemcov

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are highly scalable detectors that have demonstrated nearly background-limited sensitivity in the far-infrared from high-altitude balloon-borne telescopes and space-like laboratory…

Kinetic inductance detectors are widely used in millimeter- and submillimeter-wave astronomy, benefiting from their fast response and relative ease of fabrication. The GroundBIRD telescope employs microwave kinetic inductance detectors at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yonggil Jo , Alessandro Fasano , Eunil Won , Makoto Hattori , Shunsuke Honda , Chiko Otani , Junya Suzuki , Mike Peel , Kenichi Karatsu , Ricardo Génova-Santos , Miku Tsujii

We introduce BULLKID, an innovative phonon detector consisting of an array of dices acting as particle absorbers sensed by multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs). The dices are carved in a thick crystalline wafer and form a…

We present an approach to fabrication and packaging of integrated photonic devices that utilizes waveguide and detector layers deposited at near-ambient temperature. All lithography is performed with a 365 nm i-line stepper, facilitating…

We report on the development of Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors (TKIDs) suitable to perform X-ray spectroscopy measurements. The aim is to implement MKIDs sensors working in thermal quasi-equilibrium mode to detect X-ray photons as…