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Superconductor Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors: System Model of the Readout Electronics
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier, Radioengineering. 2009, vol. 18, č. 2, s. 178-182. ISSN 1210-2512, Radioengineering, Vol 18, Iss 2, Pp 178-182 (2009)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- This paper deals with the readout electronics needed by superconductor Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs). MKIDs are typically implemented in the form of cryogenic-cooled high quality factor microwave resonator. The natural frequency of these resonators changes as a millimeter or sub-millimeter wave radiation impinges on the resonator itself. A quantitative system model of the readout electronics (very similar to that of a vector network analyzer) has been implemented under ADS environment and tested by several simulation experiments. The developed model is a tool to further optimize the readout electronic and to design the frequency allocation of parallel-connected MKIDs resonators. The applications of MKIDs will be in microwave and millimeter-wave radiometric imaging as well as in radio-astronomy focal plane arrays.
- Subjects :
- radiation detector
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
resonators
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
MKID
superconductors
microwave radiometers
radio-astronomy
lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
lcsh:TK1-9971
radioastronomy
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scopus-Elsevier, Radioengineering. 2009, vol. 18, č. 2, s. 178-182. ISSN 1210-2512, Radioengineering, Vol 18, Iss 2, Pp 178-182 (2009)
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..02033c855baa168c5ceb2748efb378ed