Miguel Daal, UCSB: "Development of X-ray Thermal Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) Arrays for Astrophysics, and MKID Photonic Spectrometers."

Name: Miguel Daal, UCSB: "Development of X-ray Thermal Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) Arrays for Astrophysics, and MKID Photonic Spectrometers."
Start: 2023-03-08T12:00:00-08:00
End: 2023-03-08T13:00:00-08:00
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Wednesday 8 Mar 2023, 12:00 → 13:00 US/Pacific

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Abstract: I will describe my work to develop medium resolution thermal microwave kinetic inductance detector (KID) arrays for x-ray astrophysics applications. MKID principle of operation, science opportunities for this kind of detector, detector design, fabrication, testing and data analysis will be discussed. As this is a work in progress, I will highlight current challenges in the detector development. At the end, I will briefly describe another work in progress to make a fiber fed high resolution spectrometer which uses a photonic circuit to disperse the light and an MKID to detect it with single-photon sensitivity.

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Miguel Daal, UCSB: "Development of X-ray Thermal Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) Arrays for Astrophysics, and MKID Photonic Spectrometers."

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