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Kenichi KARATSU Satoru MIMA Shugo OGURI Jihoon CHOI R. M. THUSHARA DAMAYANTHI Agnes DOMINJON Noboru FURUKAWA Hirokazu ISHINO Hikaru ISHITSUKA Atsuko KIBAYASHI Yoshiaki KIBE Hitoshi KIUCHI Kensuke KOGA Masato NARUSE Tom NITTA Takashi NOGUCHI Takashi OKADA Chiko OTANI Shigeyuki SEKIGUCHI Yutaro SEKIMOTO Masakazu SEKINE Shibo SHU Osamu TAJIMA Kenta TAKAHASHI Nozomu TOMITA Hiroki WATANABE Mitsuhiro YOSHIDA
A precise measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides us rich information about the universe. In particular, its asymmetric polarization patterns, $B$-modes, are smoking gun signature of inflationary universe. Magnitude of the $B$-modes is order of 10,nK. Its measurement requires a high sensitive millimeter-wave telescope with a large number of superconducting detectors on its focal plane. Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) is appropriate detector for this purpose. MKID camera has been developed in cooperation of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), and Okayama University. Our developments of MKID include: fabrication of high-quality superconducting film; optical components for a camera use; and readout electronics. For performance evaluation of total integrated system of our MKID camera, a calibration system was also developed. The system was incorporated in a 0.1 K dilution refrigerator with modulated polarization source. These developed technologies are applicable to other types of detectors.
Hiroki WATANABE Satoru MIMA Shugo OGURI Mitsuhiro YOSHIDA Masashi HAZUMI Hirokazu ISHINO Hikaru ISHITSUKA Atsuko KIBAYASHI Chiko OTANI Nobuaki SATO Osamu TAJIMA Nozomu TOMITA
Antenna-coupled kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) have recently shown great promise as microwave detection systems with a large number of channels. However, this technique, still has difficulties in eliminating the radiation loss of the resonator signals. To solve this problem, we propose a design in which the absorption area connected to an antenna is located on the ground-side of a coplanar waveguide. Thereby, radiation loss due to leakage from the resonator to the antenna can be considerably reduced. This simple design also enables the use of a contact aligner for fabrication. We have developed KIDs with this design, named as the ground-side absorption (GSA)-KIDs and demonstrated that they have higher quality factors than those of the existing KIDs, while maintaining a good total sensitivity.