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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Kinetic Inductance"”.
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Kinetic Inductance Characterization of Thin 2H-NbSe₂ Superconductor Using Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
… hybrid Al-NbSe₂ resonators and measured the kinetic inductance of thin NbSe₂ at low-temperature and low-photon number limits. In this thesis, we discuss the observed relation between the kinetic inductance and the thickness of the thin NbSe₂. Furthermore, we characterize DC bias current, and …
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Characterization of Magic-angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene using Microwave Techniques
… Its tunability and potentially high kinetic inductance in the superconducting state are desirable properties for high-coherence, small-form-factor superconducting qubits. This thesis presents a promising experimental method to characterize MATBG in the gigahertz-frequency regime, the …
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Precise magnetic control of the supercurrent and fluxoids in nanodevices: Memory effects and diode effects
… model to explain the asymmetry through the high kinetic inductance of the TI film and the inherent inhomogeneity across the array. However, the model predicts a lower level of asymmetry than what was observed experimentally. Interestingly, recent theoretical predictions suggest that the existence …
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Physics of Superconducting Travelling-Wave Parametric Amplifiers
… that achieve amplification through the nonlinear kinetic inductance of superconductors. These devices can have near quantum-limited noise performance, and have important applications in quantum information systems, ground-based and space-based astronomical observatories, and fundamental quantum …
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DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND SCIENCE FORECASTS FOR THE TERAHERTZ INTENSITY MAPPER
… (FIR) telescope fielding novel cryogenic kinetic inductance detectors. TIM combines two long-slit grating spectrometers to cover 240-420 microns at a resolving power of R = 250. Building on the flight heritage of the BLAST and SPIDER balloon programs, TIM will wield sub-arcsecond pointing …
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The terahertz intensity mapper: development of the cryogenic receiver
… coupled to over 7,000 superconducting kinetic inductance detectors to trace star formation through the [CII] 158~\si{\micro\meter} emission line. This thesis presents my contributions to \TIM cryogenic receiver across the full instrument development cycle: from initial conceptual design …
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Superconducting thin film nanoelectronics
… of nanoscale superconducting effects such as kinetic inductance, electrothermal suppression, and current-crowding. Patterning these devices from superconducting thin-films has allowed them to be integrated monolithically with each other and other thin-film superconducting devices such as the …
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Superconducting Nanowire Integrated Circuits for Scalable Cryogenic Memory
… that harness the zero resistance, high kinetic inductance, and nanoscale geometry of ultrathin superconducting wires to implement logic, memory, amplification, and sensing with minimal energy dissipation. Unlike Josephson-junction-based circuits, SNICs support compact, planar layouts …
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Digital and Microwave Superconducting Electronics and Experimental Apparatus
… tunable through thermally controlling their kinetic inductance. To demonstrate the on-chip instrumentation that this library enables, a characterization of the thermal response of our tunable devices by means of an on-chip interferometer is presented. With the increasing complexity of our …
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Nonequilibrium behaviour and quasiparticle heating in thin film superconducting microwave resonators
… in a variety of applications, one of which is as kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs). KIDs are ultra-low noise, highly sensitive, multiplexable detectors, with uses in a wide variety of fields including astrophysics, medical imaging, and particle physics. Resonators are also crucial for supercon- …
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Development of ultracompact, high-sensitivity, space-based instrumentation for far-infrared and submillimeter astronomy
… and niobium to extract their quality factors and kinetic inductance fraction within a 1% accuracy.
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The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (blast-Tng)
… three arrays of polarization-sensitive Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs). MKIDs are superconducting RLC circuits with a resonant frequency that shifts proportionally to the amount of incident radiation. The key feature of MKIDs is that thousands of detectors, each with their own …
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Superconducting Microwave Resonators for Low Loss Sensor Applications
… are very low in loss to create highly sensitive kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs). The multiplexing of hundreds of KIDs into arrays has already been successful in imaging red-shifted galaxies and CO lines. How- ever, to create arrays for lower frequency (sub-100 GHz) and lower intensity signals …
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Development of superconducting microwave resonators for terahertz intensity mapping from balloon and space
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms