1. Design of The Kinetic Inductance Detector Based Focal Plane Assembly for The Terahertz Intensity Mapper
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Liu, L. -J., Janssen, R. M. J., Bradford, C. M., Hailey-Dunsheath, S., Fu, J., Filippini, J. P., Aguirre, J. E., Bracks, J. S., Corso, A. J., Groppi, C., Hoh, J., Keenan, R. P., Lowe, I. N., Marrone, D. P., Mauskopf, P., Nie, R., Redford, J., Trumper, I., and Vieira, J. D.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Physics - Applied Physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors - Abstract
We report on the kinetic inductance detector (KID) array focal plane assembly design for the Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM). Each of the 2 arrays consists of 4 wafer-sized dies (quadrants), and the overall assembly must satisfy thermal and mechanical requirements, while maintaining high optical efficiency and a suitable electromagnetic environment for the KIDs. In particular, our design manages to strictly maintain a 50 $\mathrm{\mu m}$ air gap between the array and the horn block. We have prototyped and are now testing a sub-scale assembly which houses a single quadrant for characterization before integration into the full array. The initial test result shows a $>$95% yield, indicating a good performance of our TIM detector packaging design., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2022)
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- 2022
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