Mardi 3 juin 2014 à 11h00,
Salle Louis Weil, E424
Orateur : Antonio D’Addabbo (Institut Néel)
"KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTORS : applications for millimeter Astronomy and Particle Physics"
Abstract :
Introduction to Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID) :
Kinetic Inductance in a superconductor, working principle of a KID, a Lumped Element KID (LEKID), responsivity and noise of a LEKID, Frequency Domain Multiplexing
The NIKA instrument : a ground-based camera for the IRAM 30m telescope at Pico Veleta :
goals of the project, the IRAM 30m observatory, the NIKA camera and the electronics, the read-out techniques, latest results from the NIKA campaign, towards NIKA-2 a kilopixel camera
The SPACEKIDs project :
space-based missions : the Cosmics Ray (CR) issue, CR effect on KID and phonon-mediated detection, experimental setup, preliminary results, high energy particles imaging, future perspectives