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Development of MKIDs in the Optical and Near-Infrared Bands for SPIAKID

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SpectroPhotometric Imaging in Astronomy with Kinetic Inductance Detectors (SPIAKID) aims at designing, building, and deploying on the sky a spectrophotometric imager based on microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) in the optical and near-infrared bands. MKIDs show a fast response and the ability to resolve photon energy compared to the conventional Charge-coupled Devices (CCDs). In this paper, we present the design and simulation of the MKID arrays for SPIAKID. The detectors consist of four arrays with each array of 20,000 lumped-element pixels, and each array will be read with 10 readout lines. The meander material of the resonators is trilayer TiN/Ti/TiN to have better uniformity of the critical temperature across the array. We also present the measurement result for a test array with \(30\times 30\) pixels which is a subset of the designed 2000-pixel array to verify the design and fabrication. The current measured best energy-resolving power \(R = E/\Delta E\) is 2.4 at \(\lambda = 405\,\text {nm}\) and the current medium R is around 1.7. We have also observed that the response of the TiN/Ti/TiN is much smaller than expected.

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This work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) through Grant 835087 (SPIAKID) and UnivEarhS Labex program.

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    Hu Jie, Nicaise Paul, Boussaha Faouzi, Martin Jean-Marc, Chaumont Christine, Marret Alexine, Reix Florent, Firminy Josiane, Vacelet Thibaut, Caffau Elisabetta & Bonifacio Piercarlo

  2. Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Université de Paris, CNRS, 10, Rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, 75013, Paris, France

    Hu Jie, Pham Viet Dung & Piat Michel

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Jie, H., Paul, N., Faouzi, B. et al. Development of MKIDs in the Optical and Near-Infrared Bands for SPIAKID. J Low Temp Phys 214, 113–124 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03018-5

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