@article{THESIS,
      recid = {12960},
      author = {Brooks, Elyssa},
      title = {Developments of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2024-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {In this thesis, I will cover the fabrication, testing, and  analysis of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs)  for both THz and mm-wave spectroscopy. MKIDs are a detector  technology that enables large numbers of highly-sensistive  mm/submm detectors to be read out using a small number of  readout lines, which enables large-format spectroscopy.  They can be produced such that a small piece of silicon  contains both the spectrometer and detector. The RAxDEx  project produced prototype THz spectrometers with a novel,  in-chip rectangular waveguide. THz spectroscopy with MKIDs  will enable the coupling of large fields-of-view to  multi-kilopixel detectors. These devices would drastically  improve our ability to map the cooling gas around galactic  fountains by using hyperfine cooling lines among other uses  for far-infrared spectroscopy. I present prototype dark  MKIDs for RaxDEx that match design and noise  specifications. In addition, SPT-SLIM is a project to  create a mm-wave spectrometer for line intensity mapping  with the South Pole Telescope. Line intensity mapping is  expected to dramatically increase our knowledge of large  scale cosmological structure, particularly in regards to  galaxies that are too dim to be detected directly. I will  present both dark and optical measurements from SPT-SLIM  devices from initial prototypes to the final design  submodules. Finally, I will cover an initial analysis of  how SPT-SLIM will use unresolved, high-redshift galaxies to  constrain the CO power spectrum and the luminosity  function.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12960},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12960},
}