@article{Observations:3338,
      recid = {3338},
      author = {Tang, Qing Yang},
      title = {Development of Kinetic Inductance Detectors for mm and  sub-mm Observations},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2021-08},
      pages = {112},
      abstract = {Kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) are a type of athermal  pair-breaking superconductingdetectors. Several  superconductors have an energy gap on the order of 0.1eV,  which makes
KIDs well-suited for mm and sub-mm wave  observations. Compared to their counterparts
in this  regime, KIDs have innate multiplexing capabilities which  makes them ideal in experiments
requiring a large number of  detectors. The first half of this thesis discusses the  design,
fabrication, and characterization of a prototype  KID array for CMB observations, made out
of Al/Nb KIDs  coupled to a Nb/SiN/Nb microstrip.
Another target of the  future observations using KIDs will be surveying dusty  star-forming
galaxies (DSFG). They are believed to make up  the light emitted in the universe in the
infrared and  mm-wave regime, known as the cosmic infrared background  (CIB). However,
the link between DSFGs and the sources that  make up the cosmic optical background is still
unclear. The  second half of this thesis describes the characterization  of mm-wave emission
in the SPT-SZ, SPTpol, and Herschel  SPIRE bands of optically-selected galaxies from the
DES  Year 3 catalog.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3338},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3338},
}