Fig. 1

a) Schematic of a dual-polarization LEKID array element. Each array element consists of two LEKID resonators sensitive to orthogonal polarizations. The resonators sensitive to the two polarizations are shown in red and in blue. Each resonator consists of an inductor and an interdigitated capacitor (IDC). The LEKID absorbs the incident radiation in the inductor. The detectors are horn coupled and the aperture of the waveguide at the end of the horn is shown as the dashed gray line. b) Photograph of the millimeter-wave absorbers for a single array element. The inductors are “wiggled” to increase the active volume of the absorber and thus the dynamic range of the detectors. The meanders at the end of polarization 2 (shown in red in (a)) are used to decrease the absorption of cross-polarization. c) Photograph of the coupler and resonator capacitor. This photograph is of a ~100 MHz resonatorthat has a large capacitor that is visible in the top of the photo. All detectorsare capacitively coupled to, and read out on, a single transmission line. d) Photograph of a single dual-polarization LEKID array element with ~1 GHz resonance frequencies. e) Photograph of a dual-polarization LEKID array. The white box highlights a single array element, as shown in (d). A single array consists of 64 elements (128 LEKIDs) fabricated on a 100 mm diameter silicon wafer. The arrays are diced into squares and designed to be tiled to fill the focal plane of a telescope.
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