Prototype high angular resolution LEKIDs for NIKA2 [IMA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08232


The current resolution of the NIKA2 260 GHz arrays is limited by the $1.6\times 1.5 mm^2$ inductor size on the individual pixels. In view of future updates of the instrument, we have developed a prototype array with smaller pixels that is experimentally compared to the current pixel design. We find an in-lab improvement increase of the angular resolution of 8%, promising an on-sky FWHM resolution of 10.2″ using this new pixel design.

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S. Shu, M. Calvo, S. Leclercq, et. al.
Tue, 24 Oct 17
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Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Journal of Low Temperature Detector