Download or read book Development of lumped element kinetic inductance detectors for mm-wave astronomy at the IRAM 30 m telescope written by Rösch, Markus and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis studies the development of LEKID arrays for the use in a mm-wave camera for the IRAM 30m telescope. This includes the design and fabrication of the superconducting microresonators, the modeling and optimization of the mm-wave coupling to the detector and the characterization of the arrays at low temperatures. The results obtained brought IRAM to test a prototype instrument at the telescope, where first astronomical results have been achieved, which are also presented in this work.