Leaky lens antennas and Kinetic Inductance Detectors - The solution for THz integration

Author

Neto, Augusto ; Llombart, Nuria ; Lager, Ioan E. ; Baselmans, J.J.A. ; Baryshev, A. ; Yates, S.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Math. & Comput. Sci., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2013

fDate

6-10 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

354

Lastpage

356

Abstract

The fabrication and measurements of the leaky lens antenna integrated with a cryogenically cooled Kinetic Inductance Detector is discussed. The obtained system represents the key component of ultra sensitive THz receivers operating over a bandwidth ranging between 0.15 GHz and 1.5 THz. The system has been manufactured and characterised in terms of power efficiency and radiation pattern properties. The measured performance is in excellent agreement with the one predicted by means of numerical simulations. The results demonstrate the feasibility of manufacturing leaky lens antennas at THz frequencies, together with the repeatability of the advocated process.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; lens antennas; numerical analysis; THz frequencies; cryogenically cooled kinetic inductance detector; leaky lens antennas; numerical simulations; power efficiency; radiation pattern properties; ultra sensitive THz receivers; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Detectors; Dielectrics; Lenses; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2013 European

Conference_Location

Nuremberg

Type

conf

Filename

6686664