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Current Projects:
  SO
  MKID Development
  AME/GBT
  Spectral Distortions
  CMB-S4
  Systematic Errors

Design Studies:
  PICO
  CMB-S4
  EPIC-IM

Past Projects:
  CalSat
  Cryogenic Motor
  PICO Optics
  EBEX
  CPR (BCP)
  GLP (arXiv)
  SKIP (arXiv)
  PIPER (arXiv)
  APEX-SZ
  EPIC-IM Optics
  Systematic Errors
  Map Making
  CLOVER
  Achromatic HWP
  MAXIPOL
  MAXIMA

Research Support:
  NSF
  NASA
  Columbia RISE
  ONR

Professional Links:
  UVA Astronomy
  Columbia Physics
  NASA/GSFC
  Berkeley
  Oxford
  Cardiff AIG
  U of M Physics

Photos and Video:
  Balloon Flight
  EBEX-NA
  MAXIPOL
  MAXIMA-2

Brad Johnson

Multi-Chroic MKIDs:

"Development of Multi-Chroic MKIDs for Next-Generation CMB Polarization Studies." Johnson, B. R., Flanigan, D., et al. (2018) J. Low Temp. Phys., 193, 3-4, 103-112. (arXiv)

"Kinetic inductance detectors for measuring the polarization of the cosmic microwave background", Dr. Daniel Flanigan, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2018.

"Polarization sensitive Multi-Chroic MKIDs." Johnson, B. R., Flanigan, D., et al. (2016) Proc. SPIE, 9914, 99140X. (arXiv)


Dual-Polarization LEKIDs:

"Design and performance of kinetic inductance detectors for cosmic microwave background polarimetry.", Dr. Heather McCarrick, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 2018.

"Design and performance of dual-polarization lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors." McCarrick, H., Jones, G., Johnson, B. R., et al. (2018) A&A, 610, A45. (arXiv)

"Development of dual-polarization LEKIDs for CMB observations." McCarrick, H., et al. (2016) Proc. SPIE, 9914, 99140O. (arXiv)


Single-Polarization LEKIDs:

"High quality factor manganese-doped aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors sensitive to frequencies below 100 GHz." Jones et al. (2017) Appl. Phys. Lett., 110, 222601. (arXiv) Our work was featured on the cover of the journal.

"Magnetic field dependence of the internal quality factor and noise performance of lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors." Flanigan, D., Johnson, B. R., et al. (2016) Appl. Phys. Lett., 110, 222601. (arXiv)

"Photon noise from chaotic and coherent millimeter-wave sources measured with horn-coupled, aluminum lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors." Flanigan, D., McCarrick, H., Jones, G., Johnson, B. R., et al. (2016) Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, 083504. (arXiv)

"A Titanium Nitride Absorber for Reducing Optical Cross-Talk in Horn-Coupled Aluminum LEKIDs for Millimeter Wavelengths." McCarrick, H., Flanigan, D., Jones, G., Johnson, B. R., et al. (2016) J. Low Temp. Phys., 184, 1, 154-160. (arXiv)

"Horn-Coupled, Commercially-Fabricated Aluminum Lumped-Element Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Millimeter Wavelengths." McCarrick, H., Flanigan, D., Jones, G., Johnson, B. R., et al. (2014) Rev. Sci. Instrum., 85, 1, 123117. (arXiv)

"A LEKID-based CMB instrument design for large-scale observations in Greenland." Araujo, D., et al. (2014) Proc. SPIE, 9153, 91530W. (arXiv)