SO:UK Phase A
Lead Research Organisation:
Cardiff University
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Simon Doyle (Principal Investigator) |
| Description | SO:UK - A major UK contribution to Simons Observatory |
| Amount | £5,288,461 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/X006360/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2029 |
| Description | Simons Observatory: UK technology development and demonstration |
| Amount | £2,553,152 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/X006352/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Title | Superconducting device development |
| Description | This award has been heavily impacted by Covid restrictions but to date has managed to develop the fabrication methods required for realising superconducting detector architectures increasing on-chip filtering and polarisation separation using new facilities available within the Cardiff Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS). The award has also demonstrated a clear development path towards producing science grade detectors arrays using the ICS and other facilities available at Cardiff. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The work completed here will form assist in forming the case for the UK's involvement in a large scale international project to study the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). |
| Description | ICS |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Department | Institute for Compound Semiconductors |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This project has brought expertise in superconducting material characterisation to assess the quality of fabrication the ICS can offer in the field of superconducting device research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The ICS have brought expertise in micro-fabrication techniques and worked with us to find solutions for the development of science grade detector arrays using the facilities available within the ICS cleanroom. |
| Impact | The project is short and has been heavily influence by Covid restrictions so outcomes are in the early / incomplete stages. However, to date we have proven the capability of the ICS to fabricate superconducting devices using a variety of superconductors. We have also demonstrated the ability to fabricate multi-layer superconducting devices key to future detector development. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | University of Manchester |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Through this Phase A award, the team at Cardiff have carried out research to demonstrate the feasibility of using Kinetic Inductance Detectors for use in future Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners at Manchester have been developing readout systems compatible with the Kinetic Inductance Detectors being studied at Cardiff and together we have shown a path to a cost effective means of achieving the detector technology required for future ground based Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. |
| Impact | This collaboration has created a Phase -A report on both the detector and readout technology that has been submitted to the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Start Year | 2019 |