NASA Postdoctoral Program - Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Arrays

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity focuses on the development of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for long-wavelength astrophysics imaging and spectroscopy applications at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The research encompasses three main efforts: commissioning and science with a multicolor MKID-based mm/submm camera for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, development of MKIDs for FIR/short-submm applications, and development of a parametric amplifier using niobium titanium nitride for quantum-limited performance.