microwave assisted fluidized bed drying is a novel drying technique which reduces drying time and yields higher quality products. in this study the effect of this method on color changes of whole and cut hazelnut kernels was investigated. the parameters of color and resulting total color change, chroma, hue angle and browning index were also calculated during drying in three temperatures (40, 5...

Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) with frequency domain read-out are intrinsically very suitable to use as building blocks for very large arrays. KIDs therefore are an attractive detector option for the SAFARI instrument on SPICA, Millimetron and also for large scale ground based imaging arrays. To study the properties of large KID arrays we have fabricated 400 pixels array made from 40 nm th...

We report a superconducting kinetic inductance memory (SKIM) element, which can be controlled exclusively by the bias supercurrent, without involving magnetic fields and heating elements. The SKIM is nonvolatile memory. device made of two Nb Dayem bridges, it operate reliably up to 2.8 K. achieved error rate as low one in 105 operations.

A practical approach to determining the distributed capacitance and inductance of individual metamaterial resonators is demonstrated. By loading a set of lumped capacitors onto the resonator, the resonance frequency can be measured as a function of the load capacitance. The capacitance and inductance values of the resonator are then determined by relating the equivalent circuit model to the mea...

We have fabricated and tested single photon detectors based on a current biased superconducting niobium nanowire patterned into a meander. The detectors are fabricated from high quality, ultra high vacuum sputtered niobium thin films on a sapphire substrate. For detection of single optical photons, we show that the superconductor’s intrinsic kinetic inductance does not limit the reset time of t...

This paper demonstrates an on-chip di/dt detector circuit. The di/dt detector circuit consists of a power supply line, an underlying spiral inductor and an amplifier. The mutual inductor induces a di/dt proportional voltage, and the amplifier amplifies and outputs the value. The measurement results show that the di/dt detector output and the voltage difference between a resistor have good agree...

We report the detection of a gate-tunable kinetic inductance in hybrid $\mathrm{In}\mathrm{As}$/$\mathrm{Al}$ nanowire. For this purpose, we embed nanowire into quarter-wave coplanar waveguide resonator and measure resonance frequency circuit. find that can be changed via gate voltage controls electron density proximitized semiconductor thus inductance. Applying Mattis-Bardeen theory, extract d...

Benjamin A. Mazin, Daniel Sank, Sean McHugh, Erik A. Lucero, Andrew Merrill, Jiansong Gao, David Pappas, David Moore, and Jonas Zmuidzinas Department of Physics, University of California–Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9530, USA National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328, USA Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Ca...

High resolution maps of polarization anisotropies the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are in high demand, since discovery primordial B-Modes patterns would confirm inflationary phase Universe that have taken place before last scattering CMB at recombination epoch. Transition Edge Sensors (TES) and Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKID) predominant detector technologies cryogenic array based inst...

A 1.2-V fully integrated 0.35m inductively degenerated common source CMOS low-noise amplifier has been demonstrated at 2.4 GHz in this paper. A simple common source configuration can be operated at lower voltage and has lower output impedance when compared with a conventional high output impedance cascode LNA circuit topology. The input matching inductance, output matching inductance, and sourc...