Educational materials

  • Educational material on how to use clean room can be found here.

  • Dr. Bruce Grossan's talk on the technology of the NU transient telescope can be found here. Slides are availabe here, while more technical details can be found here.

  • Educational meterial on EMCCDs can be found here.

  • Educational material on using astro cameras can be found here.

  • Prof. Eric Linders slides on how to succeed in research and build essentials skills for the career development are available here.

MKID Testing

We have collected multi-media guides to our MKIDs program and MKIDs testing. These provide both generally information on MKIDs and how-to lessons specifically on using the ECL Cryogenics Facility tools and equipment and our testing and development program.

  • Introduction to MKIDS at ECL by Mehdi Shafiee is available here.

  • What is an MKID? How does it work? By Dr. Jie Hu. Availabe here.

  • In what frequency range do MKIDs work? What’s the difference between MKIDs for different bands? By Dr. Jie Hu. Availabe here.

  • What are MKIDs measurements? By Dr. Jie Hu. Available here.

  • How do I measure them in our lab? By Dr. Jie Hu. Measurement setup. Measurement procedure. Fitting routine.