Grant for MKID development

The SRON team working on MKID detectors, led by Pieter de Visser, secured a grant from the Dutch national funding agency NWO to work on efficient MKID detectors for the LIFE wavelength range. The grant is for a 3 year postdoc and materials to demonstrate high effciency at mid-infrared wavelengths between 4 and 18.5 um, while maintaining the sensitivity to do energy-resolved photon-counting at these wavelengths.