Superconducting Components for Infrared and Millimeter-Wave Receivers

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1989, Pages 1233-1246

  Richards, Paul L ^a   Hu, Qlng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

FIGURES OF MERIT; SUPERCONDUCTING PHOTON DETECTORS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0024719705     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.34122     Document Type: Note

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