Superconducting tunnel junctions as photon counting detectors in the infrared to the ultraviolet

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 7, Issue 2 PART 3, 1997, Pages 3359-3362

  Verhoeve, P ^a   Rando, N ^a   Peacock, A ^a   Van Dordrecht, A ^a   Poelaert, A ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; RADIATION COUNTERS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0031166331     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.622090     Document Type: Article

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