Voltage-biased high-Tc superconducting infrared bolometers with strong electrothermal feedback

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 7, Issue 2 PART 3, 1997, Pages 2378-2381

  Leet, Adrian T ^a   Gildemeister, Jan M ^a   Lee, Shih Fu ^a   Richards, Paul L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; FEEDBACK; GAIN MEASUREMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOMETERS;

ELECTROTHERMAL FEEDBACK; SUPERCONDUCTING INFRARED BOLOMETERS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0031170227     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.621718     Document Type: Article

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