Voltage-biased superconducting transition-edge bolometer with strong electrothermal feedback operated at 370 mk

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3391-3397

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Particle Astrophysics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMETERS; DESIGN; FABRICATION; FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL NOISE; THERMOMETERS;

COMPOSITE VOLTAGE BIASED SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETER; ELECTROTHERMAL FEEDBACK; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICE AMMETER;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0032096041     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.003391     Document Type: Article

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