SHARC II: A caltech submillimeter observatory facility camera with 384 pixels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4855, Issue , 2002, Pages 73-87

  Dowell, C Darren ^a   Allen, Christine A ^b   Babu, Sachidananda ^b   Freund, Minoru M ^b   Gardner, Matthew B ^a   Groseth, Jeffrey ^a   Jhabvala, Murzy ^b   Kovacs, Attila ^a   Lis, Dariusz C ^a   Moseley Jr , S Harvey ^b   Phillips, Thomas G ^a   Silverberg, Robert ^b   Voellmer, George ^b   Yoshida, Hiroshige ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Caltech Submillimeter Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometers; Instrumentation; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BISMUTH; BOLOMETERS; JUNCTION GATE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MICROPHONISM; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TEMPERATURE; THERMISTORS;

BISMUTH FILM; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; LITHOGRAPHED METAL WIRES; SILICON BOLOMETERS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0037790646     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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