Model for excess noise in voltage-biased superconducting bolometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 34, 2001, Pages 6229-6235

  Gildemeister, Jan M ^a   Lee, Adrian T ^a   Richards, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; MILLIMETER WAVES; SILICON NITRIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0038448320     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006229     Document Type: Article

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