Silicon nitride micromesh bolometer array for submillimeter astrophysics

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 28, 2001, Pages 4921-4932

  Turner, Anthony D ^a   Bock, James J ^a   Beeman, Jeffrey W ^b   Glenn, Jason ^c   Hargrave, Peter C ^d   Hristov, Viktor V ^e   Nguyen, Hien T ^a   Rahman, Faiz ^e   Sethuraman, Srinivasan ^a   Woodcraft, Adam L ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHONONS; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTONS; SILICON NITRIDE; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMISTORS; TRANSDUCERS;

THERMAL CONDUCTANCE;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0038827946     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004921     Document Type: Article

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