Proposed cryogenic Q-factor measurement of mirror substrates

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Nietzsche, Sandor ^a   Zimmer, Anja ^a   Vodel, Wolfgang ^a   Thürk, Matthias ^a   Schmidl, Frank ^a   Seidel, Paul ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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EID: 1642410138     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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