A planar two-dimensional superconducting bolometer array for the Green Bank Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 208-219

  Benford, Dominic J ^a   Dicker, Simon R ^b   Wollack, Edward J ^a   Supanich, Mark P ^b   Staguhn, Johannes G ^a   Moseley, S Harvey ^a   Irwin, Kent D ^c   Devlin, Mark J ^b   Chervenak, James A ^a   Chen, Tina C ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometer array; GBT; SQUID multiplexer; Superconducting multiplexer; Transition edge sensor

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETER ARRAYS; GBT; SUPERCONDUCTING MULTIPLEXERS; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES (SQUID) MULTIPLEXERS; TRANSITION EDGE SENSORS;

ARRAYS; BOLOMETERS; CRYOGENICS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MULTIPLEXING; SQUIDS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 19944431696     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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