THz Hot-Electron Photon Counter

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART I, 2005, Pages 618-621

  Karasik, Boris S ^a   Sergeev, Andrei V ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometers; Radiation detectors; Submillimeter wave detectors; Superconducting devices

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROMACHINING; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SENSORS; SILICON WAFERS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

ENERGY FLUCTUATIONS; HOT-ELECTRON DIRECT DIRECTOR (HEDD); SUBMILLIMETER WAVE DETECTORS; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS (TES);

RADIATION COUNTERS;

EID: 22044456716     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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