Antenna-coupled niobium bolometers for terahertz spectroscopy

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 412-415

  Santavicca, Daniel F ^b   Reese, Matthew O ^b   True, Alan B ^c   Schmuttenmaer, Charles A ^c   Prober, Daniel E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometers; Submillimeter wave detectors; Superconducting devices

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DETECTORS; HOT ELECTRONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

ROOM TEMPERATURE; SATURATION POWER; SIGNAL RESPONSIVITY; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 34250721379     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.898191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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