Sensitivity improvements of SIS photon detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 579-586

  Matsuo, Hiroshi ^a   Shi, Sheng Cai ^a   Noguchi, Takashi ^a   Akahori, Hiromichi ^b   Sato, Toshio ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Direct detectors; Far infrared; Submillimeter wave; Superconductors: tunnel junctions; Video detectors

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GAS DETECTORS; MICROMETERS; NIOBIUM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELESCOPES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TRANSITION METALS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; TUNNELS;

DIRECT DETECTORS; FAR-INFRARED; SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE; SUPERCONDUCTORS: TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; VIDEO DETECTORS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 48049120340     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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