Characterization of Transition Edge Sensors for the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zhao, Y ^a   Allen, C ^b   Amiri, M ^c   Appel, J W ^a   Battistell, E S ^c,h   Burger, B ^c   Chervenak, J A ^b   Dahlen, A J ^a   Denny, S ^a   Devlin, M J ^d   Dicker, S R ^d   Doriese, W B ^e   Dunner R ^a,i   Essinger Hileman, T ^a   Fisher, R P ^a   Fowler, J W ^a   Halpern, M ^c   Hilton, G C ^e   Hincks, A D ^a   Irwin, K D ^e   Jarosik, N ^a   Klein, J ^d   Lau, J M ^f   Marriage, T A ^a   Martocci, K L ^g   Moseley, S H ^b   Niemack, M D ^a   Page, L ^a   Parker, L P ^a   Sederberg, A ^a   Staggs, S T ^a   Stryzak, O R ^a   Swetz, D S ^d   Switzer, E R ^a   Thornton, R J ^d   Wollack, E J ^b   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^h SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

ⁱ PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Array; Bolometer; CMB; Complex impedance; Cosmology; Detector; Noise; Transition edge sensor

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; CAMERAS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COSMOLOGY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; NANOSENSORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLYMER BLENDS; SENSORS; TELESCOPES; TEMPERATURE SCALES;

ARRAY; ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE; BOLOMETER; BOLOMETER ARRAYS; CMB; COMPLEX IMPEDANCE; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; DETECTOR; DETECTOR ARRAYS; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; INDEPENDENT SETS; NOISE; SUB-MILLIMETER; TRANSITION EDGE SENSOR; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS; TURN-AROUND;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52249089599     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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