Development of transition edge superconducting bolometers for the SAFARI Far-Infrared spectrometer on the SPICA space-borne telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mauskopf, Philip ^a   Morozov, Dmitry ^a   Glowacka, Dorota ^b   Goldie, David ^b   Withington, Stafford ^b   Bruijn, Marcel ^c   DeKorte, Piet ^c   Hoevers, Henk ^c   Ridder, Marcel ^c   Van Der Kuur, Jan ^c   Gao, Jian Rong ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bolometer; Far infrared; Transition edge superconductor

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOLOMETERS; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TELESCOPES;

BOLOMETER; FAR-INFRARED; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; NOISE-EQUIVALENT POWER; SPACE-BORNE; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS; TRANSITION-EDGE; TRANSITION-EDGE SUPERCONDUCTOR;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 52249096371     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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