Automated SQUID tuning procedure for kilo-pixel arrays of TES bolometers on the Atacama cosmology telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Battistelli, E S ^a,b   Amiri, M ^a   Burger, B ^a   Devlin, M J ^c   Dicker, S R ^c   Doriese, W B ^d   Dunner R ^e   Fishery, R P ^f   Fowler, J W ^f   Halpern, M ^a   Hasselfield, M ^a   Hilton, G C ^d   Hincks, A D ^f   Irwin, K D ^d   Kaul, M ^c   Klein, J ^c   Knotek, S ^a   Lau, J M ^g   Limon, M ^h   Marriage, T A ^f   Niemack, M D ^f   Page, L ^f   Reintsema, C D ^d   Staggs, S T ^f   Swetz, D S ^c   Switzer, E R ^f   Thornton, R J ^c   Zhao, Y ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Array tuning; CMB observations; Mm and sub mm arrays; Multi channel electronics; SQUIDs; TES bolometers

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COSMOLOGY; CRITICAL CURRENTS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; NANOSENSORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SQUIDS; STAGES; STANDARDS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TELESCOPES; TUNING;

ARRAY TUNING; ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE; ATACAMA DESERT; BOLOMETER ARRAYS; CMB OBSERVATIONS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; DYNAMIC RANGE; FEEDBACK CURRENTS; MM AND SUB-MM ARRAYS; MULTI CHANNEL; MULTI-CHANNEL ELECTRONICS; PIXEL ARRAYS; READ-OUT ELECTRONICS; RESPONSE CURVES; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; TES BOLOMETERS; TIME DOMAINS; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSOR; UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA; VANCOUVER;

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES;

EID: 52249097377     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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