Electrical NEP in hot-electron titanium superconducting bolometers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Karasik, Boris S ^a   Pereverzev, Sergey V ^a   Olaya, David ^b,d   Wei, Jian ^b,e   Gershenson, Michael E ^b   Sergeev, Andrei V ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot electron detector; Superconducting bolometer; Terahertz astronomy; Transition edge sensor

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PROGRESS; HOT-ELECTRON DETECTOR; HOT-ELECTRON DIRECT DETECTOR; NOISE-EQUIVALENT POWER; SUB-MILLIMETER; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETER; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS; TERAHERTZ ASTRONOMY; TRANSITION-EDGE; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSOR;

ASTROPHYSICS; INSTRUMENTS; TITANIUM;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52249105090     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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