Silicon nitride micromesh bolometer arrays for SPIRE

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 297-304

  Bock, James J ^a   Glenn, Jason ^b   Grannan, Sabrina M ^a   Irwin, Kent D ^c   Lange, Andrew E ^b   LeDuc, Henry G ^a   Turner, A D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Arrays; Bolometers; Infrared detectors

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; COOLING; DETECTORS; JITTER; MULTIPLEXING; NITRIDES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; SILICON NITRIDE; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SQUIDS; TELESCOPES; TOWERS;

ARRAYS; BOLOMETER ARRAYS; EDGE DETECTORS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LARGE FORMATS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; PRIMARY MIRROR (PM); SQUID CURRENT AMPLIFIER; SQUID MULTIPLEXERS; SUB-MILLIMETER;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 58749112383     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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