Characterising the SCUBA-2 superconducting bolometer arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bintley, Dan ^a   MacIntosh, Michael J ^b   Holland, Wayne S ^b,d   Friberg, Per ^a   Walther, Craig ^a   Atkinson, David ^b   Kelly, Dennis ^b   Gao, Xiaofeng ^b   Ade, Peter A R ^c   Grainger, William ^c   House, Julian ^c   Moncelsi, Lorenzo ^c   Hollister, Matthew I ^d,i   Woodcraft, Adam ^d   Dunare, Camelia ^e   Parkes, William ^e   Walton, Anthony J ^e   Irwin, Kent D ^f   Hilton, Gene C ^f   Niemack, Michael ^f   Reintsema, Carl D ^f   Amiri, Mandana ^g   Burger, Bryce ^g   Halpern, Mark ^g   Hasselfield, Matthew ^g   Hill, Jeff ^h   Kycia, J B ^h   Mugford, C G A ^h   Persaud, Lauren ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

low temperature detector; SCUBA 2; SQUID; submillimeter astronomy; TES; transition edge sensor

Indexed keywords

LOW TEMPERATURE DETECTOR; SCUBA-2; SUB-MILLIMETER ASTRONOMY; TES; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 77956193950     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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