Antenna-coupled TES bolometer arrays for BICEP2/Keck and SPIDER

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Orlando, A ^a   Aikin, R W ^a   Amiri, M ^b   Bock, J J ^a,c   Bonetti, J A ^c   Brevik, J A ^a   Burger, B ^b   Chattopadthyay, G ^c   Day, P K ^c   Filippini, J P ^a   Golwala, S R ^a   Halpern, M ^b   Hasselfield, M ^b   Hilton, G C ^d   Irwin, K D ^d   Kenyon, M ^c   Kovac, J M ^e   Kuo, C L ^f,g   Lange, A E ^a   Leduc, H G ^c   Llombart, N ^c   Nguyen, H T ^c   Ogburn, R W ^a,f,g   Reintsema, C D ^d   Runyan, M C ^a   Staniszewski, Z ^c   Sudiwala, R ^a,h   Teply, G ^a   Trangsrud, A R ^a   Turner, A D ^c   Wilson, P ^c   more..

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; millimeter wave instrumentation; polarization; TES bolometer arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA-COUPLED; B-MODE POLARIZATION; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; DETECTOR ARRAYS; DETECTOR DESIGN; DETECTOR PARAMETERS; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; FABRICATION YIELD; FOCAL PLANE; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; MULTI-CHANNEL; NOISE PERFORMANCE; PLANAR ARRAYS; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE; SOUTH POLE; SQUID MULTIPLEXER; TES BOLOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN; UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA;

ANTENNAS; ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; COSMOLOGY; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SENSORS;

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EID: 77956213886     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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