Characterizing SixNy absorbers and support beams for far-infrared/submillimeter transition-edge sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7741, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Beyer, A D ^a   Kenyon, M E ^a   Echternach, P M ^a   Eom, B H ^a   Bueno, J ^a,b   Day, P K ^a   Bock, J J ^a   Bradford, C M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

far infrared spectrometer; SixNy thermal properties; submillimeter spectrometer; transition edge sensor

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MEMBRANES; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

BACKGROUND LIMITEDS; FAR INFRARED; FAR-INFRARED SPECTROMETER; NOISE THERMOMETRY; SIXNY THERMAL PROPERTY; SOLID MEMBRANE; SUBMILLIMETER SPECTROMETER; SUBMILLIMETRE; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS; ULTRASENSITIVE;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 77956220241     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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