Nanobolometers for THz photon detection

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-111

  Karasik, Boris S ^a   Sergeev, Andrei V ^b   Prober, Daniel E ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolometers; infrared detectors; submillimeter wave devices; superconducting photodetectors

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; FAR-INFRARED; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; LOW ENERGY PHOTONS; MIDINFRARED; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; RADIATION POWER; SUBMILLIMETER RADIATION; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; SUPERCONDUCTING PHOTODETECTORS; TERA HERTZ; THZ PHOTON; ULTRASENSITIVE;

ASTROPHYSICS; INFRARED DETECTORS; NANOSENSORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPACE PLATFORMS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 80052484599     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2011.2159560     Document Type: Review

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