An antenna coupled cold-electron bolometer for high performance cosmology instruments

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology 2007, ISSTT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 93-99

  Kuzmin, Leonid ^a   Yassin, Ghassan ^b   Withington, Stafford ^c   Grimes, Paul ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andreev contact; Cold electron bolometer; Josephson junction; SIN tunnel junction; SQUID readout

Indexed keywords

ANDREEV CONTACTS; CAPACITIVELY COUPLED; COLD ELECTRON BOLOMETERS; JOSEPHSON-JUNCTION; PLANAR CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; SIN TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING DETECTOR; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

BOLOMETERS; DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY BANDS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MOLLUSCS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SHELLFISH; SUBSTRATES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84872056563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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