The bolometric focal plane array of the POLARBEAR CMB experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Arnold, Kam ^a   Ade, P A R ^b   Anthony, A E ^c   Barron, D ^d   Boettger, D ^d   Borrill, J ^e,f   Chapman, S ^g   Chinone, Y ^k   Dobbs, M A ^h   Errard, J ^j   Fabbian, G ^j   Flanigan, D ^a   Fuller, G ^d   Ghribi, A ^a   Grainger, W ^m   Halverson, N ^c   Hasegawa, M ^k   Hattori, K ^k   Hazumi, M ^k   Holzapfel, W L ^a   Howard, J ^a   Hyland, P ⁱ   Jaffe, A ^l   Keating, B ^d   Kermish, Z ^a   Kisner, T ^e   Le Jeune, M ^j   Lee, A T ^a,l   Linder, E ^e   Lungu, M ^a   Matsuda, F ^d   Matsumura, T ^k   Miller, N J ^d   Meng, X ^a   Morii, H ^k   Moyerman, S ^d   Myers, M J ^a   Nishino, H ^a   Paar, H ^d   Quealy, E ^a   Reichardt, C ^a   Richards, P L ^a   Ross, C ^g   Shimizu, A ^k   Shimmin, C ^a   Shimon, M ^d   Sholl, M ^l   Siritanasak, P ^d   Spieler, H ^l   Stebor, N ^d   Steinbach, B ^a   Stompor, R ^j   Suzuki, A ^a   Tomaru, T ^k   Tucker, C ^b   Zahn, O ^a,l   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ AUSTIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^k HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^l IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Antenna; Bolometer; CMB; CMB polarization; Millimeter wave

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA-COUPLED BOLOMETERS; ATACAMA DESERT; B-MODE POLARIZATION; CMB; CMB POLARIZATION; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; FOCAL PLANE; FOCAL PLANE DETECTOR ARRAY; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; NORTHERN CHILE; PLANAR ANTENNAS; POLARIZATION EXPERIMENTS;

ANTENNAS; ASTRONOMY; BOLOMETERS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FOCUSING; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84872079709     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.927057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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