Monolayer graphene bolometer as a sensitive far-IR detector

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9153, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Karasik, Boris S ^a   McKitterick, Christopher B ^b   Prober, Daniel E ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

far infrared astrophysics; Graphene; hot electron bolometer; noise thermometry

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GRAPHENE; HOT ELECTRONS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MONOLAYERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHONONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL NOISE; THERMOMETERS;

ELECTRON PHONON COUPLINGS; FAR INFRARED; HOT ELECTRON BOLOMETER; JOHNSON NOISE THERMOMETRY; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; NOISE THERMOMETRY; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTING CONTACTS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 84921359661     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2055317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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