Published October 2004
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Superconducting detectors and mixers for millimeter and submillimeter astrophysics
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Zmuidzinas, Jonas
- Richards, Paul L.
Abstract
Superconducting detectors will play an increasingly significant role in astrophysics, especially at millimeter through far-IR wavelengths, where the scientific opportunities include key problems in astronomy and cosmology. Superconducting detectors offer many benefits: outstanding sensitivity, lithographic fabrication, and large array sizes, especially through the recent development of multiplexing techniques. This paper describes the scientific opportunities, the basic physics of these devices, the techniques for radiation coupling, and reviews the recent progress in direct detectors, such as transition-edge bolometers, and the work on tunnel junction (superconductor-insulator-superconductor) and hot-electron mixers.
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© Copyright 2004 IEEE. Reprinted with permission. Manuscript received December 12, 2003; revised April 19, 2004. This work was supported in part by A. Lidow, a California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, Trustee; in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), through Aerospace Technology and Space Science Enterprises; and in part by the National Science Foundation, and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program, administered by the Universities Space Research Organization (USRA) for NASA.Files
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