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Antenna coupled niobium bolometers for 10 (mu)m radiation detection

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Author(s)

Robert Hadfield, Aaron J. Miller, Sae Woo Nam, Erich N. Grossman, Robert E. Schwall,

Abstract

We report on the fabrication and testing of antenna-coupled niobium bolometers for 10-micron wavelength radiation detection. We use 20 nm thick Nb films on oxidized Si substrates. The bolometer design consists of a 1 micron x 1 micron Nb microbridge embedded in either a dipole or a spiral Au antenna. We have performed dark dc tests on devices in both liquid He and vacuum at 4.2 K. Current biased dark measurements correspond well to established theory (Skocpol Beasley Tinkham)[1]. This allows us to extract a value for thermal conductance g -hence an indirect measure of the device bandwidth. Measurements under incident blackbody radiation perturb the return switching characteristics of the devices.
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pub Type
Journals

Citation

Hadfield, R. , Miller, A. , Nam, S. , Grossman, E. and Schwall, R. (2005), Antenna coupled niobium bolometers for 10 (mu)m radiation detection, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity (Accessed October 12, 2025)

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Created June 1, 2005, Updated February 17, 2017
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