Feasibility of the high T c superconducting bolometer
- 16 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 54 (3), 283-285
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.101447
Abstract
A design analysis is given for a bolometric infrared detector that uses the resistive transition of a high‐temperature superconductor as the temperature sensing element, and liquid nitrogen (LN) as the coolant. It is shown that for highly oriented c‐axis films, the measured low‐frequency noise causes little or no degradation of the performance. With the incoming radiation chopped at 10 Hz, noise equivalent powers (NEP) in the range (1–20)×10−12 W Hz−1/2 should be achievable. These values compare favorably with the NEP of other detectors operating at or above LN temperatures for wavelengths greater than 20 μm.Keywords
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