Superconducting detector assembly and apparatus utilizing same
US5354989A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 28, 1992 |
| Grant date | Oct 11, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 28, 2012 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01J3/2803
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An array of superconducting bolometers, assembled with a superposed interference layer of graduated thickness, provides a microelectronic detector assembly that discriminates radiation impinging thereon, as a function of wavelength, and that can be used for transform spectroscopy, color-imaging, and the like. The interference coating will preferably be of step-like form, with each plateau of the structure being of the same spatial extent as the bolometer with which it is associated.
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