Superconducting detector assembly and apparatus utilizing same
USRE35872E · kind E · reissue
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| Filing date | Apr 17, 1996 |
| Grant date | Aug 18, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 17, 2016 |
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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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