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    A bolometer is a device for measuring radiant heat by means of a material having a temperature-dependent electrical resistance. It was invented in 1878...
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    American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor...
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    A microbolometer is a specific type of bolometer used as a detector in a thermal camera. Infrared radiation with wavelengths between 7.5–14 μm strikes...
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  • Type 14A (Hebmüller Cabriolet), an automobile Hot electron bolometer, a type of bolometer HEB – European type of I-beam Epistle to the Hebrews (Heb.)...
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    photoconductivity of selenium. 1878: Samuel Pierpont Langley invents the first bolometer, a device which is able to measure small temperature fluctuations, and...
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  • A scintillating bolometer (or luminescent bolometer) is a scientific instrument using particle physics in the search for events with low energy deposition...
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    tellurium dioxide (TeO2) crystals as both the source of the decay and as bolometers to detect the resulting electrons. CUORE searches for the characteristic...
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  • plane arrays, which are of three different types: multi-beam feed arrays, bolometer arrays, and the experimental phased-array feeds. Multi-beam feed arrays...
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  • Two instruments known as the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, or SCUBA, have been used for detecting submillimetre radiation on the James Clerk...
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  • an in-memory database developed by Facebook Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, either of two instruments used on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope...
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  • Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver Location(s) Antarctic Treaty area Coordinates 89°59′30″S 44°30′00″W / 89.9917°S 44.5°W / -89.9917; -44...
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    older continuum single pixel UKT14 bolometer receiver was replaced around 1995 by the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA). This instrument operated...
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  • celestial objectsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Bolometer – Device for measuring incident electromagnetic radiation Canterbury Astrolabe...
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    observe temperature anisotropies in the CMB. Was refitted with the ACBAR bolometer (2000-2008). DASI (1999–2000), used to measure the temperature and power...
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    shut down in October 2013. Planck employed both HEMT radiometers and bolometer technology and measured the CMB at a smaller scale than WMAP. Its detectors...
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    export-restricted due to the military uses for this technology. Older bolometers or more sensitive models such as InSb require cryogenic cooling, usually...
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    Extragalactic Sub-mm Telescope) was the original name attributed to the bolometer detector instrument, while DASI is a famous CMB interferometry experiment...
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    background applications. Some technologies used are HEMT, MMIC, SIS and bolometers. Experiments generally use elaborate cryogenic systems to keep the amplifiers...
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    crystals are opaque in this region. More sensitive detectors than the bolometer were required because of the low energy of the radiation. One such was...
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    either in the SI units, watts, or in terms of solar luminosities (L☉). A bolometer is the instrument used to measure radiant energy over a wide band by absorption...
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    An infrared thermometer is a kind of pyrometer (bolometer)....
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    Vieider, C., & Jakobsen, H. (2007, November). MEMS-based uncooled infrared bolometer arrays: a review. proceedings of SPIE - The International Society For...
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    micro-calorimeter photon detectors. The same effect is used in ultrasensitive bolometers made from superconducting materials. Superconducting nanowire single-photon...
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    other instruments, including other CMB experiments (Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR), Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) and BOOMERANG)...
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  • Machine MEMS Sensors (Inertial, Pressure, Ultrasound, Piezoelectric, LiDar, Bolometer ) IoT Motion Sensors CanSemi Phase I China, Guangzhou 4 2019 300 180–90...
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  • detectors, including the transition edge sensor, the superconducting bolometer, the superconducting tunnel junction detector, the kinetic inductance...
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    radiation can be followed through many temperature dependent phenomena. Bolometers and microbolometers are based on changes in resistance. Thermocouples...
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    principle of operation of a thermopile sensor is distinct from that of a bolometer, as the latter relies on a change in resistance. Thermocouples can generally...
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    possibility of its fine-tuning through the nanotube structure. In addition, bolometer and optoelectronic memory devices have been realised on ensembles of single-walled...
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    anisotropy from the Earth's motion relative to this blackbody radiation field. Bolometer Color temperature Draper point Infrared thermometer Photon polarization...
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