New type of bolometer detector for far-infrared telescopes

To study how stars and planets are born we have to look at star cradles hidden in cool clouds of dust. Far-infrared telescopes are able to pierce through those clouds. Conventionally, niobium nitride bolometers are used as the detectors, despite their low operating temperature of 4 Kelvin (-269° Celsius).

Total number of detector samples per pixels with the 6 bolometers

Far-Infrared Bolometers: Technical Lineages

FISICA-FP7

New bolometer is faster, simpler, and covers more wavelengths

Photon-noise-limited cold-electron bolometer based on strong

Next decade in infrared detectors

PDF] Optical performance of an ultra-sensitive horn-coupled

First Light for World's Largest 'Thermometer Camera

HFI detection chain - Planck PLA Wiki

Observing in the far-infrared