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arXiv:1803.06413 · Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Ground-Based Millimeter-Wave Cosmology

B. Steinbach, Jamie J. Bock, H. T. Nguyen, Roger C. O'Brient, Anthony Turner

Published Jul 2, 2018• 14 citations
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10.1007/s10909-018-2016-y

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