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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Broadband Cryogenic milli-Kelvin Attenuators: Cooling Power Improvements

Jen-Hao Yeh, Rui Zhang, Shavindra Premaratne, Jay C. LeFebvre, F. C. Wellstood, Benjamin A. Palmer

Published Mar 9, 2018• 0 citations
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