Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
Apr 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990amsa.nasa...29b&link_type=abstract
In its AMSAHTS 1990: Advances in Materials Science and Applications of High Temperature Superconductors p 29-30 (SEE N90-27792 2
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Bolometers, Cassini Mission, European Space Agency, High Temperature Superconductors, Radiant Cooling, Refrigerating Machinery, Space Missions, Cryogenic Fluids, Diamond Films, Far Infrared Radiation, Fourier Transformation, Galileo Spacecraft, Infrared Detectors, Mariner Mark 2 Spacecraft, Mercury Cadmium Tellurides, Spectrometers, Thermopiles, Titan Launch Vehicles
Scientific paper
Planetary missions to Mars and beyond can last 11 years and longer, making impractical the use of stored cryogens. Passive radiative coolers and single-stage mechanical coolers remain possibilities. CRAF and CASSINI, both using the newly developed Mariner Mark 2 spacecraft, will be the next outer planet missions after Galileo; they are intended to provide information on the origin and evolution of the solar system. CRAF is a cometary rendezvous mission slated for a 1994 launch. CASSINI has been chosen by ESA and will be launched by a Titan 4/Centaur in 1996. It will fly by Jupiter in 2000, inject an ESA-supplied probe into Titan in 2002, and take data in Saturn orbit from 2002 to 2006. NASA/Goddard is currently developing a prototype Fourier transform spectrometer (CIRS) that will be proposed for the CASSINI mission. The baseline infrared detectors for CIRS are HgCdTe to 16 microns and Schwarz-type thermopiles from 16 to 1000 microns. The far infrared focal plane could be switched from thermopiles to high temperature superconductor (HTS) bolometers between now and 1996. An HTS bolometer could be built using the kinetic inductance effect, or the sharp resistance change at the transition. The transition-edge bolometer is more straightforward to implement and initial efforts at NASA/Goddard are directed to that device. A working device was made and tested in early 1989. It also has somewhat elevated noise levels below 100 Hz. Upcoming efforts will center on reducing the time constant of the HTS bolometer by attempting to deposit an HTS film on a diamond substrate, and by thinning SrTiO3 substrates. Attempts will be made to improve the film quality to reduce th 1/f noise level, and to improve the thermal isolation to increase the bolometer sensitivity. An attempt is being made to deposit good-quality HTS films on diamond films using an MOCVD technique.
Brasunas J.
Kunde Virgil
Lakew Brook
Moseley Harvey
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