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Definition of Bolometer

Bolometer
Bolometer Bo*lom"e*ter, n. [Gr. ? a stroke, ray + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. --S. P. Langley.

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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...
- American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor...
- 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...
- A scintillating bolometer (or luminescent bolometer) is a scientific instrument using particle physics in the search for events with low energy deposition...
- photoconductivity of selenium. 1878: Samuel Pierpont Langley invents the first bolometer, a device which is able to measure small temperature fluctuations, and...
- an in-memory database developed by Facebook Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, either of two instruments used on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope...
- Type 14A (Hebmüller Cabriolet), an automobile Hot electron bolometer, a type of bolometer HEB – European type of I-beam Epistle to the Hebrews (Heb.)...
- older continuum single pixel UKT14 bolometer receiver was replaced around 1995 by the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA). This instrument operated...
- 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...
- plane arrays, which are of three different types: multi-beam feed arrays, bolometer arrays, and the experimental phased-array feeds. Multi-beam feed arrays...