Dr Tom Brien

2023

• Cuenca, J. A. et al. 2023. Superconducting boron doped nanocrystalline diamond microwave coplanar resonator. Carbon 201, pp. 251-259. (10.1016/j.carbon.2022.08.084)

2022

• Gascard, T. et al. 2022. Pixel design for FIR/mm/submm astronomy constituted of a set of antenna-coupled superconducting detectors feeding a metamaterial-based lenslet. Presented at: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, Montreal, Canada, 17-23 July 2022Proceedings Volume 12190 Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, Vol. 12190. SPIE, (10.1117/12.2627848)

2021

• Brien, T. L. R. et al. 2021. Performance and deployment status of MUSCAT: a 1500-pixel LEKID-based mm-wave camera for the large millimeter telescope. Presented at: 45th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Buffalo, USA, 8-13 Nov 202045th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz). , (10.1109/IRMMW-THz46771.2020.9370760)

2020

• Brien, T. et al. 2020. Pre-deployment verification and predicted mapping speed of MUSCAT. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, Virtual, 14-18 December 2020Proceedings Volume 11453, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X, Vol. 11453. SPIE pp. 1145303., (10.1117/12.2561305)
• Tapia, M. et al. 2020. MUSCAT focal plane verification. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, Virtual, 14-18 December 2020Proceedings Volume 11453, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X;, Vol. 11453. SPIE pp. 1145309., (10.1117/12.2576219)
• Gómez-Rivera, V. et al. 2020. Design and characterization of the MUSCAT detectors. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, Virtual, 14-18 December 2020Proceedings Volume 11453, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X, Vol. 11453. SPIE pp. 114531Q., (10.1117/12.2576334)

2019

• Chase, S. T., Brien, T. L. R., Doyle, S. M. and Kenny, L. C. 2019. Pre-cooling a 3He/4He dilutor module with a sealed closed-cycle continuous cooler. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 502, article number: 12134. (10.1088/1757-899X/502/1/012134)

2018

• Brien, T. L. R., Castillo-Dominguez, E., Chase, S. and Doyle, S. M. 2018. A continuous 100-mK helium-light cooling system for MUSCAT on the LMT. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 193(5-6), pp. 805-812. (10.1007/s10909-018-2024-y)
• Castillo, E. et al. 2018. Mexico-UK sub-millimeter camera for astronomy. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 193(5-6), pp. 1010-1015. (10.1007/s10909-018-2018-9)
• Morozov, D. et al. 2018. Design and characterisation of titanium nitride subarrays of kinetic inductance detectors for passive terahertz imaging. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 193(3-4), pp. 196-202. (10.1007/s10909-018-2023-z)
• Brien, T. et al. 2018. MUSCAT: The Mexico-UK Sub-Millimetre Camera for AsTronomy. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, TX, USA, 10-15 June 2018 Presented at Zmuidzinas, J. and Gao, J. eds.Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, Vol. 10708. SPIE, (10.1117/12.2313697)

2016

• Brien, T. L. et al. 2016. A cryogenic testbed for the characterisation of large detector arrays for astronomical and Earth-observing applications in the near to very-long-wavelength infrared. Presented at: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Edinburgh, 26 June - 1 July 2016Proc. SPIE 9904, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Vol. 99045H. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), (10.1117/12.2234403)
• Brien, T. et al. 2016. Optical response of strained- and unstrained-silicon cold-electron bolometers. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 184, pp. 231-237. (10.1007/s10909-016-1569-x)
• Rowe, S. et al. 2016. A passive terahertz video camera based on lumped element kinetic inductance detectors. Review of Scientific Instruments 87(3), article number: 33105. (10.1063/1.4941661)

2015

• Brien, T. 2015. The silicon cold-electron bolometer. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University and Warwick University.
• Brien, T. et al. 2015. Optical characterisation of a strained-silicon cold-electron bolometer at 160 GHz. Presented at: 2015 8th UK, Europe, China Millimeter Waves and THz Technology Workshop (UCMMT), Cardiff, UK, 14-15 Sept. 2015http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7455173. pp. 1-4., (10.1109/UCMMT.2015.7460630)

2014

• Brien, T. L. et al. 2014. A strained silicon cold electron bolometer using Schottky contacts. Applied Physics Letters 105, article number: 43509. (10.1063/1.4892069)

2013

• Whall, T. E. et al. 2013. Cooltronics: a new low-temperature tunneling technology based on silicon. Presented at: 4th International Conference on Ultimate Integration on Silicon, Coventry, UK, 19-21 March 2013ULIS, 2013: 14th International Conference on Ultimate Integration on Silicon, University of Warwick, 19th-21st March, 2013. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 1-4., (10.1109/ULIS.2013.6523477)