Published Papers by Robert Bass:

J. C. Schultz, et al., "Application of Ultra-Thin Silicon Technology to Submillimeter Detection and Mixing " WMSCI Conference Orlando, FL, July, 2005

R.B. Bass, E. Bryerton, A.W. Lichtenberger, Latest Noise Temperature Measurements of a Phonon-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometer Heterodyne Mixer between 620GHz and 720GHz, A Hand-out presented at the Applied Superconductiviy Conference, Jacksonville, FL, October 2004

Handout from ASC 2004

R.B. Bass “Hot-Electron Bolometers on Ultra-thin Silicon Chips for a 585GHz Receiver,” Presented to the Faculty of the University of Virginia as a PhD Dissertation, May 2004

R.B. Bass, A.W. Lichtenberger, R.M. Weikle, S.-K. Pan, E. Bryerton, C.K. Walker, “Ultra-Thin Silicon Chips for Submillimeter-Wave Applications,” Fifteenth International Symposium on Space THz Technology, Northampton, MA, April 2004

R.B. Bass, A.W. Lichtenberger, “Microcontact Printing with Octadecanethiol,” Applied Surface Science, 226 (4), pp. 335-340, April 2004

R.B. Bass, A.W. Lichtenberger, R. Weikle, J.W. Kooi, C.K. Walker, S.-K. Pan, “Ultra-Thin SOI Beam Lead Chips for Superconducting Terahertz Circuits,” Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, Sorento, Italy, September 14, 2003

R.B. Bass, A.W. Lichtenberger, G. Narayanan, “Fabrication of Diffusion-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometers using Electron Beam Lithography,” Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, Sorento, Italy, September 14, 2003

R.B. Bass, J.C. Schultz, A.W. Lichtenberger, “Microfabrication of Suspended Membranes by Vacuum Planarization,” submitted: Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems July 2003

R.B. Bass, L.T. Lichtenberger, A.W. Lichtenberger, “Effects of Substrate Preparation on the Stress of Nb Thin Films”, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 13 (2), pp. 3928-3300, 2003

R.B. Bass, J.C. Schultz, A.W. Lichtenberger, C. Walker, J. Kooi, “Beam Lead Fabrication Using Vacuum Planarization,” Fourteenth International Symposium on Space THz Technology, Tucson, AZ, April 2003

J.W. Kooi , C.D. d'Aubigny , R.B. Bass, C. Walker, A.W. Lichtenberger, “Large RF Bandwidth Waveguide to Thin Film Microstrip Transitions on Suspended Membrane for use in Silicon Micromachined Mixer blocks at THz Frequencies,” Fourteenth International Symposium on Space THz Technology, Tucson, AZ, April 2003

R.B. Bass, "Diffusion-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometers on Beam Lead Chips for a 585GHz Receiver," Presented to the Faculty of the University of Virginia as a PhD Research Proposal , March 2003

R.B. Bass, "Hot-Electron Bolometer Fabrication," Presented to the Faculty of the University of Virginia for a PhD Qualifying Exam , February 2003

R.B. Bass, J.Z. Zhang, W.L.. Bishop, A.W. Lichtenberger, S.-K. Pan, "Beam Lead Quartz Chips for Superconducting Millimeter-Wave Circuits," Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2002: Topics in Astronomy: Information Technologies, MMW and Sub-MMW Detectors, Solar Astrophysics, Non-EM Astronomy, Exo-Planet Detection, and Astrobiology , Waikoloa Village, HI, August 2002

R.B. Bass, W.W. Clark, J.Z. Zhang, A.W. Lichtenberger, "Use of a Focused Ion Beam for Characterization of SIS Circuits," IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 11, no. 1, March 2001

R.B. Bass, C.R. Ellis, A.W. Lichtenberger, "Anisotropic Etching of Thick Gold Films for Superconducting Circuits," Unpublished , 2000

R.B. Bass, J.Z. Zhang, A.W. Lichtenberger, "Machine-Aligned Fabrication of Submicron SIS Tunnel Junctions Using a Focused Ion Beam," IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, pp 3240-3243, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1999

R.B. Bass, A.W. Lichtenberger, "Techniques for Submicron SIS Tunnel Junction Fabrication," Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Research Symposium, Charlottesville, VA, December 1999

R.B. Bass, J.Z. Zhang, A.W. Lichtenberger, "Fabrication of Submicron Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb Junctions Using a Focused Ion Beam," SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, San Diego, CA, July 1998

R.B. Bass, A.W. Lichtenberger, "Machine Aligned Fabrication of Submicron Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb Junctions Using a Focused Ion Beam," Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium , Charlottesville, VA, December 1997

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