Recent Achievements on the development of the Herschel/PACS Bolometer   arrays
  A new type of bolometer arrays sensitive in the Far Infrared and Submillimeter range has been developped and manufactured by CEA/LETI/SLIR and will be integrated in the PACS instrument onboard the Herschel Space Observatory (launch date 2008). The main innovations are their collective manufacturing technique (production of 3-side buttable 16x16 arrays) and their high mapping efficiency (large format detector and instantaneous Nyquist sampling). Their measured NEP is 2x10^-16 W/Hz^-0.5 and their thermometric passband about 4-5 Hz. In this paper we describe CEA bolometers and present the results obtained during the last test campaign. 
N. Billot, P. Agnese, O. Boulade, C. Cigna, E. Doumeyrou, B. Horeau,   J. Lepennec, J. Martignac, J.-L. Pornin, V. Reveret, ...