Development of SIS mixers for 1 THz

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3357, Issue , 1998, Pages 53-62

  Zmuidzinas, Jonas ^a   Kooi, Jacob W ^a   Kawamura, Jonathan ^a   Chattopadhyay, Goutam ^a   Bumble, Bruce ^b   LeDuc, Henry G ^b   Stern, Jeffry A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterodyne receivers; SIS mixers; Submillimeter astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BOLOMETERS; ENERGY GAP; HETERODYNING; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NIOBIUM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO RECEIVERS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELESCOPES; TRANSITION METALS; TUNING; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

GAP FREQUENCY; HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; SIS JUNCTIONS; SIS MIXERS; SUBMILLIMETER ASTRONOMY;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0004866939     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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