A Broad-Band Low-Noise SIS Receiver for Submillimeter Astronomy

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1988, Pages 1720-1726

  Büttgenbach, Thomas H ^a   Miller, Ronald E ^b   Wengler, Michael J ^a   Watson, Dan M ^a   Phillips, T G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS, BROADBAND; ANTENNAS--MICROWAVE; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; SUBMILLIMETER ASTRONOMY;

RADIO RECEIVERS;

EID: 0024174181     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.17405     Document Type: Article

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