An 85–116 GHz SIS Receiver Using Inductively Shunted Edge Junctions

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 580-592

  Kleinsasser, Alan W ^c   Stasiak, James W ^c   Sandstrom, Robert L ^c   Gallagher, William J ^c  

^a National Radio Astronomy Observatory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, MIXER--MICROWAVES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS--NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL;

BROADBAND INTEGRATED TUNING STRUCTURE; SATURATION MEASUREMENTS; SIS MIXER; SIS RECEIVER; SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR (SIS);

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0024626999     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.21631     Document Type: Article

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