Quasi-Optical Slot Antenna SIS Mixers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1992, Pages 1797-1804

  Zmuidzinas, Jonas ^a   LeDuc, H G ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; FABRICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ANTENNA IMPEDANCE CHARACTERISTICS; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; MOMENT-MATCHED CALIBRATION; NOISE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; QUASI-OPTICAL SLOT ANTENNA SIS MIXERS; SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNEL JUNCTION MIXERS (SIS MIXERS); TAPERED SUPERCONDUCTING MICROSTRIP TRANSMISSION LINES; TWIN-SLOT ANTENNA;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0026923852     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.156607     Document Type: Article

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