Wide-Bandwidth Electron Bolometric Mixers: A 2DEG Prototype and Potential for Low-Noise THz Receivers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 581-589

  Yang, Jian Xun ^a   Agahi, Farid ^a   Dai, Dong ^a   Musante, Charles F ^a   Grammer, Wes ^a   Lau, Kei May ^a   Yngvesson, K Sigfrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; GASES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MIXER CIRCUITS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

2DEG; BOLOMETRIC MIXERS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LOW-NOISE RECEIVERS; THZ RECEIVERS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0027575038     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.231649     Document Type: Article

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