A Technique for Noise Measurements of SIS Receivers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 752-755

  Ke, Qing ^a   Feldman, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK COMPONENTS; SHOT NOISE; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

QUASIPARTICLE RECEIVERS; SUPERCONDUCTOR INSULATOR SUPERCONDUCTOR (SIS) RECEIVERS;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 0028413183     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.285091     Document Type: Article

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