Low-Noise Slot Antenna SIS Mixers

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 3053-3056

  Zmuidzinas, J ^a   Ugras, N G ^a   Miller, D ^a   Gaidis, M ^a   Stern, J A ^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

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; LENSES; LITHOGRAPHY; NIOBIUM; OPTICS; OXIDES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SLOT ANTENNAS;

OPTICAL LITHOGRAPHY; SILICON HYPER HEMISPHERICAL LENS; SUBMILLIMETER BAND; TUNING CIRCUITS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0029326593     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: 15582515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.403236     Document Type: Article

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