Four Photons Sensitivity Heterodyne Detection of Submillimeter Radiation With Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 3304-3307

  Karpov, A ^a   Blondel, J ^a   Voss, M ^a   Gundlach, K H ^a  

^a IRAM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING; MILLIMETER WAVES; NIOBIUM; PHOTONS; PHOTORESISTS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

DOUBLE SIDEBAND MIXER; PHOTONS SENSITIVITY HETERODYNE DETECTION; SUBMICRON NIOBIUM JUNCTIONS; SUBMILLIMETER RADIATION; SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNEL JUNCTION; SUPERCONDUCTOR INSULATOR SUPERCONDUCTOR RECEIVER; TELESCOPE SYSTEM NOISE TEMPERATURE;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0029327033     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: 15582515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.403298     Document Type: Article

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