High temperature superconductive wideband compressive receivers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 7 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1258-1278

  Gregory Lyons, W ^a   Arsenault, Duane R ^a   Anderson, Alfredo C ^a   Gerhard Sollner, T C L ^a   Murphy, Peter G ^a   Seaver, Mark M ^a   Boisvert, Rene R ^a   Slattery, Richard L ^a   Ralston, Richard W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MICROWAVE FILTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHIRP TRANSFORM ALGORITHM; CRYORECEIVER; DISPERSIVE DELAYS; WIDEBAND COMPRESSIVE RECEIVER;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 0030190753     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.508231     Document Type: Article

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