Characterization of low-noise quasi-optical SIS mixers for the submillimeter band

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 7 PART 1, 1996, Pages 1130-1139

  Gaidis, Michael C ^b   Leduc, Henry G ^b   Bin, Mei ^c   Miller, David ^c   Stern, Jeffrey A ^b   Zmuidzinas, Jonas ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HETERODYNING; MILLIMETER WAVES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SLOT ANTENNAS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

ANTIREFLECTION COATING; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DOUBLE SIDEBAND RECEIVER NOISE TEMPERATURES; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETRY; LOW NOISE QUASI OPTICAL SIS MIXERS; NIOBIUM TRILAYER JUNCTIONS; SUBMILLIMETER BAND; TWO JUNCTION TUNING CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDE MIXERS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030193426     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.508648     Document Type: Article

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