Design and characterization of a 250-350-GHz fixed-tuned superconductor-insulator-superconductor receiver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1548-1556

  Tong, Cheuk Edward ^a   Blundell, Raymond ^b   Paine, Scott ^a   Cosmo Papa, D ^a   Kawamura, Jonathan ^b   Zhang, Xiaolei ^b   Stern, Jeffrey A ^b   Leduc, Henry G ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATING MATERIALS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TUNING; WAVEGUIDES;

FREQUENCY BAND; INPUT NOISE; SIDE BAND RATIO; SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTOR INSULATOR SUPERCONDUCTOR;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 0030247575     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.536603     Document Type: Article

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