Quasi-optical submillimeter-wave mixers with NbN/AIN/NbN tunnel junctions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2435-2437

  Uzawa, Yoshinori ^a   Wang, Zhen ^a   Kawakami, Akira ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; HETERODYNING; MAGNESIA; MILLIMETER WAVES; NITRIDES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; HETERODYNE MIXING; NIOBIUM NITRIDE; RECEIVER NOISE TEMPERATURE; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE MIXERS; TUNING CIRCUITS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030263571     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.117662     Document Type: Article

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