Distributed quasiparticle mixing in a non-linear transmission line at sub-millimeter wavelengths

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 7, Issue 2 PART 3, 1997, Pages 3597-3600

  Tong, Cheuk Yu Edward ^a   Blundell, Raymond ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; TUNING;

NOISE TEMPERATURE; QUASIPARTICLE MIXING;

SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 0031163408     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.622181     Document Type: Article

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