High current density nbn/aln/nbn tunnel junctions for submillimeter wave sis mixers

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 7, Issue 2 PART 3, 1997, Pages 2797-2800

  Wang, Z ^a   Uzawa, Y ^a   Kawakami, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HETERODYNING; MIXER CIRCUITS; OPTICAL TESTING; SQUIDS; THIN FILMS; TUNING; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

PHOTON ASSISTED TUNNELING; SUPERCONDUCTING MIXERS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0031168060     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.621818     Document Type: Article

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