Noise temperature measurement of YBCO josephson mixers in millimeter and submillimeter waves

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 7, Issue 2 PART 3, 1997, Pages 2595-2598

  Shimakage, H ^a   Uzawa, Y ^a   Tonouchi, M ^a   Wang, Z ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL NOISE; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

BLACKBODY IRRADIATION; STEP EDGE JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; THIN FILM LOG PERIODIC ANTENNAS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031168719     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.621770     Document Type: Article

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