Heterodyne measurements of a NbN superconducting hot electron mixer at terahertz frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 3, 1999, Pages 3757-3760

  Yagoubov, P ^a   Kroug, M ^a   Merkel, H ^a   Kollberg, E ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BOLOMETERS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FABRICATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SILICON WAFERS;

LOCAL OSCILLATOR; SUPERCONDUCTING HOT ELECTRON MIXER; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0032660522     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.783845     Document Type: Article

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