An All Solid-State Superconducting Heterodyne Receiver at Terahertz Frequencies

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 366-368

  Tong, C Edward ^a   Blundell, Raymond ^a   Papa, D Cosmo ^a   Smith, Michael ^a   Kawamura, Jonathan ^b   Gol'tsman, Gregory ^c   Gershenzon, Eugene ^c   Voronov, Boris ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Solid state terahertz LO; submillimeter wave receivers; superconducting mixers

Indexed keywords

GUNN OSCILLATORS; HETERODYNING; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; VARACTORS;

SUPERCONDUCTING HOT-ELECTRON BOLOMETER MIXER RECEIVERS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033337015     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.790476     Document Type: Article

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