Conversion gain and fluctuation noise of phonon-cooled hot-electron bolometers in hot-spot regime

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue , 2000, Pages 690-699

  Merkel, Harald F ^a   Khosropanah, Pourya ^a   Floet, Danny Wilms ^b   Yagoubov, Pavel A ^a   Kollberg, Erik L ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bolometers; Millimeter wave detectors; Millimeter wave mixers; Mixer noise; Submillimeter wave mixers; Superconducting device noise

Indexed keywords

BIAS HEATING POWER; HEAT BALANCE MODEL; HOT ELECTRON BOLOMETERS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE MIXERS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHONONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TEMPERATURE;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0034172333     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.841961     Document Type: Article

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