Superconductive hot-electron-bolometer mixer receiver for 800-GHz operation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue , 2000, Pages 683-689

  Kawamura, Jonathan ^a   Blundell, Raymond ^b   Tong, C Y Edward ^b   Papa, D Cosmo ^b   Hunter, Todd R ^b   Paine, Scott N ^b   Patt, Ferdinand ^c   Gol’tsman, Gregory ^d   Cherednichenko, Sergei ^d   Voronov, Boris ^d   Gershenzon, Eugene ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c Sub Millimeter telescope observatory   (United States)

^d MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Submillimeter wave mixers; Superconducting devices

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE SIDEBAND RECEIVER; ELECTRON PHONON INTERACTION; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE MIXERS; SUPERCONDUCTIVE HOT ELECTRON BOLOMETER;

BOLOMETERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

SINGLE SIDEBAND RECEIVERS;

EID: 0034172456     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.841960     Document Type: Article

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