Noise and conversion efficiency of aluminum superconducting hot-electron bolometer mixer

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 11, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 958-961

  Siddiqi, Irfan ^a   Verevkin, Aleksandr ^a   Prober, Daniel E ^a   Skalare, Anders ^b   Karasik, Boris S ^b   McGrath, William R ^b   Echternach, Pierre ^b   LeDuc, Henry G ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot electron bolometer; Mixer; Terahertz spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BOLOMETERS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ALUMINUM SUPERCONDUCTING HOT-ELECTRON BOLOMETER MIXER; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY BANDWIDTH; LOCAL OSCILLATOR; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0035268124     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.919507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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