A submillimetre-wave SIS mixer using NbN/MgO/NbN trilayers grown epitaxially on an MgO substrate

Superconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1760-1765

  Uzawa, Y ^a   Kawakami, A ^a   Saito, A ^a   Takeda, M ^a   Wang, Z ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THIN FILMS;

ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETRE ARRAYS (ALMA);

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0036918857     PISSN: 09532048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/15/12/328     Document Type: Article

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