Development of THz Nb diffusion-cooled hot electron bolometer mixers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4855, Issue , 2002, Pages 371-382

  Gao, J R ^a,b   Yagoubov, P ^a   Klapwijk, T M ^b   De Korte, P A J ^a   Ganzevles, W F M ^b   Wilms Floet, D ^b  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heterodyne receiver; Hot spot; Mixer; Niobium; Quasi optical; Radioastronomy; Superconductor normal metal structure; Terahertz; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRONS; MIXER CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NIOBIUM; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE;

HETERODYNE RECEIVER; NIOBIUM DIFFUSION-COOLED HOT ELECTRON BOLOMETER MIXERS; QUASI-OPTICAL; SUPERCONDUCTOR-NORMAL METAL STRUCTURE;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0037731334     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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