Development of a waveguide NbN-based SIS mixer in the 900-GHz band

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 692-695

  Takeda, Masanori ^a   Uzawa, Yoshinori ^a   Wang, Zhen ^a   Saito, Atsushi ^a   Kawakami, Akira ^a  

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

Author keywords

Distributed junction; NbN AlN NbN; SIS mixer; Terahertz range; Waveguide probe

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); ELECTRIC INSULATORS; FREQUENCIES; MAGNESIA; MIXER CIRCUITS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUBSTRATES; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

TUNING CIRCUITS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0041439765     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.814003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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