Superconducting hot-electron bolometer mixer for terahertz heterodyne receivers

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 168-171

  Semenov, Alexei D ^a   Hübers, Heinz Wilhelm ^a   Richter, Heiko ^a   Birk, Manfred ^a   Krocka, Michael ^a   Mair, Ulrich ^a   Vachtomin, Yuriy B ^b   Finkel, Matvey L ^b   Antipov, Sergey V ^b   Voronov, Boris M ^b   Smirnov, Konstantin V ^b   Kaurova, Natalia S ^b   Drakinski, Vladimir N ^b   Gol'tsman, Gregory N ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gain bandwidth; Hot electron bolometer mixer; Terahertz heterodyne receiver

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BANDWIDTH; HETERODYNING; MAGNESIA; MIXER CIRCUITS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

HOT-ELECTRON BOLOMETER (HEB) MIXERS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 0042943291     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.813672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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