High-Temperature Superconductive Photomixer Patch Antenna: Theory and Design

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E86-C, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1318-1327

  Saeedkia, Daryoosh ^a   Majedi, A Hamed ^a   Safavi Naeini, S ^a   Mansour, Raafat R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kinetic inductive photoresponse; Photomixers; Superconducting microwave photonics; Superconductive patch antenna; THz technology

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

PHOTOMIXERS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0141937762     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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