A 275-370 GHz SIS mixer for the APEX telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 140-148

  Risacher, Christophe ^a   Belitsky, Victor ^a   Vassilev, Vessen ^a   Pavolotsky, Alexey ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bias T; Josephson effect; Superconductor insulator superconductor (SIS); Waveguide to microstrip transition

Indexed keywords

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; PERMANENT MAGNETS; TELESCOPES; THIN FILM DEVICES; TUNING;

ATACAMA PATHFINDER EXPERIMENT (APEX); BIAS-T; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; WAVEGUIDE-TO-MICROSTRIP TRANSITION;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 12744278447     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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