Fabrication of terahertz frequency phonon cooled HEB mixers

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART I, 2005, Pages 499-502

  Stern, Jeffrey A ^a   Bumble, Bruce ^a   Kawamura, Jonathan ^a   Skalare, Anders ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam lead devices; Submillimeter wave mixers; Superconducting hot electron bolometer

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BEAM LEAD DEVICES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LITHOGRAPHY; MANUFACTURE; PHONONS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

HERSCHEL TELESCOPE; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI); SUPERCONDUCTING HOT-ELECTRON BOLOMETER; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 22044436116     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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