Waveguide-type SIS receiver using all-NbN technique

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E89-C, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-168

  Takeda, Masanori ^a,b   Uzawa, Yoshinori ^a,b   Kawakami, Akira ^a,b,c   Wang, Zhen ^a,b  

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

^b JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^c Superconductive Electronics Group ^*

Author keywords

NbN; Noise temperature; SIS mixer; Submitlimeter wave; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; MAGNESIA; MIXER CIRCUITS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

NBN; NOISE TEMPERATURES; SIS MIXERS; SUBMITLIMETER-WAVES;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 33645780678     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.2.163     Document Type: Article

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