A 385-500 GHz low noise superconductor-insulator-superconductor mixer for ALMA band 8

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E89-C, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-176

  Shan, Wenlei ^a,b   Asayama, Shinichiro ^a   Kamikura, Mamoru ^a   Noguchi, Takashi ^a   Shi, Shengcai ^b   Sekimoto, Yutaro ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Advanced Technology Center

Author keywords

Atacama large millimeter submil imeter array; Noise temperature; Sideband separation; SIS mixer; Wideband performance

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER/SUBMIL/IMETER ARRAYS; NOISE TEMPERATURE; SIDEBAND SEPARATION; SIS MIXERS; WIDEBAND PERFORMANCE;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 33645788610     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.2.170     Document Type: Article

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