The direct detection effect in the hot-electron bolometer mixer sensitivity calibration

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 504-509

  Cherednichenko, Sergey ^b   Drakinskiy, Vladimir ^b   Berg, Therese ^b,c   Kollberg, Erik L ^a,b   Angelov, Iltcho ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Sensys Traffic AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hot electron bolometer (HEB); IF matching; Mixer; Noise temperature; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

HOT-ELECTRON BOLOMETER (HEB); IF MATCHING; MIXER; NOISE TEMPERATURE; TERAHERTZ;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BIAS CURRENTS; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HETERODYNING; MIXER CIRCUITS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 33847771573     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.891470     Document Type: Article

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