Terahertz superconducting hot electron bolometer heterodyne receivers

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 252-258

  Gao, J R ^a,b   Hajenius, M ^a,b   Yang, Z Q ^a   Baselmans, J J A ^a   Khosropanah, P ^a   Barends, R ^b   Klapwijk, T M ^b  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heterodyne receiver; Superconducting hot electron bolometer mixer; Terahertz; THz quantum cascade laser

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING; HOT ELECTRONS; MIXER CIRCUITS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

BROADBAND RADIATION; HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SUPERCONDUCTING HOT ELECTRON BOLOMETER MIXERS;

BOLOMETERS;

EID: 34547452805     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.898066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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