Design and development of SIS mixers for ALMA band 10

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 363-366

  Shan, Wenlei ^a,b   Shi, Shengcai ^a,b   Matsunaga, Teruhiko ^f   Takizawa, Manabu ^c   Endo, Akira ^d,e   Noguchi, Takashi ^e   Uzawa, Yoshinori ^e  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Atacama large millimeter array; SIS junction; Submillimeter wave mixer; Superconducting microstrip line

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER ARRAY; FOR ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER ARRAY (ALMA); SIS JUNCTION; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE MIXER; SUPERCONDUCTING MICROSTRIP LINE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; MICROSTRIP LINES; MIXER CIRCUITS; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WAVEGUIDES;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 34547482523     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.898594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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