Hot-electron bolometer terahertz mixers for the Herschel Space Observatory

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Cherednichenko, Sergey ^a   Drakinskiy, Vladimir ^a   Berg, Therese ^a,b   Khosropanah, Pourya ^a,c   Kollberg, Erik ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Sensys Traffic AB   (Sweden)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; HETERODYNING; HOT ELECTRONS; SPECTROMETERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; HETERODYNE SPECTROMETERS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 41549132148     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2890099     Document Type: Article

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