High-Tc Josephson square-law detectors and Hubert spectroscopy for security applications

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 750-757

  Divin, Yury ^a,b,c   Poppe, Ulrich ^b   Gubankov, Vladimir N ^c   Urban, Knut ^b  

^a IEEE

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

High temperature superconductors; Hubert transforms; Josephson radiation detectors; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; NITRATION;

BROAD FREQUENCY RANGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION (EMR); EXPLOSIVE DETECTION; FALSE ALARMS (FA); RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS; TERAHERTZ (THZ);

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 44649170347     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.923185     Document Type: Article

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