Performance of terahertz waveguide sis mixers employing epitaxial nbn films and nb junctions

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 405-408

  Kojima, Takafumi ^a   Kroug, Matthias ^b   Takeda, Masanori ^c   Shan, Wenlei ^d   Fujii, Yasunori ^b   Uzawa, Yoshinori ^b   Wang, Zhen ^c   Shi, Shengcai ^d  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atacama large millimeter array; Niobium nitride; SIS mixers; Submillimeter wave

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER ARRAY; BEAM SPLITTERS; BOW TIE; FEED POINT; GROUND PLANES; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMERS; IV CHARACTERISTICS; MGO SUBSTRATE; MICROSTRIPES; NB JUNCTIONS; NIOBIUM NITRIDE; NORMAL-STATE RESISTANCE; RECEIVER NOISE TEMPERATURES; SINGLE-CRYSTAL; SIS MIXERS; SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR MIXERS; TERAHERTZ BAND; TERAHERTZ WAVEGUIDES; TRANSITION STRUCTURES; TUNING CIRCUITS; VACUUM WINDOWS; WAVEGUIDE MIXERS; WAVEGUIDE PROBE;

EPITAXIAL FILMS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MIXER CIRCUITS; NIOBIUM; NITRIDES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES; WINDOWS;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 68649086121     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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