A sensitive ALMA Band 10 SIS receiver engineering model

Superconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Uzawa, Y ^a   Kroug, M ^a   Kojima, T ^a,b   Takeda, M ^a   Candotti, M ^a   Fujii, Y ^a   Kaneko, K ^a   Shan, W ^c   Noguchi, T ^a   Wang, Z ^d  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER/SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY; CENTER FREQUENCY; DOUBLE-SIDEBAND; ELLIPSOIDAL MIRRORS; ENGINEERING MODELS; FEED HORNS; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; LOCAL OSCILLATOR FREQUENCIES; MICROSTRIP TUNING CIRCUITS; NB JUNCTIONS; NOISE TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL TEMPERATURE; QUARTZ SUBSTRATE; RECEIVER NOISE TEMPERATURES; SINGLE POLARIZATION; SIS MIXERS; SIS RECEIVERS; SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR MIXERS; WAVEGUIDE MIXERS;

MIXER CIRCUITS; NIOBIUM; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 71049139879     PISSN: 09532048     EISSN: 13616668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/22/11/114002     Document Type: Article

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