Construction of a Side-Band-Separating heterodyne mixer for band 9 of ALMA

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology 2007, ISSTT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-43

  Mena, F P ^a   Kooi, J W ^b   Baryshev, A M ^a   Lodewijk, C F J ^c   Hesper, R ^a   Wild, W ^a   Klapwijk, T M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-SIDEBAND; FILTERING SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY RANGES; HETERODYNE MIXERS; HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; QUADRATURE HYBRIDS; SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 78650876865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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