Performance of the ALMA band 10 SIS receiver prototype model

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 21, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 606-611

  Fujii, Yasunori ^a   Kroug, Matthias ^a   Kaneko, Keiko ^a   Gonzalez, Alvaro ^a   Uzawa, Yoshinori ^a   Kojima, Takafumi ^a   Kuroiwa, Koich ^a   Miyachi, Akihira ^a   Makise, Kazumasa ^b   Wang, Zhen ^b   Shan, Wenlei ^c  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

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

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atacama large millimeter; Band 10; Niobium titanium nitride; Sis device; Submillimeter array

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA; BAND 10; NIOBIUM TITANIUM NITRIDE; SIS DEVICE; SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY;

MIXING; NIOBIUM; TITANIUM; TITANIUM NITRIDE; WAVEGUIDES;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 79957964430     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2010.2093861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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