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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

Low-Noise Superconducting Receivers for Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths

Sheng-Cai SHI, Takashi NOGUCHI

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Millimeter- and submillimeter-wave low-noise superconducting receivers, such as superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) mixers, hot-electron bolometer (HEB) mixers, and superconducting direct detectors, are addressed in this paper. Some general topics on the development of SIS mixers, including SIS junction and integrated tuning circuitry, mixing circuitry, and mixer-performance simulation, are extensively discussed. A tuneless waveguide SIS mixer developed at Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) and its performance are presented. The fundamental mechanisms of diffusion- and phonon-cooled HEB mixers and recent advances in HEB mixers are briefly reviewed. Finally, incoherent detectors with superconducting tunnel junctions are discussed. Results for a direct detecting experiment at 500 GHz are given.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E81-C No.10 pp.1584-1594
Publication Date
1998/10/25
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Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Low- and High-Temperature Superconductive Electron Devices and Their Applications)
Category
Analog Applications

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