Gershenzon, E. M., & Gol'tsman, G. N. (1988). Effect of electromagnetic radiation on a superconductor in a magnetic field. In Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Seriya Fizicheskaya (Vol. 52, pp. 449–451).
Abstract: The effect of electromagnetic radiation on thin superconducting films of Nb with a large number of static defects is investigated experimentally for the case where the film is in the resistive state due to an applied magnetic field and transport current. The results obtained are found to be well described by a model of spatially homogeneous electron heating. It is noted that the results obtained here for Nb films are also valid for Al, NbN, and MoRe films.
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Gershenson, E. M., Gol'tsman, G. N., Elant'ev, A. I., Kagane, M. L., Multanovskii, V. V., & Ptitsina, N. G. (1983). Use of submillimeter backward-wave tube spectroscopy in determination of the chemical nature and concentration of residual impurities in pure semiconductors. Sov. Phys. Semicond., 17(8), 908–913.
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Boyarskii, D. A., Gershenzon, V. E., Gershenzon, E. M., Gol'tsman, G. N., Ptitsina, N. G., Tikhonov, V. V., et al. (1996). On the possibility of determining the microstructural parameters of an oil-bearing layer from radiophysical measurement data. J. of Communications Technology and Electronics, 41(5), 408–414.
Abstract: A method for the reconstruction of microstructural properties of an oil-bearing rock from the spectral dependence of the transmission factor of submillimeter waves is proposed.
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Gol'tsman, G. N. (1999). Hot electron bolometric mixers: new terahertz technology. Infrared Physics & Technology, 40(3), 199–206.
Abstract: This paper presents an overview of recent results for NbN phonon-cooled hot electron bolometric (HEB) mixers. The noise temperature of the receivers based on both quasioptical and waveguide versions of HEB mixers has crossed the level of 1 K GHz−1 at 430 GHz (410 K), 600–650 GHz (480 K), 750 GHz (600 K), 810 GHz (780 K) and is close to that level at 1.1 THz (1250 K) and 2.5 THz (4500 K). The gain bandwidth measured for quasioptical HEB mixer at 620 GHz reached 4 GHz and the noise temperature bandwidth was almost 8 GHz. Local oscillator power requirements are about 1 μW for mixers made by photolithography and about 100 nW for mixers made by e-beam lithography. A waveguide version of 800 GHz receiver was installed at the Submillimeter Telescope Observatory on Mt. Graham, AZ, to conduct astronomical observations of known submillimeter lines (CO, J=7→6, CI, J=2→1). It was proved that the receiver works as a practical instrument.
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Lindgren, M., Currie, M., Zeng, W. - S., Sobolewski, R., Cherednichenko, S., Voronov, B., et al. (1998). Picosecond response of a superconducting hot-electron NbN photodetector. Appl. Supercond., 6(7-9), 423–428.
Abstract: The ps optical response of ultrathin NbN photodetectors has been studied by electro-optic sampling. The detectors were fabricated by patterning ultrathin (3.5 nm thick) NbN films deposited on sapphire by reactive magnetron sputtering into either a 5×10 μm2 microbridge or 25 1 μm wide, 5 μm long strips connected in parallel. Both structures were placed at the center of a 4 mm long coplanar waveguide covered with Ti/Au. The photoresponse was studied at temperatures ranging from 2.15 K to 10 K, with the samples biased in the resistive (switched) state and illuminated with 100 fs wide laser pulses at 395 nm wavelength. At T=2.15 K, we obtained an approximately 100 ps wide transient, which corresponds to a NbN detector response time of 45 ps. The photoresponse can be attributed to the nonequilibrium electron heating effect, where the incident radiation increases the temperature of the electron subsystem, while the phonons act as the heat sink. The high-speed response of NbN devices makes them an excellent choice for an optoelectronic interface for superconducting digital circuits, as well as mixers for the terahertz regime. The multiple-strip detector showed a linear dependence on input optical power and a responsivity =3.9 V/W.
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Semenov, A. D., Hübers, H. - W., Richter, H., Birk, M., Krocka, M., Mair, U., et al. (2002). 2.5 THz heterodyne receiver with NbN hot-electron-bolometer mixer. Phys. C: Supercond., 372-376, 448–453.
Abstract: We describe a 2.5 THz heterodyne receiver for applications in astronomy and atmospheric research. The receiver employs a superconducting NbN phonon-cooled hot-electron-bolometer mixer and an optically pumped far-infrared gas laser as local oscillator. 2200 K double sideband mixer noise temperature was measured at 2.5 THz across a 1 GHz intermediate frequency bandwidth centred at 1.5 GHz. The total conversion losses were 17 dB. The mixer response was linear at load temperatures smaller than 400 K. The receiver was tested in the laboratory environment by measuring the methanol line in emission. Observed pressure broadening confirms the true heterodyne detection regime of the mixer.
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Varyukhin, S. V., Zakharov, A. A., Gershenzon, E. M., Gol'tsman, G. N., Ptitsyna, N. G., & Chulkova, G. M. (1990). AC losses and submillimeter absorption in single crystals La2CuO4. Phys. B Condens. Mat., 165-166, 1269–1270.
Abstract: The La2CuO4 single crystals were used to carry out the measurements of transmission spectra within the submillimeter range of wavelengths, as well as the capacitance C and conductivity G in the region of acoustic frequencies of the metal-dielectric-La2Cu04 system at low temperatures. The optical spectra display a threshold character. There takes place a sharp decreasing of transmission signal in the energy range of hυ>1.5meV. The C(ω,T) and G(ω,T) dependences have a universal form characteristic of relaxation processes of the Debye type. The relaxation time dependence displays a thermoactivation character τ(T)-exp(ξ/T) with a gap value of ξ≃2meV,coinciding with the optical one. It is assumed that there exist excitations with a characteristic energy ~ 2meV in La2Cu04.A possible nature of the revealed low-energy excitations is discussed.
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Gol'tsman, G. N., Kouminov, P., Goghidze, I., & Gershenzon, E. M. (1994). Nonequilibrium kinetic inductive response of YBaCuO thin films to low-power laser pulses. Phys. C: Supercond., 235-240, 1979–1980.
Abstract: Transient non-equilibrium kinetic inductive voltage response of YBaCuO thin films to 20 ps pulses of YAG:Nd laser radiation with 0.63 μm and 1.5 μm wavelength has been revealed. By increasing the sensitivity of 100 ps resolution time registration system and diminishing light intensity (fluence 0.1-1 μJ2/cm2) and transport current (density j≤105 A/cm2) we observed a perculiar bipolar signal form with nearly equal amplitudes of each sign. The integration of the kinetic inductive response over time gives the result which is qualitatively of the same form as the response in the resistive and normal states: nonequilibrium picosecond scale component followed by bolometric nanosecond. Nonequilibrium response is interpreted as suppression of order parameter by excess of quasiparticles followed by a change in resistance in the resistive state and kinetic inductance in superconductive state.
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Gershenzon, E. M., Gol'tsman, G. N., Gogidze, I. G., Semenov, A. D., & Sergeev, A. V. (1991). Processes of electron-phonon interaction in thin YBaCuO films. Phys. C: Supercond., 185-189, 1371–1372.
Abstract: The ultrafast voltage response of YBaCuO films to laser radiation is studied and compared with previously investigated quasiparicles response to radiation of submillimeter wavelength range. Voltage shift under the visible light radiation has two components. Picosecond response realized as suppression superconductivity by nonequilibrium excess quasiparticles, response time is determined by quasiparticles recombination rate. Nanosecond response is probably due to bolometric effect.
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Gousev, Y. P., Semenov, A. D., Gol'tsman, G. N., Sergeev, A. V., & Gershenzon, E. M. (1994). Electron-phonon interaction in disordered NbN films. Phys. B Condens. Mat., 194-196, 1355–1356.
Abstract: Electron-phonon interaction time has been investigated in disordered films of NbN. A temperatures below 5.5 K tau_eph ~ T -1"6 which is attributed to the renormalisation of phonon spectrum in thin films.
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