Jackson BD, Hesper R, Adema J, Barkhof J, Baryshev AM, Zijlstra T, et al. Series production of state-of-the-art 602-720 GHz SIS receivers for band 9 of ALMA. In: Proc. 20th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol.; 2009. p. 7–11.
Abstract: The Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) requires the development and production of 73 state-of-the-art receivers for the 602-720 GHz range – the ALMA Band 9 cartridges. Development and pre-production of the first 8 cartridges was completed between 2003 and 2008, resulting in a cartridge design that meets the project's challenging requirements. The cartridge design remains essentially unchanged for production, while the production and test processes developed during pre-production have been fine-tuned to address the biggest new challenge for this phase – ramping up production to a rate of 2 cartridges per month over 2009-2012.
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