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Tong, C.-Y. Edward; Meledin, Denis; Blundell, Raymond; Erickson, Neal; Kawamura, Jonathan; Mehdi, Imran; Gol'tsman, Gregory |
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A 1.5 THz hot-electron bolometer mixer operated by a planar diode-based local oscillator |
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2003 |
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Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. |
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Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. |
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waveguide NbN HEB mixers |
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We describe a 1.5 THz heterodyne receiver based on a superconductin g hot-electron bolometer mixer, which is pumped by an all-solid-state local oscillator chain. The bolometer is fabricated from a 3.5 nm-thick niobium nitride film deposited on a quartz substrate with a 200 nm-thick magnesium oxide buffer layer. The bolometer measures 0.15 fun in width and 1.5 1..tm in length. The chip consisting of the bolometer and mixer circuitry is incorporated in a fixed-tuned waveguide mixer block with a corru g ated feed horn. The local oscillator unit comprises of a cascade of four planar doublers followin g a MMIC-based W-band power amplifier. The local oscillator is coupled to the mixer using a Martin-Puplett interferometer. The local oscillator output power needed for optimal receiver performance is approximately 1 to 2 11W, and the chain is able to provide this power at a number of frequency points between 1.45 and 1.56 THz. By terminating the rf input with room temperature and 77 K loads, a Y-factor of 1.11 (DSB) has been measured at a local oscillator frequency of 1.476 THz at 3 GHz intermediate frequency. |
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Stéphane Claude |
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Sideband-separating SIS mixer for ALMA band 7, 275–370 GHz |
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RPLAB @ s @ nt_SIS_60at0p34THz |
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Grimes, P.; Kittara, P.; Yassin, G.; Withington, S.; Jacobs, K. |
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Investigation of the performance of a 700 GHz nline mixer |
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Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. |
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RPLAB @ s @ nt_SIS_250at0p69THz |
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Hajenius, M.; Baselmans, J. J. A.; Gao, J. R.; Klapwijk, T. M.; de Korte, P. A. J.; Voronov, B.; Gol’tsman, G. |
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Improved NbN phonon cooled hot electron bolometer mixers |
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Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. |
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Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. |
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NbN HEB mixers |
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NbN phonon-cooled hot electron bolometer mixers (HEBs) have been realized with negligible contact resistance to Au pads. By adding either a 5 nm Nb or a 10 nm NbTiN layer between the Au and NbN, to preserve superconductivity in the NbN under the Au contact pad, superior noise temperatures have been obtained. Using DC I,V curves and resistive transitions in combination with process parameters we analyze the nature of these improved devices and determine interface transparencies. |
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Albert Betz; Rita Boreiko; Yongdong Zhou; Jun Jhao; Yusuf Selamet; Yong Chang; Renganathan Ashokan; Charlie Bukcer; Sivalingam Sivanathan |
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HgCdTe photoconductive mixers for 3-15 terahertz |
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Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol. |
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