@Article{Meledin_etal2004,
author="Meledin, D. V.
and Marrone, D. P.
and Tong, C-Y E.
and Gibson, H.
and Blundell, R.
and Paine, S. N.
and Papa, D. C.
and Smith, M.
and Hunter, T. R.
and Battat, J.
and Voronov, B.
and Gol{\textquoteright}tsman, G.",
title="A 1-THz superconducting hot-electron-bolometer receiver for astronomical observations",
journal="IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Techn.",
year="2004",
volume="52",
number="10",
pages="2338--2343",
optkeywords="NbN HEB mixer; applications",
abstract="In this paper, we describe a superconducting hot-electron-bolometer mixer receiver developed to operate in atmospheric windows between 800-1300 GHz. The receiver uses a waveguide mixer element made of 3-4-nm-thick NbN film deposited over crystalline quartz. This mixer yields double-sideband receiver noise temperatures of 1000 K at around 1.0 THz, and 1600 K at 1.26 THz, at an IF of 3.0 GHz. The receiver was successfully tested in the laboratory using a gas cell as a spectral line test source. It is now in use on the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory terahertz test telescope in northern Chile.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1484), last updated on Tue, 18 May 2021 10:59:15 -0500",
issn="0018-9480",
doi="10.1109/TMTT.2004.835979",
opturl="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1341652/",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2004.835979"
}