TY  - JOUR
AU  - Meledin, D. V.
AU  - Marrone, D. P.
AU  - Tong, C-Y E.
AU  - Gibson, H.
AU  - Blundell, R.
AU  - Paine, S. N.
AU  - Papa, D. C.
AU  - Smith, M.
AU  - Hunter, T. R.
AU  - Battat, J.
AU  - Voronov, B.
AU  - Gol'tsman, G.
PY  - 2004
DA  - 2004//
TI  - A 1-THz superconducting hot-electron-bolometer receiver for astronomical observations
T2  - IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Techn.
JO  - IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Techn.
SP  - 2338
EP  - 2343
VL  - 52
IS  - 10
KW  - NbN HEB mixer
KW  - applications
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0018-9480
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1341652/
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2004.835979
DO  - 10.1109/TMTT.2004.835979
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ID  - Meledin_etal2004
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