@Article{Kawamura_etal1996,
author="Kawamura, J.
and Blundell, R.
and Tong, C. yu E.
and Gol{\textquoteright}tsman, G.
and Gershenzon, E.
and Voronov, B.",
title="Performance of NbN lattice-cooled hot-electron bolometric mixers",
journal="J. Appl. Phys.",
year="1996",
volume="80",
number="7",
pages="4232--4234",
optkeywords="NbN HEB mixers",
abstract="The heterodyne performance of lattice-cooled hot-electron bolometric mixers is measured at 200 GHz. Superconducting thin-film niobium nitride strips with \~{}5 nm thickness are used as waveguide mixer elements. A double-sideband receiver noise temperature of 750 K at 244 GHz is measured at an intermediate frequency centered at 1.5 GHz with 500 MHz bandwidth and with 4.2 K device temperature. The instantaneous bandwidth for this mixer is 1.6 GHz. The local oscillator power required by the mixer is about 0.5 $\mu$W. The mixer is linear to within 1 dB up to an input power level 6 dB below the local oscillator power. A receiver incorporating a hot-electron bolometric mixer was used to detect molecular line emission in a laboratory gascell. This experiment unambiguously confirms that the receiver noise temperature determined from Y-factor measurements reflects the true heterodyne sensitivity.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1607), last updated on Wed, 26 May 2021 11:07:20 -0500",
issn="0021-8979",
doi="10.1063/1.363304",
opturl="http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.363304",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1063/1.363304"
}