PT Unknown
AU Kollberg, EL
   Gershenzon, E
   Goltsman, G
   Yngvesson, KS
TI Hot electron mixers, the potential competition
SE Proc. ESA Symp. on Photon Detectors for Space Instrumentation
PY 1992
BP 201
EP 206
DE HEB mixers
AB There is an urgent need in radio astronomy for low noise heterodyne receivers for frequencies above about 500 GHz. It is not certain that mixers based on superconducting quasiparticle tunnelling (SIS mixers) may turn out to be the answer to this need. In order to try to find an alternative way for realizing low noise heterodyne receivers for submillimeter waves, so called hot electron bolometric effects for mixing are now being investigated. Two basically different approaches are tried, one based on semiconductors and one on superconductors. Both methods are briefly discussed in this overview paper.
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