%0 Journal Article
%T Electromagnetic radiation mixer based on electron heating in resistive state of superconductive Nb and YBaCuO films
%A Gershenzon, E. M.
%A Gol’tsman, G. N.
%A Gousev, Y. P.
%A Elant’ev, A. I.
%A Semenov, A. D.
%J IEEE Trans. Magn.
%D 1991
%V 27
%N 2
%@ 1941-0069
%F Gershenzon_etal1991
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%X A theory of an electron-heating mixer which makes it possible to calculate all the characteristics of the device is developed. It is shown that positive conversion gain is possible for such a mixer in the millimeter to near-infrared wavelength range. The dynamic range and the optimum heterodyne power can be selected from a very wide interval by varying the mixing element volume. Measurements made for Nb within the frequency range of 120-750 GHz confirm the theory. The conversion loss obtained at T=1.6 K and normalized to the element reaches 0.3 dB in the intermediate frequency band of 40 MHz; the possible noise temperature is 50 K. The estimation of noise temperature and output band for YBaCuO at T=77 yields 200 K and more than 10 GHz, respectively.
%K YBCO
%K HTS
%K Nb HEB mixers
%R 10.1109/20.133427
%U https://doi.org/10.1109/20.133427
%P 1317-1320