TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gershenzon, E. M.
AU  - Gol’tsman, G. N.
AU  - Gousev, Y. P.
AU  - Elant’ev, A. I.
AU  - Semenov, A. D.
PY  - 1991
DA  - 1991//
TI  - Electromagnetic radiation mixer based on electron heating in resistive state of superconductive Nb and YBaCuO films
T2  - IEEE Trans. Magn.
JO  - IEEE Trans. Magn.
SP  - 1317
EP  - 1320
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
KW  - YBCO
KW  - HTS
KW  - Nb HEB mixers
AB  - 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.
SN  - 1941-0069
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1109/20.133427
DO  - 10.1109/20.133427
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ID  - Gershenzon_etal1991
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