TY - JOUR AU - Kroug, M. AU - Cherednichenko, S. AU - Merkel, H. AU - Kollberg, E. AU - Voronov, B. AU - Gol'tsman, G. AU - Hübers, H. W. AU - Richter, H. PY - 2001 DA - 2001// TI - NbN hot electron bolometric mixers for terahertz receivers T2 - IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. JO - IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. SP - 962 EP - 965 VL - 11 IS - 1 KW - NbN HEB mixers AB - Sensitivity and gain bandwidth measurements of phonon-cooled NbN superconducting hot-electron bolometer mixers are presented. The best receiver noise temperatures are: 700 K at 1.6 THz and 1100 K at 2.5 THz. Parylene as an antireflection coating on silicon has been investigated and used in the optics of the receiver. The dependence of the mixer gain bandwidth (GBW) on the bias voltage has been measured. Starting from low bias voltages, close to operating conditions yielding the lowest noise temperature, the GBW increases towards higher bias voltages, up to three times the initial value. The highest measured GBW is 9 GHz within the same bias range the noise temperature increases by a factor of two. UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/77.919508 DO - 10.1109/77.919508 N1 - exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=312), last updated on Mon, 24 May 2021 14:04:58 -0500 ID - Kroug_etal2001 ER -