@Article{Lobanov_etal2011,
author="Lobanov, Y. V.
and Tong, C-Y E.
and Hedden, A. S.
and Blundell, R.
and Voronov, B. M.
and Gol{\textquoteright}tsman, G. N.",
title="Direct measurement of the gain and noise bandwidths of HEB mixers",
journal="IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.",
year="2011",
volume="21",
number="3",
pages="645--648",
optkeywords="waveguide NbN HEB mixers",
abstract="The intermediate frequency (IF) bandwidth of a hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer is an important parameter of the mixer, in that it helps to determine its suitability for a given application. With the availability of wideband low noise amplifiers, it is simple to measure the performance of an HEB mixer over a wide range of IF at a fixed LO frequency using the standard Y-factor method. This in-situ method allows us to measure both the gain and noise bandwidths simultaneously. We have also measured mixer output impedance with a vector network analyser. Intrinsic time constant has been extracted from the impedance data and compared to the mixer{\textquoteright}s bandwidths determined from receiver Y-factor measurement.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=720), last updated on Thu, 13 May 2021 23:46:31 -0500",
doi="10.1109/TASC.2010.2095403",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2010.2095403"
}