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Result: Terahertz superconducting hot electron bolometer heterodyne receivers

Title:
Terahertz superconducting hot electron bolometer heterodyne receivers
Authors:
GAO, J. R, HAJENIUS, M, YANG, Z. Q, BASELMANS, J. J. A, KHOSROPANAH, P, BARENDS, R, KLAPWIJK, T. M
Source:
The 2006 applied superconductivity conference, Seattle, WA, August 27-September 1, 2006IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity. 17(2):252-258
Publisher Information:
New York, NY: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2007.
Publication Year:
2007
Physical Description:
print, 35 ref 1
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Electronics, Electronique, Electrical engineering, Electrotechnique, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Sciences appliquees, Applied sciences, Electronique, Electronics, Electronique des semiconducteurs. Microélectronique. Optoélectronique. Dispositifs à l'état solide, Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices, Dispositifs supraconducteurs, Superconducting devices, Circuits électriques, optiques et optoélectroniques, Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits, Propriétés des circuits, Circuit properties, Circuits électroniques, Electronic circuits, Convertisseurs de signal, Signal convertors, Circuits hyperfréquences, circuits intégrés hyperfréquences, lignes de transmission hyperfréquences, circuits à ondes submillimétriques, Microwave circuits, microwave integrated circuits, microwave transmission lines, submillimeter wave circuits, Circuits optiques et optoélectroniques, Optical and optoelectronic circuits, Optique intégrée. Fibres et guides d'onde optiques, Integrated optics. Optical fibers and wave guides, Antenne fente, Slot antenna, Antena ranurada, Bolomètre supraconducteur, Superconductor bolometer, Bolómetro supraconductor, Couche mince, Thin film, Capa fina, Domaine fréquence THz, THz range, Détection directe, Direct detection, Detección directa, Electron chaud, Hot electron, Electrón caliente, Large bande, Wide band, Banda ancha, Mélangeur, Mixer, Mezclador, Oscillateur local, Local oscillator, Oscilador local, Procédé contact, Contact process, Procedimiento contacto, Recherche spatiale, Space research, Investigación espacial, Récepteur hétérodyne, Heterodyne receivers, Récepteur onde submillimétrique, Submillimeter wave receivers, Récepteur optique, Optical receiver, Receptor óptico, Sensibilité, Sensitivity, Sensibilidad, Température bruit, Noise temperature, Temperatura ruido, 0757K, Heterodyne receiver, THz quantum cascade laser, superconducting hot electron bolometer mixer, terahertz
Subject Geographic:
Europe, Europa, Pays Bas, Netherlands, Holanda
Document Type:
Conference Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht/Groningen, Netherlands
Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ, Delft, Netherlands
ISSN:
1051-8223
Access URL:
http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=search&terms=19010187
Rights:
Copyright 2007 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Electronics
Accession Number:
edscal.19010187
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

We highlight the progress on NbN hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixers achieved through fruitful collaboration between SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. This includes the best receiver noise temperatures of 700 K at 1.63 THz using a twin-slot antenna mixer and 1050 K at 2.84 THz using a spiral antenna coupled HEB mixer. The mixers are based on thin NbN films on Si and fabricated with a new contact-process and-structure. By reducing their areas HEB mixers have shown an LO power requirement as low as 30 nW. Those small HEB mixers have demonstrated equivalent sensitivity as those with large areas provided the direct detection effect due to broadband radiation is removed. To manifest that a HEB based heterodyne receiver can in practice be used at arbitrary frequencies above 2 THz, we demonstrate a 2.8 THz receiver using a THz quantum cascade laser (QCL) as local oscillator.