Treffer: Superconducting integrated receiver based on Nb-AlN-NbN-Nb circuits

Title:
Superconducting integrated receiver based on Nb-AlN-NbN-Nb circuits
Source:
The 2006 applied superconductivity conference, Seattle, WA, August 27-September 1, 2006IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity. 17(2):379-382
Publisher Information:
New York, NY: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2007.
Publication Year:
2007
Physical Description:
print, 13 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 à structure composée, Compound structure devices, Circuits intégrés, Integrated circuits, Conception. Technologies. Analyse fonctionnement. Essais, Design. Technologies. Operation analysis. Testing, Circuits électriques, optiques et optoélectroniques, Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits, Propriétés des circuits, Circuit properties, Circuits électroniques, Electronic circuits, Oscillateurs, résonateurs, synthétiseurs, Oscillators, resonators, synthetizers, Electrotechnique. Electroenergetique, Electrical engineering. Electrical power engineering, Matériel électrique divers, Various equipment and components, Isolateurs, Insulators, Bruit phase, Phase noise, Ruido fase, Circuit faible bruit, Low noise circuit, Circuito débil ruido, Circuit intégré onde submillimétrique, Submillimeter wave integrated circuits, Circuit intégré, Integrated circuit, Circuito integrado, Courant faible, Low current, Corriente débil, Courant fuite, Leakage current, Corriente escape, Dispositif supraconducteur, Superconductor device, Dispositivo supraconductor, Diélectrique, Dielectric materials, Dieléctrico, Ecoulement flux, Flux flow, Salida flujo, Harmonique, Harmonic, Armónica, Isolateur, Insulator, Aislador, Jonction Josephson, Josephson junction, Unión Josephson, Largeur raie, Line width, Anchura raya espectral, Microcircuit, Microcircuito, Mélangeur, Mixer, Mezclador, Oscillateur verrouillage phase, Phase locked oscillators, Puce électronique, Chip, Pulga electrónica, Récepteur, Receiver, Receptor, Structure SIS, SIS structure, Estructura SIS, Supraconducteur, Superconducting materials, Supraconductor, Température bruit, Noise temperature, Temperatura ruido, Verrouillage phase, Phase locking, Enganche de fase, Josephson junctions, phase-locked oscillators, submillimeter wave integrated circuits, superconducting devices
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Science, Mokhovaya 11, 125009, Moscow, Russian Federation
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, 9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands
ISSN:
1051-8223
Rights:
Copyright 2007 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Electrical engineering. Electroenergetics

Electronics
Accession Number:
edscal.19010217
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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The Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) comprising in one chip a superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) mixer and a phase-locked superconducting Flux Flow Oscillator (FFO) is under development for the international project TELIS. To overcome temperature constraints and extend operation frequency of the SIR we have developed and studied Nb-AlN-NbN-Nb circuits with a gap voltage Vg up to 3.7 mV and extremely low leakage currents (Rj/Rn > 30). Based on these junctions integrated microcircuits comprising FFO and harmonic mixer have been designed, fabricated and tested; the radiation from such circuits has been measured at frequencies up to 700 GHz. Employment of NbN electrode does not result in the appearance of additional noise. For example, FFO linewidth as low as 1 MHz was measured at 600 GHz, that allows us to phase lock up to 92% of the emitted by FFO power and realize very low phase noise about -90 dBc. Preliminary results demonstrated uncorrected DSB noise temperature of the Nb-AlN-NbN SIR below 250 K at frequencies around 600 GHz.