Millimeter wave mixing with submicron area Nb tunnel junctions
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 53 (2) , 823-827
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.330587
Abstract
Submicron area Nb edge tunnel junctions have been fabricated yielding devices with RC times of 10−13 s. Tested as quasiparticle mixers at 55 GHz, they yielded conversion loss of 6.4 db SSB and a noise temperature ?27 K. A gain of 1.4 db with a noise temperature of 145 K was also achieved but was attributed to the Josephson effect.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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