Effect of the Critical and Operational Temperatures on the Sensitivity of MgB2 HEB Mixers
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

In this paper, we present a study of the noise and the gain of MgB hot-electron bolometer mixers with different critical temperatures and at various operation temperatures. At a local oscillator (LO) frequency of 1.63 THz the minimum input receiver noise temperature was 700 K with a gain of 18 dB for a device with a of 8.5 K. For a device with a of 22.5 K the corresponding values were 1700 K and 19 dB. For the latter device the was 2150 K at a bath temperature of 12 K, which is not achievable with Nb-compound based HEB mixers. We present and compare different methods for measurements of the HEB mixer gain and the output noise.

hot-electron bolometer (HEB)

noise temperature

conversion gain

MgB2 film

Bolometer

sub-mm astronomy

THz mixer.

Författare

Evgenii Novoselov

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Terahertz- och millimetervågsteknik

Stella Bevilacqua

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Terahertz- och millimetervågsteknik

Serguei Cherednichenko

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Terahertz- och millimetervågsteknik

Hiroyuki Shibata

Yasuhiro Tokura

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

2156-342X (ISSN) 21563446 (eISSN)

Vol. 6 2 238-277 7434079

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Nanovetenskap och nanoteknik

Infrastruktur

Kollberglaboratoriet

Nanotekniklaboratoriet

Ämneskategorier

Fysik

Elektroteknik och elektronik

Nanoteknik

DOI

10.1109/TTHZ.2016.2520659

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