• DocumentCode
    1051114
  • Title

    Resonant tunnelling diode oscillator as an alternative LO for SIS receiver applications

  • Author

    Blundell, Raymond ; Brown, E.R. ; Parker, C.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophys., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1993
  • Firstpage
    288
  • Lastpage
    290
  • Abstract
    The resonant tunnelling diode (RTD) oscillator has been demonstrated for the first time as a local oscillator (LO) in a heterodyne receiver. Noise measurements made on a sensitive 200 GHz superconductor-insulator-superconductor receiver using both a multiplied Gunn diode and an RTD oscillator as the LO revealed no difference in receiver noise as a function of oscillator type.
  • Keywords
    microwave oscillators; resonant tunnelling devices; superconducting junction devices; superconductive tunnelling; tunnel diodes; 200 GHz; RTD oscillator; heterodyne receiver; local oscillator; multiplied Gunn diode; oscillator type; receiver noise; resonant tunnelling diode; superconductor-insulator-superconductor receiver;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19930197
  • Filename
    277177
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1051114