• DocumentCode
    992844
  • Title

    Experimental investigation of a new spectrometer comprising a Josephson junction

  • Author

    Stumper, Ulrich ; Hinken, J.H. ; Richter, Wolfgang ; Schiel, D. ; Grimm, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, West Germany
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    13
  • fYear
    1984
  • Firstpage
    540
  • Lastpage
    541
  • Abstract
    It is experimentally shown that an Nb-Nb point contact Josephson junction can be used as a very sensitive spectrometer of good frequency resolution in the range of millimetre waves by applying an inverse Hilbert transform on a characteristic deformation of its I/V characteristic caused by the absorbed RF energy.
  • Keywords
    Josephson effect; microwave spectrometers; niobium; superconducting junction devices; I/V characteristic; MM-waves; Nb-Nb point contact Josephson junction; absorbed RF energy; characteristic deformation; frequency resolution; inverse Hilbert transform; microwave spectroscopy; millimetre waves; sensitive spectrometer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19840374
  • Filename
    4248842