TY - GEN
T1 - Ultrasensitive Terahertz High-Tc Superconducting Receivers
AU - Gao, Xiang
AU - Zhang, Ting
AU - Du, Jia
AU - Guo, Y. Jay
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - This paper reviews our major technical achievement in high-Tc superconducting (HTS) terahertz (THz) receivers or heterodyne mixers in recent years. By virtue of innovative on-chip antenna/circuit designs, accurate device modelling and simulation, and advanced YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) step-edge junction technology, we have successfully developed a series of HTS Josephson THz mixers with superior performance in terms of operating temperature, intermediate-frequency (IF) bandwidth, conversion gain and noise temperature. These mixers serve as promising receiver frontends for THz wireless communication and sensing systems.
AB - This paper reviews our major technical achievement in high-Tc superconducting (HTS) terahertz (THz) receivers or heterodyne mixers in recent years. By virtue of innovative on-chip antenna/circuit designs, accurate device modelling and simulation, and advanced YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) step-edge junction technology, we have successfully developed a series of HTS Josephson THz mixers with superior performance in terms of operating temperature, intermediate-frequency (IF) bandwidth, conversion gain and noise temperature. These mixers serve as promising receiver frontends for THz wireless communication and sensing systems.
KW - Ultrasensitive terahertz receiver
KW - high-T superconducting mixer
KW - step-edge Josephson junction
KW - wireless communication
KW - wireless sensing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071716481&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEEE-IWS.2019.8804099
DO - 10.1109/IEEE-IWS.2019.8804099
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85071716481
T3 - 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium, IWS 2019 - Proceedings
BT - 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium, IWS 2019 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium, IWS 2019
Y2 - 19 May 2019 through 22 May 2019
ER -