Grain Boundary Josephson Junction Harmonic Mixer Coupled with a Bowtie Loaded Meander Antenna with Zero-Bias Operation

Mei Yu; Jian Chen; Peiheng Wu; Haifeng Geng; Xiang Gao; Tao Hua; Wei Chen; Jianxin Shi; Weiwei Xu; Zhi Ning Chen; Huabing Wang

doi:10.1109/TASC.2019.2951120

Grain Boundary Josephson Junction Harmonic Mixer Coupled with a Bowtie Loaded Meander Antenna with Zero-Bias Operation

Mei Yu
, Jian Chen
, Peiheng Wu
, Haifeng Geng
, Xiang Gao
, Tao Hua
, Wei Chen
, Jianxin Shi
, Weiwei Xu^*
, Zhi Ning Chen
, Huabing Wang

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The high-T_c superconducting (HTS) bicrystal YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ (YBCO) zero-bias-operation Josephson junction (JJ) harmonic mixer coupled with a bowtie loaded meander antenna (BLMA) is proposed and studied at 0.21 THz. When the JJ mixer coupled with the BLMA, the maximal harmonic number increases up to 146 with the conversion efficiency of -63.6 dB at the bath temperature around 4.6 K compared to a mixer coupled with a log-periodic antenna (LPA) of only a maximal harmonic number of 46 with the conversion efficiency of -71.6 dB. The mixer coupled with the BLMA has a higher order harmonic mixing with a lower local oscillator (LO) power of 1.26 dBm, which further illustrates its superiority to that coupled with a LPA with the LO power of 5.59 dBm. The experiment verifies the merits of the JJ harmonic mixer operating at zero bias as a promising device in terahertz regions.

Original language	English
Article number	8890653
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume	29
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2019.2951120
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Josephson junction (JJ)
harmonic mixer
meander antenna
zero-bias operation

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