A 210-280 GHz SIS heterodyne receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. I - Design and performance

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Heterodyning, Millimeter Waves, Noise Temperature, Radio Receivers, Sis (Superconductors), Volt-Ampere Characteristics, Lead Alloys, Mixing Circuits, Radio Telescopes, Rectangular Waveguides, Schottky Diodes, Superconducting Magnets, Very High Frequencies

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The design and performance of a 210 - 280 GHz SIS heterodyne receiver built for use on the Maxwell Telescope are described. The mixer utilizes a lead alloy SIS tunnel junction mounted in 4 to 1 reduced height rectangular waveguide, and is tuned with a backshort in 2 to 1 reduced height guide. The receiver has a receiver noise temperature of less than 200 K (DSB) across the RF band from 210 - 270 GHz with a best noise temperature measured in the laboratory of 113 K (DSB) at 231 GHz. A prototype version of this receiver was successfully operated on the telescope in May 1989. By direct intercalibration with a Schottky diode receiver a best receiver noise temperature of 140 K (DSB) at 245 GHz is deduced.

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