Balanced superconductor-insulator-superconductor mixer on a 9~$μ$m silicon membrane

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2011-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/1105.1956v2

Supercond. Sci. Technol. 24 (2011) 085012

Physics

Instrumentation and Detectors

10 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by Superconductor Science & Technology

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-2048/24/8/085012

We present a 380-520 GHz balanced superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) mixer on a single silicon substrate. All radio-frequency (RF) circuit components are fabricated on a $9 \mu$m thick membrane. The intermediate frequency (IF) is separately amplified and combined. The balanced mixer chip, using Nb/Al/Al$_{2}$O$_{3}$/Nb SIS junctions, is mounted in a tellurium copper waveguide block at 4.2 K using Au beam lead contacts. We find uncorrected minimum receiver double-sideband noise temperatures of 70 K and a noise suppression of up to 18 dB, measured within a 440-495 GHz RF and a 4-8 GHz IF bandwidth, representing state-of-the-art device performance.

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