Millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuit antennas

GM Rebeiz - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A comprehensive review of integrated circuit antennas suitable for millimeter and terahertz
applications is presented. A great deal of research was done on integrated circuit antennas …

Submillimeter-wave detection with superconducting tunnel diodes

MJ Wengler - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The review presents a theoretical framework for understanding submillimeter detection
using an optical photodiode theory. Both gain and noise in the superconductor-insulator …

Superconducting detectors and mixers for millimeter and submillimeter astrophysics

J Zmuidzinas, PL Richards - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Superconducting detectors will play an increasingly significant role in astrophysics,
especially at millimeter through far-IR wavelengths, where the scientific opportunities …

Bow-tie antennas on a dielectric half-space: Theory and experiment

R Compton, R McPhedran, Z Popovic… - IEEE transactions on …, 1987 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new formulation is discussed for the rigorous calculation of the radiation pattern of a bow-
tie antenna of finite length and infinitesimal thickness, placed on a lossless dielectric …

Quasi-optical slot antenna SIS mixers

J Zmuidzinas, HG LeDuc - IEEE transactions on Microwave …, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quasi-optical SIS mixer designed for efficient radiation coupling is described. The mixer
uses a twin-slot antenna which has the advantages of a good beam pattern and a low …

Two-junction tuning circuits for submillimeter SIS mixers

J Zmuidzinas, HG LeDuc, JA Stern… - IEEE transactions on …, 1994 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The capacitance of superconducting tunnel junctions can seriously degrade the
performance of quasiparticle (SIS) mixers operating in the submillimeter band, so it is …

Submillimeter receivers for radio astronomy

R Blundell - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The state of development of receivers for submillimeter-wave radio astronomy is reviewed.
Bolometers for continuum observation, hot-electron mixer receivers for narrowband spectral …

An improved solution for integrated array optics in quasi-optical mm and submm receivers: the hybrid antenna

TH Buttgenbach - IEEE transactions on microwave theory and …, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dielectric lens antenna that is a special case of an extended hemispherical dielectric lens
and is operated in the diffraction-limited regime is considered. The dielectric lens antenna is …

A broad-band low-noise SIS receiver for submillimeter astronomy

TH Buttgenbach, RE Miller, MJ Wengler… - IEEE transactions on …, 1988 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A quasi-optical heterodyne receiver using a Pb-alloy superconductor-insulator-
superconductor (SIS) tunnel junction as the detector and a planar logarithmic spiral antenna …

Millimeter and submillimeter wavelength radioastronomy

JM Payne - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1989 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The significance of radio astronomy at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths is
described, and some of the more important results are given. The limitations imposed by the …