Abstract
In recent years, responding to the need of the astronomical community, superconductor - insulator - superconductor (SIS) mixers have been developed to operate at THz frequencies. Best results are obtained by using niobium-based tunnel junctions with well-matched low-loss normal metal striplines, which are found to be less lossy than niobium striplines operated above the gap frequency of niobium (700 GHz). Niobium nitride tunnel junctions with a magnesium oxide tunnel barrier, although having reasonable-quality current - voltage characteristics, have been found to be unsuitable owing to excess shot noise resulting from pinholes in the barrier.
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