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2001 Table of Contents

TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY

February 14–16, 2001

Humphrey’s Half Moon Inn, Shelter Island

San Diego, California

1. Session 1 SIS Mixers, Chair: Dr. Karl Jacobs

   • NbTiN Based Tuning Structures For Broadband Nb-Al₂O₃-Nb Sis Mixers From 640 Ghz– 800 Ghz

     S. Glenz, S. Haas, C.E. Honingh, K. Jacobs

   • Waveguide and Quasi-optical 1 THz SIS Mixers Incorporating NbTiN/SiO₂/Al Tuning Circuits

     B.D. Jackson, A.M. Baryshev, G. de Lange, J.-R. Gao, N.N. Iosad, T.M. Klapwijk, S.V. Shitov

   • Low noise 1.2 THz SIS receiver

     A. Karpov, D. Miller, F. Rice, J. Zmuidzinas, J. A. Stern, B. Bumble, H. G. LeDuc

   • Development Of A 480-640 Ghz Tunerless SIS Mixer For First Hifi/Band 1

     M. Salez, Y. Delorme, I. Péron, F. Dauplay, B. Lecomte, M.-H. Chung, J. Spatazza, M. Guillon, K. Schuster, J.-M. Krieg, A. Deschamps

2. Session 2 Hot Electron Bolometer Mixers I, Chair: Boris Karasik

   • Reduced Tc Niobium Superconducting HEB Mixers

     I. Siddiqi, D.E. Prober, B. Bumble, H.G. LeDuc

   • The resistive transition of aluminium hot electron bolometer mixers with normal metal cooling banks

     A. H. Verbruggen, T. M. Klapwijk, W. Belzig, and J. R. Gao

   • Fabrication And Receiver Measurements Of A Diffusion-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometer At 800 Ghz

     J. Stodolka, K. Jacobs

   • An Active Zone Small Signal Model for Hot Electron Bolometric Mixers

     Harald F. Merkel, Pourya Khosropanah, K. Sigfrid Yngvesson, Serguei Cherednichenko, Matthias Kroug, Aurèle Adam, Erik L. Kollberg

   The title of this paper differs from the title listed in the Table of Contents for this Proceeding as does the spelling of the first author. I have used the data from the paper itself.

3. Session 3 LO Sources I, Chair: Lorene Samoska

   • Ballistic Tunneling Transit Time Devices for THz Power Generation

     J. East and G. Haddad

   • Millimeter Wave Generation Using a Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiode

     T. Noguchi, A. Ueda, H. Iwashita, S. Takano, Y. Sekimoto, M. Ishiguro, T. Ishibashi, H. Ito, and T. Nagatsuma

   • Nanoklystron: A Monolithic Tube Approach to THz Power Generation

     Peter H. Siegel, Andy Fung, Harish Manohara, Jimmy Xu, Baohe Chang

   • Embedded Coplanar Strips Traveling-Wave Photomixers

     R.A. Wyss, T. Lee, J.C. Pearson, S. Matsuura, G.A. Blake, C. Kadow, and A.C. Gossard

4. Session 4 Mixers and Detectors, Chair: Peter Siegel

   • HgCdTe Photoconductive Mixers for 2-8 THz

     A.L. Betz, R.T. Boreiko, S. Sivananthan, and R. Ashokan

   • Very Wide IF Bandwidths in High Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Semiconductor Heterostructure Mixers

     Mark Lee, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West

   • Terahertz Detection by High Electron Mobility Transistor: Effect of Drain Current

     J.-Q. Lu and M.S. Shur

   • Kinetic Inductance Photodetectors Based on Nonequilibrium Response in Superconducting Thin-Film Structures

     A.V. Sergeev, B.S. Karasik, I.G. Gogidze, and V.V. Mitin

   • Advances In Composites For Terahertz Radio Astronomy

     S.J. Connell, D.A. Giles

5. Session 5 Poster Session, Chair: Tom Crowe

   Please note, the Table of Contents for this session do not accurately match the content of the Proceedings. Whenever there is a discrepancy, I have erred in favor of the papers themselves and the order in which they appear in the Proceedings, not the TOC.

   • Multiplexed Readout of Thermal Bolometers with Superconducting Transition Edge Thermometers

     Dominic J. Benford, Christine A. Allen, James A. Chervenak, Mino M. Freund, Alexander S. Kutyrev, S. Harvey Moseley, Richard A. Shafer, Johannes G. Staguhn, Erich N. Grossman, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, John M. Martinis, Sae-Woo Nam, and Carl D. Reintsema

   • Negative Resistance Effects In NbN HEB Devices

     Yan Zhuang and K. Sigfrid Yngvesson

   • Development of Nb/Au bilayer HEB mixer for space applications

     P. Yagoubov, X. Lefoul, W.F.M. Ganzevles, J. R. Gao, P. A. J. de Korte, and T. M. Klapwijk

   • RF current distribution in HEB and a 2-dimensional device model

     P. Khosropanah, A. Adam, H. Merkel, S. Cherednichenko, S. Yngvesson, E. Kollberg

   This paper is not listed in the table of contents but is included in the Proceedings in this sequence.

   • Characterization of NbN Thin Films produced on Quartz Substrates using MgO Seed Layers for phonon cooled Hot-Electron Bolometer Devices

     M. Frommberger, P. Sabon, M. Schicke, and K.F. Schuster

   • Superconducting Nb DHEB Mixer Arrays for Far-Infrared Spectroscopy

     E. Gerecht, C. D. Reintsema, E. N. Grossman, A. L. Betz, and R. T. Boreiko

   • Vector Measurements Up To The Thz And Beyond, At Several Frequencies At The Same Time

     P. Goy, S. Caroopen, M. Gross

   • Time-Domain Pulsed THz Near-Field Scanning Microscope with ~ λ/50 Resolution

     Oleg Mitrafanov, Mark Lee, and John Federici

   • Design Of Submillimeter-Wave Camera With Superconducting Direct Detectors

     Seiichirou Ariyoshi, Hiroshi Matsuo, Masanori Takeda, and Takashi Noguchi

   • Characterization of an integrated lens antenna at terahertz frequencies

     P. Yagoubov, W.-J. Vreeling, P. de Korte

   • Design of a 275-370 GHz SIS mixer with image sideband rejection and stable operation

     A. Navarrini, D. Billon-Pierron, K.F. Schuster, B. Lazareff

   • Development of a 600-720 GHz SIS Mixer for the SMART

     S.C. Shi, C.C. Chin, M.J. Wang, W.L. Shan, W. Zhang, and T. Noguchi

   • Development of a High Efficiency 600-700 GHz Backward Wave Oscillators for Submillimeter Applications

     Jeff Neilson, R. Lawrence Ives, and Malcom Caplan

   • Electromagnetic Modeling Of Distributed-Source-Excitation Of Coplanar Waveguides: Applications To Traveling-Wave Photomixers

     Davide Pasqualini, Andrea Neto, Rolf A. Wyss

   • Traveling-Wave Membrane Photomixers

     R.A. Wyss, S.C. Martin, B.J. Nakamura, A. Neto, D. Pasqualini, P.H. Siegel, C. Kadow and A.C. Gossard

   • Photomixer as a self-oscillating mixer

     Shuji Matsuura

6. Session 6 Hot Electron Bolometer Mixers II, Chair: Dan Prober

   • HEB Quasi-optical Heterodyne Receiver for THz Frequencies

     M. Kroug, S. Cherednichenko, M. Choumas, H. Merkel, E. Kollberg, H.W. Huebers, H. Richter, D. Loudkov, B. Voronov, G. Gol'tsman

   The title and authors listed on the actual paper are different than what the Table of Contents lists. The above reflects the paper's content.

   • A Low-noise NbTiN Hot Electron Bolometer Mixer

     C. Edward Tong, Jeffrey Stern, Krikor Megerian, Henry LeDuc, T. K. Sridharan, Hugh Gibson, Raymond Blundell

   • Terahertz Receiver With NbN Heb Device (TREND) - A Low-Noise Receiver User Instrument For AST/RO At The South Pole

     K.S. Yngvesson, C.F. Musante, M. Ji, F. Rodriguez, Y. Zhuang, E. Gerecht, M. Coulombe, J. Dickinson, T. Goyette, J. Waldman, C. K. Walker, A. Stark, and A. Lane

   • Local oscillator power requirement and saturation effects in NbN HEB mixers.

     S. Cherednichenko, M. Kroug, H. Merkel, E. Kollberg, D. Loudkov, K. Smirnov, B. Voronov, G. Gol’tsman, E.Gershenzon

   • Antenna Pattern of the Quasi-Optical Hot-Electron Bolometric Mixer at THz Frequencies

     H.W. Hübers, A.D. Semenov, H. Richter, J. Schubert, S. Hadjiloucas, J.W. Bowen, G.N. Gol'tsman, B.M. Voronov, and E.M. Gershenzon

7. Session 7 LO Sources II, Chair: Antti V. Räisänen

   • Monolithic THz Frequency Multipliers

     N.R. Erickson, G. Narayanan, R.M. Grosslein, S. Martin, I. Mehdi, P. Smith, M. Coulomb, and G. DeMartinez

   • A 1.2 THz Planar Tripler Using GaAs Membrane Based Chips

     J. Bruston, A. Maestrini, D. Pukala, S. Martin, B. Nakamura, and I. Mehdi

   • Design and Performance of a 2.7 THz Waveguide Tripler

     Frank Maiwald, S. Martin, J. Bruston, A. Maestrini, T. Crawford and P. H. Siegel

   • A New Pillar Geometry for Heterostructure Barrier Varactor Diodes

     B.E.J. Alderman, J. Stake, L. Dillner, D.P. Steenson, M. Ingvarson, E.L. Kollberg, C.M. Mann, and J.M. Chamberlain

   • Temperature Effects in Varactors and Multipliers

     J. East and I. Mehdi

8. Session 8 SIS Mixers II, Chair: Anders Skalare

   • Performance Of An All-NbN Quasi-Optical SIS Mixer For The Terahertz Band

     Yoshinori Uzawa, Zhen Wang, Akira Kawakami, and Shigehito Miki

   • A Low-Noise Double-Dipole Antenna SIS Mixer at 1 THz

     S. V. Shitov, B. D. Jackson, A. M. Baryshev, N. N. Iosad, J.-R. Gao, and T. M. Klapwijk

   • Design of Sideband Separation SIS Mixer for 3 mm Band

     V. Vassilev and V. Belitsky

9. Session 9 Measurements and Characterization, Chairs: C. Edward Tong

   • Reflectivity Measurements of Commercial Absorbers in the 200–600 GHz Range

     Jussi Säily, Juha Mallat, Antti V. Räisänen

   • Development of a Hologram CATR for Submm-wavelengths

     Janne Häkli, Jussi Säily, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Tomi Koskinen, Anne Lönnqvist, Arto Lehto, Jussi Tuovinen, Antti V. Räisänen

   • Optical Characterization of Absorbing Coatings for Sub-millimeter Radiation

     T.O. Klaassen, M.C. Diez, J.H. Blok, C. Smorenburg, K.J. Wildeman, G. Jakob

   • Design and Fabrication of Quartz Vacuum Windows with Matching Layers for Millimeter-Wave Receivers

     Daniel Koller, A. R. Kerr, G. A. Ediss, and D. Boyd

   • Characterization of Various Quasi-Optical Components for the Submillimeter Limb-Sounder SMILES

     A. Murk, N. Kämpfer, R.Wylde, J. Inatani, T. Manabe, and M. Seta

10. Session 10 Direct Detectors, Chair: Jamie Bock

    Please note, I took the liberty of correcting the numbering errors in the table of contents for Sessions 10 and 11.

    • Novel Multiplexing Technique for Detector and Mixer Arrays

      Boris S. Karasik and William R. McGrath

    • Optical Qualification of the Normal Metal Hot-Electron Microbolometer (NHEB)

      Denis Chouvaev, Daniel Sandgren, Michael Tarasov, and Leonid Kuzmin

    • Focal Plane Arrays of Voltage-Biased Superconducting Bolometers

      Michael J. Myers, John Clarke, J. M. Gildemeister, Adrian T. Lee, P. L. Richards, Dan Schwan, J. T. Skidmore, Helmuth Spieler, Jongsoo Yoon

    • Superconducting NbN-based ultrafast hot-electron single-photon detector for infrared range

      A. Verevkin, Y. Xu, X. Zheng C. Williams, Roman Sobolewski, 0. Okunev, K. Smirnov, G. Chulkova, A. Korneev, A. Lipatov, and G. N. Gol'tsman

    • Background Limited Quantum Superconducting Detector for Submillimeter Wavelengths

      Gregory Gol'tsman, Alexei Semenov, Konstantin Smirnov, and Boris Voronov

    • SIS photon detectors for submillimeter-wave observations

      Hiroshi Matsuo, Seiichirou Ariyoshi, Masanori Takeda, and Takashi Noguchi

11. Session 11 LO Sources III, Chair: Jean Bruston

    • InP MMIC Chip Set for Power Sources Covering 80-170 GHz

      Lorene Samoska, Vesna Radisic, Miro Micovic, Ming Hu, Paul Janke, and Catherine Ngo

    • Design Considerations For Heavily-Doped Cryogenic Schottky Diode Varactor Multipliers

      E. Schlecht, F. Maiwald, G. Chattopadhyay, S. Martin, and I. Mehdi

    • Experimental investigation of local oscillator chains with GaAs planar diodes at cryogenic temperatures

      A. Maestrini, D. Pukala, E. Schlecht, I. Mehdi, and N. Erickson

    • Widely-Tunable Laser-Sideband THz Source For Spectroscopy & LO Applications

      Eric R. Mueller, Jeffrey L. Hesler, Thomas W. Crowe, David S. Kurtz, and Robert M. Weikle II

12. Session 12 Miscellaneous, Chair: S-K. Pan

    • Laser Micromachining Fabrication of THz Components

      C. Drouët d’Aubigny, C. Walker, B. Jones, C. Groppi, J. Papapolymerou, C. Tavernier

    • The Electromagnetic Properties Of The Superconducting Co-Planar Waveguide

      P. Kittara, G. Yassin, and S. Withington

    • Gap Excitations and Series Loads in Microstrip Lines: Equivalent Network Characterization with Application to THz Circuits

      Andrea Neto and Peter H. Siegel

13. Session 13 Receivers, Chair: John Pearson

    • PoleStar: An 810 GHz Array Receiver for AST/RO

      Chris Walker, C. Groppi, D. Golish, C. Kulesa, A. Hungerford, C. Drouet d’Aubigny, K. Jacobs, U. Graf, C. Martin, J. Kooi

    The above paper's information is shown as found in the paper itself, not the Table of Contents.

    • KOSMA's 490/810 GHz Array Receiver

      U. U. Graf, S. Heyminck, E. A. Michael, S. Stanko

    • Array-Receiver LO Unit using collimating Fourier-Gratings

      S. Heyminck and U.U.Graf

    • Fabrication and Characterization of a 600 GHz Resonant Distributed SIS Junction for Fixed-tuned Waveguide Receiver

      Teruhiko Matsunaga, Cheuk-yu Edward Tong, Takashi Noguchi, and Raymond Blundell

    • Development of a 0.6 THz SIS Receiver for ALMA

      A.M. Baryshev, L. de Jong, R. Hesper, H. Schaeffer, H. van de Stadt, W. Wild, T. Zijlstra, M. Zuiddam

14. Participants

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