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ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SPACE TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY

May 1-3, 2000

On the Grounds of The University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

1. Opening Session, Chair: Jack East

   • Next Generation of Terahertz Sources and Detectors

     Edgar J. Martinez

   • Terahertz Electronics Research for Defense: Novel Technology and Science

     Dwight Woolard

2. Session 1 HEB 1, Chair: Eyal Gerecht

   • Frequency Dependent Noise Temperature of the Lattice Cooled Hot-Electron Terahertz Mixer

     A.D. Semenov, H.-W. Hübers, J. Schubert, G.N. Gol’tsman, A.I. Elantiev, B.M. Voronov, and E.M. Gershenzon

   • Successful Operation of a 1 THz NbN Hot-Electron Bolometer Receiver

     C.-Y. Edward Tong, Jonathan Kawamura, Todd R. Hunter, D. Cosmo Papa, Raymond Blundell, Michael Smith, Ferdinand Patt, Gregory Gol'tsman, and Eugene Gershenzon

   • Microstripline-Coupled Quasi-Optical Niobium Hot Electron Bolometer Mixers around 2.5 THz

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

   • Direct and Heterodyne Response of Quasi Optical Nb Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixers Designed for 2.5 Thz Radiation Detection

     W.F.M. Ganzevles, J.R. Gao, W.M. Laauwen, G. de Lange, T.M. Klapwijk, and P.A.J. de Korte

   • Aluminum Sub-Micron Superconducting Hotelectron Bolometer Mixers

     I. Siddiqi, A. Verevkin, D.E. Prober, A. Skalare, B.S. Karasik, W.R. McGrath, P. Echternach, and H.G. LeDuc

3. Session 2 SIS 1, Chair: Vladimir Mitin

   • Broadband Array SIS Mixers For 780–880 GHz With Aluminum Tuning Circuits

     Sybille Haas, StephanWulff, Dirk Hottgenroth, Netty Honingh, Karl Jacobs

   • A 350 GHz SIS Imaging Module for the JCMT Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme (HARP)

     J. Leech, S. Withington, G. Yassin, H. Smith, B.D. Jackson, J.R. Gao, T.M. Klapwijk

   • A Low Noise NbTiN-based 850 GHz SIS Receiver for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory

     J. W. Kooi, J. Kawamura, J. Chen, G. Chattopadhyay, J. R Pardo, J. Zmuidzinas, T.G. Phillips, B. Bumble, J. Stern, and H.G. LeDuc

   • Quasi-Optical Terahertz SIS Mixer

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

4. Session 3 Semiconductor 1, Chair: George Haddad

   • State of the Art of Two-Terminal Devices as Millimeter- and Submillimeter-Wave Sources

     Heribert Eisele and George I. Haddad

   • The Oxide Barrier Varactor

     Thomas W. Crowe and Yiwei Duan

   • Power Generation with Fundamental and Second-Harmonic Mode InP Gunn Oscillators - Performance Above 200 GHz and Upper Frequency Limits

     Ridha Kamoua and Heribert Eisele

   • GaN-based NDR Devices for THz Generation

     Egor Alekseev, Andreas Eisenbach, Dimitris Pavlidis, Seth M. Hubbard, and William Sutton

   • Broadband Fixed-Tuned Subharmonic Receivers to 640 GHz

     Jeffrey Hesler

   • Stabilized, Integrated, Far-Infrared Laser System for NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

     Eric R. Mueller, Joel Fontanella, and Robert Henschke

5. Session 4 HEB 2, Chair: Sigrid Yngvesson

   • Superconducting Transition Edge Sensor Bolometer Arrays for Submillimeter Astronomy

     Dominic J. Benford, Christine A. Allen, Alexander S. Kutyrev, S. Harvey Moseley, Richard A. Shafer, James A. Chervenak, Erich N. Grossman, Kent D. Irwin, John M. Martinis, Carl D. Reintsema

   • Comparison Of Two Types Of Andreev Reflection Hot-Electron Microbolometer For Submillimeter Radio Astronomy

     A.N. Vystavkin

   • Development of Focal Plane Arrays Utilizing NbN Hot Electron Bolometric Mixers for the THz Regime

     E. Gerecht, C. F. Musante, Y. Zhuang, M. Ji, K. S. Yngvesson, T. Goyette, and J. Waldman

   • IF Bandwidth of Phonon Cooled HEB Mixers Made from NbN Films on MgO Substrates

     S. Cherednichenko, M. Kroug, P. Yagoubov, H. Merkel, E. Kollberg, K.S. Yngvesson, B. Voronov, G. Gol'tsman

6. Session 5 SIS 2, Chair: Robb McGrath

   • Anomalous Pumped and Unpumped I-V Characteristics of Nb SIS Terahertz Mixers with NbTiN Striplines

     B. Leone, B. D. Jackson, J. R. Gao, T. M. Klapwijk, W. M. Laauwen, and G. de Lange

   • NbTiN/SiO2/NbTiN and NbTiN/SiO2/Al tuning circuits for 1 THz waveguide SIS mixers

     B. D. Jackson, G. de Lange, W. M. Laauwen, J. R. Gao, N. N. Iosad, and T. M. Klapwijk

   • A Single-Chip Balanced Sis Mixer For 200-300 GHz

     A. R. Kerr, S. -K. Pan, A. W. Lichtenberger, N. Horner, J. E. Effland, and K. Crady

   • Performance of Sub-Harmonic Mixing with an SIS Junction

     S. -C. Shi, W. -L Shan, T. Noguchi, K. -C. Xiao

7. Session 6 Micromachining, Chair: John Papapolymerou

   • Micromachined Waveguide Components For Submillimeter-Wave Applications

     K. Hui, W.L. Bishop, J.L. Hesler, D.S. Kurtz, and T.W. Crowe

   • A New Laser Micromachining System for the Fabrication of THz Waveguide and Quasi-Optical Components

     C. Walker, C. Drouet D'Aubigny, C. Groppi, J. Papapolymerou, G. Chin, A. Lichtenberger

   • Development of W-Band Low-Loss MEMS Switches

     Jad Rizk, Jeremy Muldavin, Guang-Leng Tan, and Gabriel M. Rebeiz

   • The Frameless Membrane: A Novel Technology For THz Circuits

     Jean Bruston, Suzanne Martin, Alain Maestrini, Erich Schlecht, Peter Smith, and Imran Mehdi

   • 200 And 400 GHz Schottky Diode Multipliers Fabricated With Integrated Air-Dielectric "Substrateless" Circuitry

     E. Schlecht, J. Bruston, A. Maestrini, S. Martin, D. Pukala, R. Tsang, A. Fung, R. P. Smith, I. Mehdi

   • Development of Efficient Backward Wave Oscillators for Submillimeter Applications

     Jeff Neilson, Lawrence Ives, and Malcom Caplan

8. Session 7 Poster Session, Chair: Tom Crowe

   • Two-stream ballistic instability and terahertz oscillation generation in n+nn+- ballistic diodes and field-effect transistors

     Z. S. Gribnikov, N. Z. Vagidov, and V. V. Mitin

   • Sb-Heterostructure High Frequency Zero-Bias Direct Detection Diodes

     J. N. Schulman, D. H. Chow, C. W. Pobanz, H. L. Dunlap, and C. D. Haeussler

   • Phase Gratings As LO-Distributors In Submm Heterodyne Arrays

     T. Klein, G.A. Ediss, R. Güsten, C. Kasemann

   • Narrow-Band Terahertz Waveform Generation in Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate

     T. Meade, Y.-S. Lee, V. Perlin, H. Winful, T.B. Norris

   • Resonant Tunneling THz Oscillator at Fixed Bias Voltages

     Peiji Zhao, H. L. Cui, D. Woolard

   • SuperMix Now Available

     F. Rice, J. Ward, J. Zmuidzinas, and G. Chattopadhyay

   • Simulated performance of multi-junction parallel array SIS mixers for ultra broadband submillimeter-wave applications

     M. Salez, Y. Delorme, M.-H. Chung, and F. Dauplay

   • Integrated Superconducting Receiver As A Tester For Sub-Millimeter Devices At 400-600 GHz

     S. V. Shitov, A. M. Shtanyuk, V. P. Koshelets, G. V. Prokopenko, L. V. Filippenko, An. B. Ermakov, M. Levitchev, A. V. Veretennikov, H. Kohlstedt, and A. V. Ustinov

   • Modelling Few-Moded Horns for Far-IR Space Applications.

     Ruth Colgan, J. Anthony Murphy, Bruno Maffei, Creidhe O’Sullivan, Richard Wylde, and Peter Ade

   • Submillimeter-wave spectral response of twin-slot antennas coupled to hot electron bolometers

     R.A. Wyss, A. Neto, W.R. McGrath, B. Bumble, H. LeDuc

   • Tunable Antenna-Coupled Intersubband Terahertz (TACIT) Detectors for Operation Above 4K

     Carey L. Cates, Jon B. Williams, Mark S. Sherwin, Kevin D. Maranowski, Art C. Gossard

   • SIS receiver for the 1.2 THz frequency using NbTiN/AlN/Nb junctions

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

   • Study Of Parylene As Anti-Reflection Coating For Silicon Optics At THz Frequencies

     M. Ji, C. Musante, S. Yngvesson, A. J. Gatesman, and J. Waldman

   • Optimization of Superconducting Hot-Electron Sensors: Controlling of Electron-Phonon Relaxation

     A. Sergeev and V. Mitin

   • A Compact, Fiber-Pigtailed, Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy System

     D. Zimdars, J. V. Rudd, and M. Warmuth

   • An Efficient Technique for the Optimization of Submillimeter-wave Schottky-diode Harmonic Multipliers

     Chih-Chien Lee, Boris Gelmont, and Dwight Woolard

   • Developments Of The 810-GHz SIS Receiver With Nb-Based Junctions

     Hiroyuki Maezawa, Takashi Noguchi, Sheng-Cai Shi, Yutaro Sekimoto, Satoshi Yamamoto

   • Bias Dependence of the Thermal Time Constant in Nb Superconducting Diffusion-Cooled HEB Mixers

     D. Wilms Floet, J.R. Gao, T.M. Klapwijk, and P.A.J. de Korte

   • A Cryosystem for Optical Evaluation of the Normal Metal Hot-elctron Microbolometer

     Denis Chouvaev and Leonid Kuzmin

9. Session 8 HEB 3, Chairs: Eric Kollberg

   • A distributed device model for phonon-cooled HEB mixers predicting IV characteristics, gain, noise and IF bandwidth

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

   • Properties Of Nb Thin Films And Their Application For Diffusion-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometer

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

   • Diffusion-Cooled Aluminum Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixers At Submillimeter Wavelengths

     Anders Skalare, William R. McGrath, Pierre M. Echternach, Henry G. LeDuc, Irfan Siddiqi, Aleksandr Verevkin, Daniel E. Prober

   • Noise and Mixing in Aluminum Based Sub-Micron Hot-Electron Bolometers

     A. Verevkin, I. Siddiqi, D.E. Prober, A. Skalare, B.S. Karasik, W.R. McGrath, P.M. Echternach, and H.G. LeDuc

   • Hot-Electron Detectors: Toward Record Sensitivity Via Disorder-Suppressed Electron-Phonon Coupling

     M. E. Gershenson, D. Gong, T. Sato, B. S. Karasik, W. R. McGrath, A. V. Sergeev

10. Session 9 High TC, Chair: Jeffrey Hesler

    • Quasioptical High-T_C Superconductor Josephson Mixer at Terahertz Frequencies

      Marian Darula, Alex D. Semenov, Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers, Josef Schubert

    • Systematic Study of IF Bandwidth in HTS Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixers

      Oliver Harnack, Konstantin Ilin, Michael Siegel, Boris S. Karasik, William R. McGrath, Gert de Lange

    • YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixer at 0.6 THz

      S. Cherednichenko, F. Rönnung, G. Gol’tsman, E. Kollberg, and D. Winkler

    • Externally Phase Locked Submm-Wave Flux Flow Oscillator for Integrated Receiver

      V.P. Koshelets, A.B. Ermakov, S.V. Shitov, P.N. Dmitriev, L.V. Filippenko, A.M. Baryshev, W. Luinge, J. Mygind, V.L. Vaks, D.G. Pavel’ev

    • Evaluation of High-Tc elements in submm-mixers

      D. Diehl, R. Zimmermann, J. Scherbel, M. Darula, O. Harnack, and M. Siegel

11. Session 10 Semiconductor 2, Chair: Imran Medhi

    • Planar Frequency Doublers and Triplers for FIRST

      N.R. Erickson, G. Narayanan, R.P. Smith, S.C. Martin, I. Mehdi, T.W. Crowe, and W.L. Bishop

    • High Q InP-Based Varactor Diodes

      T. David, S. Arscott, P. Mounaix, X. Mélique, F. Mollot, O. Vanbésien, M. Chaubet and D. Lippens

    • Heterostructure Barrier Mixers For Terahertz Applications

      F. Podevin, P. Mounaix, O. Vanbésien, M. Chaubet, and D. Lippens

    • A 4-8 GHz Quasi-MMIC IF Amplifier for a 690 GHz SIS Receiver

      John Ward, David Miller, Jonas Zmuidzinas, Peter O'Brien, Henry G. LeDuc, Robert Bicknell-Tassius

    • Nonlinear Transport In Ballistic Semiconductor Diodes With Negative Effective Mass Carriers

      B. R. Perkins, Jun Liu, A. Zaslavsky, Z. S. Gribnikov, V. V. Mitin, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan

12. Session 11 Antennas and Quasi Optical Structures, Chair: Linda Katehi

    • Instrumentation And Testing Of Submillimeter Wave Compact Antenna Test Ranges

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

    • A Pickett Potter Horn-Reflector Antenna for Submillimetre-Wave Applications

      Phichett Kittara, Ghassan Yassin, Stafford Withington, and Harry Smith

    • A Novel Type of Phase Grating for THz Beam Multiplexing

      Urs U. Graf and Stefan Heyminck

    • Quasi-Optical Multiplexing Using Reflection Phase Gratings.

      W. Lanigan, N.Trappe, J.A. Murphy, R. Colgan, C. O’Sullivan, and S. Withington

    • Design And Analysis Of A Hybrid Feed Antenna For A Flux-Flow Oscillator Integrated 460 GHz SIS Receiver

      M.-H. Chung and M. Salez

13. Participants

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