The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be an ultrasensitive radio telescope, built to further
the understanding of the most important phenomena in the Universe, including some …

A simple noise model of a microwave MESFET (MODFET, HEMT, etc.) is described and
verified at room and cryogenic temperatures. Closed-form expressions for the minimum …

High-T c superconductivity has generated a great deal of interest because of the challenges
it presents in the fields of material science, condensed matter physics, and electrical …

A major challenge to the scalability of cryogenic computing platforms is the heat load
associated with the growing number of electrical cable connections between the …

This is a review of developments and milestones in the FET and HFET field, including
experimental results compared to model predictions. The noise performance of cryogenic …

A switch capable of routing microwave signals at cryogenic temperatures is a desirable
component for state-of-the-art experiments in many fields of applied physics, including but …

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 …

The state of development of receivers for submillimeter-wave radio astronomy is reviewed.
Bolometers for continuum observation, hot-electron mixer receivers for narrowband spectral …

This article provides for the first time a very extensive experimental characterization coupled
with a fully analytical modeling in order to investigate, in a systematic and comprehensive …

Background: Kinetic Inductance Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifiers (KITWPAs) are a
variant of superconducting amplifier that can potentially achieve high gain with quantum …