A Bunch of YBCO Josephson Generators for the Analysis of Resonant Cold-Electron Bolometers

Abstract

The resonant properties of Cold-Electron Bolometers (CEBs) located at a 0.3 K cryostat plate are measured using a 50 μm long high-temperature YBa2Cu3O7−δ (YBCO) Josephson junction oscillator, placed on a 2.7 K plate of the same cryostat. For these purposes, a bunch of YBCO Josephson oscillators with various lengths of dipole antennas and overlapping generation bands has been developed and investigated in 50–500 GHz frequency range. Two setups of Josephson junction placement were compared, and as a result, various narrow-band receiving systems with CEBs have been measured, demonstrating the feasibility of the presented approach.

Keywords

• high-T<i>_c</i> Josephson junction
• anisotropic grain-boundary
• YBCO
• cold-electron bolometer
• resonant properties