High temperature superconducting Josephson terahertz radiation sources

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Journal of Nanjing University(Natural Sciences) ›› 2014, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (3) : 273.

Wang Huabing

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After giving a brief review on the research background of Josephson THz sources and intrinsic Josephson junctions, we report in details on the THz emitters made of intrinsic Josephson junctions, including fabrication, mechanism, self-heating, frequency tunability, and some other respects. The state-of-art THz emitters, with the operation frequency of over 1 THz and the tunability of over 500 GHz, will find themselves many applications in space communication, spectroscopic imaging, and environment monitoring.

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Wang Huabing. High temperature superconducting Josephson terahertz radiation sources[J]. Journal of Nanjing University(Natural Sciences), 2014, 50(3): 273

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