2003- Published Papers:

R. Stevens, P. Norris (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), A. W. Lichtenberger, “Thermal Boundary Resistance of Thin Metal Films and Thermally Conductive Dielectric Materials,” (submitted) ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2003.

S-K Pan 1, A. R. Kerr 1, M. W. Pospieszalski 1, E. F. Lauria 1, W. K. Crady 1, N. J. Horner 1, S. Srikanth 1, E. Bryerton 1, C. T. Cunningham 2, S. M. X. Claude 2, C-C Chin 2, A. W. Lichtenberger 3 (1- NRAO, 2 - Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, 3- UVA), “A Quantum-Limited sensitivity, Ultra-Wide IF Bandwidth, Fixed-Tuned, 84-116 GHz SIS Mixer With Integrated HEFT Preamplifier for ALMA”, Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, Sendai, Japan, Sep. 24-26, 2003.

R.B. Bass, A.W. Lichtenberger, R. Weikle, J.W. Kooi, C.K. Walker, S.-K. Pan, “Ultra-Thin SOI Beam Lead Chips for Superconducting Terahertz Circuits,” Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, Sorento, Italy, September 14, 2003

R.B. Bass, A.W. Lichtenberger, G. Narayanan, “Fabrication of Diffusion-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometers using Electron Beam Lithography,” Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, Sorento, Italy, September 14, 2003

J.W. Kooi , C.D. d'Aubigny , R.B. Bass, C. Walker, A.W. Lichtenberger, “Large RF Bandwidth Waveguide to Thin Film Microstrip Transitions on Suspended Membrane for use in Silicon Micromachined Mixer blocks at THz Frequencies,” Fourteenth International Symposium on Space THz Technology, Tucson, AZ, April 2003

R.B. Bass, J.C. Schultz, A.W. Lichtenberger, C. Walker, J. Kooi, “Beam Lead Fabrication Using Vacuum Planarization,” Fourteenth International Symposium on Space THz Technology, Tucson, AZ, April 2003

A. R. Kerr, J. Effland, S.-K. Pan, G. Lauria, R. Groves, A. W. Lichtenberger, “Measurement of Gain Compression in SIS Mixer Receivers,” Fourteenth International Symposium on Space THz Technology, Tucson, AZ, April 2003

W. Clark, J.Z. Zhang, A.W. Lichtenberger, “Ti Quadlevel Resist Process for the Fabrication of Nb SIS Junctions” IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 13 (2), pp. 115-118, June 2003

R.B. Bass, L.T. Lichtenberger, A.W. Lichtenberger, “Effects of Substrate Preparation on the Stress of Nb Thin Films”, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 13 (2), 3928-3300, June 2003