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Superconducting properties of Nb and NbN thin films for application in diffusion and phonon cooled Hot-Electron Bolometers have been systematically investigated. The materials were sputtered on fused quartz substrates in a wide thickness range. DC-measurements of the Nb films allow us to predict the intermediate frequency bandwidth of a hot-electron bolometer mixer device for a given design. To improve the characteristics of the NbN thin films, we used a 15 nm MgO seed layer.
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