• ALMA Band 10 development:

ASIAA has been working on the highest frequency (950 GHz) receiver band (Band 10), in collaboration with Japan, particularly focusing on the mixer design and fabrication. Both SMA-type and NAOJ-type mixers have been successfully fabricated in IAA and tested in 2006. The SMA-type mixers suffer from a cooling problem while the NAOJ-type mixers showed reasonable results. At the end of 2006, the laboratory moved into a new facility with newly constructed clean rooms (class 10K of 45 m2 and class 1K of 16 m2). Fabrication Processes have been recovered in early 2007.