We have measured the response of an array of Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ intrinsic Josephson junctions to irradiation at 3 GHz. By measuring the dependence of the switching current upon the radio-frequency current for five of the junctions in the array we show quantitatively that the junctions have identical impedances at 3 GHz, this impedance being given by the inverse of the slope of the current-voltage characteristics. Single Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ (BSCCO) crystals were grown by using the travelling-solvent floating-zone technique [12]. The crystal was cut into platelets of approximate dimensions 3 mm x 200 µm x 20 µm (in the a-, b-and c-directions respectively), which were glued on top of an MgO substrate using polyimide. The crystal was cleaved in an argon-filled glove box in order to reduce the height in the c-direction to ~3 µm. Four silver contacts of thickness ~90