W band power amplifier development for the Herschel HIFI instrument

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4855, Issue , 2002, Pages 468-479

  Ferber, Robert R ^a   Gaier, Todd C ^a   Pearson, John C ^a   Samoska, Lorene A ^a   Wells, Mary ^a   Swift, Gerald ^b   Yocom, Paul ^b   Chung, Yun ^b   Campbell, April ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Wedge Way ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

GaAs; Herschel observatory spacecraft; Heterodyne receiver; Local oscillator; Mm wave; MMIC; W band amplifiers

Indexed keywords

HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SILICON ALLOYS; SPACECRAFT;

HERSCHEL OBSERVATORY SPACECRAFT; HETERODYNE INSTRUMENT FOR FAR INFRARED INSTRUMENT; HETERODYNE RECEIVER; LOCAL OSCILLATOR; W BAND POWER AMPLIFIER;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0038467315     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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