Medium power amplifiers covering 90-130 GHz for the ALMA telescope local oscillators

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1583-1586

  Samoska, L ^a   Bryerton, E ^b   Morgan, M ^b   Thacker, D ^b   Saini, K ^b   Boyd, T ^b   Pukala, D ^a   Peralta, A ^a   Hu, M ^c   Schmitz, A ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

ALMA; Coplanar waveguide; InP HEMT; MMIC power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ALMA; ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER ARRAY TELESCOPE; INP HEMT; MMIC POWER AMPLIFIERS;

HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33749258229     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1517003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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