Measurement of a 270 GHz low noise amplifier with 7.5 dB noise figure

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 546-548

  Gaier, T ^b   Samoska, L ^a,b   Fung, A ^b   Deal, W R ^a,c   Radisic, V ^a,c   Mei, X B ^c   Yoshida, W ^c   Liu, P H ^c   Uyeda, J ^c   Barsky, M ^c   Lai, R ^c  

^a IEEE

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Low noise amplifier (LNA); MM wave; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Noise measurement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

NOISE MEASUREMENT; WAFER PROBE;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34547432721     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2007.899324     Document Type: Article

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