A wideband radiometer module for an unamplified direct detection scalable W-band imaging arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6948, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schaffner, James H ^a   Lynch, Jonathan J ^a   Guinn, Keith V ^a   Schulman, Joel N ^a   Moyer, Harris P ^a   Bowen, Ross ^a   Musni, Marcel ^a  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging array; Millimeter wave radiometer; Passive imaging; W band module

Indexed keywords

(HI-BI) WAVEGUIDE; ANTIMONIDE; DESIGN APPROACHES; DEVICE SCALING; DIRECT-DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) SIMULATIONS; FLIP CHIP (FC) BONDING; FRAME RATES; HIGH VOLUME MANUFACTURE (HVM); IMAGING ARRAYS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING CIRCUITS; LARGE ARRAYS; MICROWAVE SUBSTRATES; MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; NOISE EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE (NETD); OFF CHIP; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; PHASE II; RADIOMETER DESIGN; RF BAND WIDTHS; WIDE BANDS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DETECTORS; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; TECHNOLOGY; TUNNEL DIODES; WAVES;

RADIO ALTIMETERS;

EID: 44949221813     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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