Passive millimeter-wave imaging module with preamplified zero-bias detection

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1592-1600

  Lynch, Jonathan J ^b   Moyer, Harris P ^b   Schaffner, James H ^a,b   Royter, Yakov ^b   Sokolich, Marko ^a,b   Hughes, Brian ^b   Yoon, Yeong J ^a,b   Schulman, Joel N ^b,c  

^a IEEE

^b Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct detection; Millimeter wave imaging; Radiometers; W band sensors

Indexed keywords

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; DETECTORS; FOCUSING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHOTORESISTS; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION;

ANALYTICAL MODELLING; COMPONENT PARAMETERS; FOCAL PLANES; INTEGRATION TIME (IT); LOW FREQUENCY (LF); LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER (LNA); MEASURED DATA; MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; NOISE EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE (NETD); NOISE FACTORS; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; RESPONSIVITY; RF BAND WIDTHS; RF MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE SENSORS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 47649121006     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.924361     Document Type: Article

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