Advanced MMIC receiver for 94-GHz band passive millimeter-wave imager

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E92-C, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1124-1129

  Sato, Masaru ^a   Hirose, Tatsuya ^a   Mizuno, Koji ^b  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dicke radiometer; Low noise amplifier; MMIC; Passive millimeter wave imager; SPDT switch

Indexed keywords

CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); ELECTRIC SWITCHES; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES;

DETECTED VOLTAGES; DICKE RADIOMETERS; ELECTRONIC SWITCHES; IMAGE COLLECTIONS; MECHANICAL CHOPPERS; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGES; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE; SPDT SWITCHES;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 77950387264     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E92.C.1124     Document Type: Article

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