Low-power very low-noise cryogenic sige if amplifiers for terahertz mixer receivers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 6 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1641-1648

  Russell, Damon ^a   Weinreb, Sander ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenics; low noise amplifier (LNA); low power electronics; monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs); radio astronomy; silicon germanium (SiGe)

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PARAMETER; IF AMPLIFIERS; INPUT RETURN LOSS; LOW NOISE; LOW POWER; NOISE TEMPERATURE; SILICON GERMANIUM; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ MIXER; TEST DATA;

CRYOGENICS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SILICON ALLOYS;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84861812631     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2190744     Document Type: Article

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