Cryogenic amplifiers for Jansky Very Large Array receivers

2012 19th International Conference on Microwaves, Radar and Wireless Communications, MIKON 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 748-751

  Pospieszalski, Marian W ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

heterostucture field effect transistors; high electron mobility transistors; low noise amplifiers; low noise receiver; noise models; noise parameters; radio astronomy; radiotelscopes

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS COVERAGE; CRYOGENIC AMPLIFIER; DESIGN APPROACHES; DEVICE MODELS; LOW NOISE RECEIVERS; NEW DESIGN; NOISE MODELS; NOISE PARAMETERS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; NOISE TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL TEMPERATURE; RADIOTELSCOPES; VERY LARGE ARRAYS;

HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; RADAR; RADIO ASTRONOMY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CRYOGENICS;

EID: 84864682933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MIKON.2012.6233589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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