Amplifier based broadband pixel for sub-millimeter wave imaging

Optical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Sarkozy, Stephen ^a   Drewes, Jonathan ^b   Leong, Kevin M K H ^a   Lai, Richard ^a   Mei, X B Gerry ^a   Yoshida, Wayne ^a   Lange, Michael D ^a   Lee, Jane ^a   Deal, William R ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MICROSEMI CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Low noise amplifier; Millimeter wave; Millimeter wave monolithically integrated circuit; Pixel; Radiometer; Sub millimeter wave; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE CHANNEL; FREQUENCY RANGES; IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES; INP; MAXIMUM OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; MILLIMETER-WAVE SYSTEMS; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; PLANETARY-EXPLORATION MISSIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; POWER SUPPLY; REDUCED SIZE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; STATE-OF-ART PERFORMANCE; SUB-50 NM; SUBMILLIMETERS; TERA HERTZ; ULTRA-HIGH BANDWIDTH; WAVE IMAGING; WAVE SYSTEM;

AMPLIFICATION; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INDIUM ARSENIDE; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NOISE FIGURE; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INDIUM;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 84870604174     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.51.9.091602     Document Type: Article

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