Cryogenic MMIC low noise amplifiers for wband and beyond

22nd International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology 2011, ISSTT 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 180-183

  Samoska, Lorene A ^a   Church, Sarah ^b   Cleary, Kieran ^c   Fung, Andy ^a   Gaier, Todd C ^a   Kangaslahti, Pekka ^a   Lai, Richard ^d   Lau, Judy M ^b   Mei, Gerry ^d   Reeves, Rodrigo ^c   Sieth, Matthew M ^b   Voll, Patricia ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic low noise amplifiers; InP HEMT; MMIC LNAs; Multi chip modules

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

CRYOGENIC LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; INP HEMT; MMIC LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MONOLITHIC MILLIMETER-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATIONS; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84897002761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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