학술논문

Low noise amplifier receivers for millimeter wave atmospheric remote sensing
Document Type
Conference
Source
2012 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2012 IEEE MTT-S International. :1-3 Jun, 2012
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
MMICs
Temperature measurement
Atmospheric measurements
Receivers
Noise
Radiometers
Indium phosphide
MMIC LNAs
Millimeter Wave Radiometers
Language
ISSN
0149-645X
Abstract
We currently achieve 3.4 dB noise figure at 183GHz and 2.1 dB noise figure at 90 GHz with our MMIC low noise amplifiers (LNAs) in room temperature. These amplifiers and the receivers we have built using them made it possible to conduct highly accurate airborne measurement campaigns from the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle, develop millimeter wave internally calibrated radiometers for altimeter radar path delay correction, and build prototypes of large arrays of millimeter receivers for a geostationary interferometric sounder. We use the developed millimeter wave receivers to measure temperature and humidity profiles in the atmosphere and in hurricanes as well as to characterize the path delay error in ocean topography altimetry.