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Low-Noise Wide-Band Cooled amplifiers with InP Transistors
Juan Daniel Gallego PuyolFrancisco Colomer
Isaac López FernándezAlberto Barcia
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OUTLINE
• Previous experience• Technical details• Deliverables• Schedule• Manpower
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Experience in Cryogenic Amplifiers (1)
• More than 150 cryogenic LNAs for different applications:– IRAM: Grenoble, PdB interferometer, 30m (IF amplifiers)– HERSCHEL:
• DMs for mixer groups (CALTECH, DEMIRM, IRAM, JPL, KOSMA, SRON)
• DMs Delivered (QMs, FMs, FSs in ALCATEL)– ALMA: Development of 4-8 and 4-12 GHz amplifiers– CFA: Harvard, USA SMA– ARECIBO, Puerto Rico– BORDEAUX Observatory– EMCOR (Atmospheric sensing)– CAY: VLBI receivers (X and K band)– ESOC: X-band for Deep Space Antennas
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Experience in Cryogenic Amplifiers (2)
• Wide experience with HEMT devices– More than 30 batches of commercial GaAs transistors tested– Several models of InP transistors measured
• JPL-TRW (CHOP program): 14 batches, 9 models• ETH Zurich: 7 batches, 4 models• HRL: 2 batches, 3 models• Chalmers University: 1 batch
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ETH T-35 200×0.2 μm gate Experimental transistor Design by request
TRW T-45 CRYO4 200×0.1 μm gate Used in DMs Space qualified, to be used in HIFI CHOP developed
TRW T-42 CRYO3 200×0.1 μm gate Best performance
0.22 mm
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Interstage matching circuits
MICROTECHDC connector
SMA connector
Bias cavity with biasing circuits
Transistor area detail.See sourceinductive feedbackand drainresistive loading
ETH transistorwith bonding wires
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Input matching circuit Output matching circuit
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YCA 2000 (4-8 GHz)
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YCA 2000 (4-8 GHz)
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YCA 2011 1 0703PD<9 mW, T=14 K
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AMSTAR Deliverables
• Amplifier for 2.1.1 80-116 GHz 3mm mixers (IRAM)– One unit– IF=4-8 GHz, 3 stages– Due mid 2005
• Amplifier for 2.1.3 0.5 mm mixer (SRON-TuD)– One unit– IF=4-8 GHz, 3 stages– Due mid 2005
• Amplifier for 2.4.1 4-pixel 3 mm test array (IRAM-RAL)– One unit ? (re-use of 2.1.1)
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AMSTAR Schedule and Milestones
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AMSTAR Manpower
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