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J. Schleeh
N. Wadefalk
P. Å. Nilsson
J. P. Starski
G. Alestig
J. Halonen
B. Nilsson
A. Malmros
H. Zirath
J. Grahn
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Cryogenic 0.5–13 GHz low noise amplifier with 3 K mid-band noise temperature

Abstract:

A 0.5–13 GHz cryogenic MMIC low-noise amplifier (LNA) was designed and fabricated using a 130 nm InP HEMT process. A packaged LNA has been measured at both 300 K and 15 K. At 300 K the measured minimum noise temperature was 48 K at 7 GHz. At 15 K the measured minimum noise temperature was 3 K at 7 GHz and below 7 K within the entire 0.5–13 GHz band. The gain was between 34 dB and 40 dB at 300 K and between 38 dB and 44 dB at 4 K.