Title :
The first CMOS LNA on a radio telescope
Author :
Belostotski, Leonid ; Haslett, J.W. ; Veidt, B. ; Landecker, Thomas L. ; Gray, Andrew D. ; Hovey, Gary J. ; Sheehan, Ev ; Messing, Rob
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Abstract :
This paper reports on the world´s first CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) operating successfully on a radio telescope since October 15th, 2010. The radio telescope used in this work is the Synthesis Telescope operated by the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, NRC, and located near Penticton, BC, Canada. This paper describes the work that led to the installation of the LNA on the telescope and shows measurement results obtained with the telescope.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; low noise amplifiers; radiotelescopes; CMOS LNA; Canada; Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory; NRC; Penticton; low noise amplifier; radio telescope; synthesis telescope; Antenna measurements; CMOS integrated circuits; Noise; Noise measurement; Receivers; Telescopes; Temperature measurement; CMOS; Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO); Square Kilometre Array (SKA); aperture synthesis; low noise amplifier (LNA); radio telescope;
Conference_Titel :
Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2014 16th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
DOI :
10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887719
