3 GHz band HTS multichannel receiving unit with 8 modules

Author

Kayano, H. ; Shiokawa, N. ; Kawaguchi, Tatsuki ; Nakayama, Keisuke ; Yamazaki, M.

Author_Institution

Corp. R&D Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

93

Abstract

We have proposed an 3 GHz band High-Tc superconducting (HTS) multichannel receiving unit with 8 receiving modules. Each module consists of a small HTS filter and a cooled low noise amplifier (LNA). The HTS filter consists of a number of inter-digital hairpin microstrip line resonators. The module size realize 22×29.5 mm and vacuum chamber size of the HTS multichannel receiving unit realize 152×180×119 mm. It realizes the smallest size as such module products. Insertion loss of the HTS filter was smaller than 0.1dB. As a results, measured results of noise temperature at 77 K for the HTS multichannel receiving unit improved to less than 1/3 as compared with the noise temperature of only LNA at room temperature.

Keywords

high-temperature superconductors; low noise amplifiers; microstrip filters; microstrip lines; microstrip resonators; superconducting filters; HTS filter; HTS multichannel receiving unit; cooled low noise amplifier; frequency 3 GHz; high Tc superconductor; interdigital hairpin microstrip line resonators; receiving modules; size 119 mm; size 152 mm; size 180 mm; size 22 mm; size 29.5 mm; temperature 77 K; High-temperature superconductors; Microstrip filters; Microwave filters; Noise; Resonator filters; Superconducting filters; Temperature measurement; Cryogenic electronics; Microstrip filters; Superconducting microwave devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS), 2013 IEEE Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2930-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BioWireleSS.2013.6613685

Filename

6613685