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

fYear

2014

fDate

13-16 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2014 16th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887719

Filename

6887719