Commercial satellite applications for heterojunction microelectronics technology

Author

Greiling, Paul ; Ho, Nelson

Author_Institution

HRL Res. Labs., Malibu, CA, USA

Volume

46

Issue

6

fYear

1998

fDate

6/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

734

Lastpage

738

Abstract

Future commercial satellite-based communication systems will be supporting a variety of high data-rate consumer and business applications, including universal telephony access, computer networking, teleimaging, telecommuting, videoconferencing, and high-speed Internet. In response to the anticipated system-performance requirements, heterojunction technology for ultra-low noise amplifiers (LNAs), high-efficiency power amplifiers, and high-speed analog/digital circuits capable of operating at multigigabit per second rates are being developed. An overview of the status and issues related to this development effort is presented

Keywords

consumer electronics; data communication; microwave amplifiers; microwave links; satellite communication; computer networking; heterojunction microelectronics technology; high data-rate consumer applications; high-efficiency power amplifiers; high-speed Internet; high-speed analog/digital circuits; multigigabit per second rates; satellite-based communication systems; system-performance requirements; telecommuting; teleimaging; ultra-low noise amplifiers; universal telephony access; videoconferencing; Application software; Business communication; Computer networks; Heterojunctions; High power amplifiers; Internet telephony; Satellites; Telecommunication computing; Teleconferencing; Teleworking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.681194

Filename

681194