System-on-Chip 36.8 GHz Radiometer for Space-Based Observation of Solar Flares: Feasibility Study in 0.25 μm SiGe BiCMOS Technology
| Autor: | Luca Roselli, Stephen M. White, Federico Alimenti, Luca Aluigi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Physics
Time delay and integration Radiation Radiometer Solar flare solar flares Detector millimeter-wave radiometers Condensed Matter Physics Chip Noise (electronics) Responsivity space-based scientific instruments System-on-Chip (SoC) Electronic engineering System on a chip Electrical and Electronic Engineering Remote sensing |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | This paper deals with a feasibility study for a System-on- Chip (SoC) mm-wave radiometer devoted to space-based observation of solar ∞ares and operating in the Ka-band. The radiometer has been designed in 250nm SiGe BiCMOS process. The circuit integrates a three stages difierential LNA with 37.2dB gain and 4.8dB noise flgure at 36.8GHz and a difierential square-law detector based on HBTs, featuring a 96mV/"W responsivity. The full radiometer achieves, potentially, a NETD of 0.1K for 1s integration time in Dicke mode. This work represents the flrst study of such an integrated instrument for Ka-band space-based observation of solar ∞ares. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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