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Design and Fabrication of the Cryogenically Cooled LNA Module for Radio Telescope Receiver Front-End  

Oh Hyun-Seok (Dept. of Radio Science & Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Lee Kyung-Im (LG MC Company Electronics Handset Research Center)
Yang Seong-Sik (Dept. of Radio Science & Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Yeom Kyung-Whan (Dept. of Radio Science & Engineering, Chungnam National University)
Je Do-Heung (Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute KVN Group)
Han Seog-Tae (Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute KVN Group)
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Abstract
In this paper, the cryogenically cooled low noise amplifier module for radio telescope receiver front-end using pHE-MT MMIC is designed and fabricated. In the selection of MMIC, the MMIC fabricated with the pHEMTS providing successful cryogenic operation are chosen. They are mounted in the housing using the thin film substrate. In the design of the housing, the absorber and the elimination of the gap between the carrier and the housing as well removed the unnecessary oscillations by its structure. The mismatch is improved by ribbon-tuning to provide the best performance at room temperature. The fabricated module shows the gain of $35dB{\pm}1dB$ and the noise figure of $2.37{\sim}2.57dB$ at room temperature over $21.5{\sim}23.5GHz$. In the cryogenic temperature of $15^{\circ}K$ cooled by He gas, the measured gain was above 35 dB and flatness ${\pm}2dB$ and the noise temperatures of $28{\sim}37^{\circ}K$.
Keywords
Cryogenic LNA; pHEMT MMIC LNA Module;
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