140-220 GHz Imaging Front-end Based on 250 nm InP/InGaAs/InP DHBT Process

Vessen Vassilev; Herbert Zirath; Vedran Furtula; Yogesh Karandikar; Klas Eriksson

doi:10.1117/12.2018397

140-220 GHz Imaging Front-end Based on 250 nm InP/InGaAs/InP DHBT Process
Paper i proceeding, 2013

This paper presents a pre-amplified detector receiver based on a 250 nm InP/InGaAs/InP double heterojunction bipolar transistor (DHBT) process available from the Teledyne scientific. The front end consists of a double slot antenna followed by a five stage low noise amplifier and a detector, all integrated onto the same circuit. Results of measured responsivity and noise are presented. The receiver is characterized through measuring its response to hot (293) and cold (78) K terminations. Measurements of the voltage noise spectrum at the video output of the receiver are presented and can be used to derive the temperature resolution of the receiver for a specific video bandwidth.

Power detectors

InP

DHBT

remote sensing

G-band

receivers

passive imaging

MMIC

responsivity

flicker noise

radiometers

NEP