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    An MMIC low-noise amplifier design technique
    (IEEE, 2016-03) Varonen, M.; Reeves, R.; Kangaslahti, P.; Samoska, L.; Kooi, J. W.; Cleary, K.; Gawande, R. S.; Akgiray, Ahmed Halid; Fung, A.; Gaier, T.; Weinreb, S.; Readhead, A. C. S.; Lawrence, C.; Sarkozy, S.; Lai, R.; Electrical & Electronics Engineering; AKGİRAY, Ahmed Halid
    In this paper we discuss the design of low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) for both cryogenic and room-temperature operation in general and take the stability and linearity of the amplifiers into special consideration. Oscillations that can occur within a multi-finger transistor are studied and verified with simulations and measurements. To overcome the stability problem related to the multi-finger transistor design approach a parallel two-finger unit transistor monolithic microwave integrated circuit LNA design technique, which enables the design of wideband and high-linearity LNAs with very stable, predictable, and repeatable operation, is proposed. The feasibility of the proposed design technique is proved by demonstrating a three-stage LNA packaged in a WR10 waveguide housing and fabricated using a 35-nm InP HEMT technology that achieves more than a 20-dB gain from 75 to 116 GHz and 26-33-K noise temperature from 85 to 116 GHz when cryogenically cooled to 27 K.
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    X- To Ka- Band cryogenic LNA module for very long baseline interferometry
    (IEEE, 2020) Fung, A.; Samoska, L.; Bowen, J.; Montanez, S.; Kooi, J.; Soriano, M.; Jacobs, C.; Manthena, R.; Hoppe, D.; Akgiray, Ahmed Halid; Lai, R.; Mei, X.; Barsky, M.; Electrical & Electronics Engineering; AKGİRAY, Ahmed Halid
    We report a new result of a packaged low noise amplifier (LNA) module with wide bandwidth of 5 to 35 GHz and low noise temperature performance of 10 -18 K, while operated at 10 K ambient. The LNA used 3-stages of sub-50 nm gate length, 100% indium channel content indium phosphide (InP) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). Wideband cryogenic LNAs are important for future radio astronomy observatories. To our knowledge these results represent the lowest noise achieved in a wideband amplifier from 5-35 GHz.