Advanced MMIC for Passive Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Imaging

Passive millimeter wave imaging systems above 100GHz have traditionally relied on mixer front-ends. InP HEMT low-noise amplifiers are reported for considerably higher frequencies, including a 70nm gate cascode amplifier with gain well into the 100GHz range, and two 35nm gate amplifiers operating at ~300GHz.

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