TY - JOUR
T1 - Sub-Orbital Flight Demonstration of a 183/540–600 GHz Hybrid CMOS-InP and CMOS-Schottky-MEMS Limb-Sounder
AU - Tang, Adrian
AU - Del Pino, Maria Alonso
AU - Kim, Yanghyo
AU - Zhang, Yan
AU - Reck, Theodore
AU - Jung-Kubiak, Cecile
AU - Nemchick, Deacon
AU - Dyer, Logan
AU - Virbila, Gabriel
AU - Chattopadhyay, Goutam
AU - Chang, Mau Chung Frank
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - This paper presents an overview of a sub-orbital flight demonstration with a 183 GHz and 540–600 GHz limb-sounding instrument aboard a stratospheric ballooncraft. The 183 GHz band provides soundings of stratospheric H2O and is implemented with a hybrid CMOS-InP receiver architecture which provides excellent sensitivity while remaining compact (162 g) and offering an extremely low DC power consumption (0.62 W). The 540–600 GHz channel sounds stratospheric O3 and uses a combination of a CMOS local oscillator, GaAs Schottky mixer and micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) RF switch for calibration, again offering competitive form factor (1.4 Kg) and low DC power consumption (6.6 W) compared to prior instruments. The instrument was flown on the NASA Reck-Tang Limb-sounding Experiment (ReckTangLE) ballooncraft and performed atmospheric soundings across New Mexico and Northwestern Texas on Oct. 17 2019.
AB - This paper presents an overview of a sub-orbital flight demonstration with a 183 GHz and 540–600 GHz limb-sounding instrument aboard a stratospheric ballooncraft. The 183 GHz band provides soundings of stratospheric H2O and is implemented with a hybrid CMOS-InP receiver architecture which provides excellent sensitivity while remaining compact (162 g) and offering an extremely low DC power consumption (0.62 W). The 540–600 GHz channel sounds stratospheric O3 and uses a combination of a CMOS local oscillator, GaAs Schottky mixer and micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) RF switch for calibration, again offering competitive form factor (1.4 Kg) and low DC power consumption (6.6 W) compared to prior instruments. The instrument was flown on the NASA Reck-Tang Limb-sounding Experiment (ReckTangLE) ballooncraft and performed atmospheric soundings across New Mexico and Northwestern Texas on Oct. 17 2019.
KW - CMOS
KW - InP
KW - MEMS
KW - ReckTangLE
KW - Schottky
KW - hybrid
KW - limb-sounder
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U2 - 10.1109/JMW.2021.3060622
DO - 10.1109/JMW.2021.3060622
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114330210
VL - 1
SP - 560
EP - 573
JO - IEEE Journal of Microwaves
JF - IEEE Journal of Microwaves
IS - 2
ER -