Print Email Facebook Twitter Sub-Orbital Flight Demonstration of a 183/540–600 GHz Hybrid CMOS-InP and CMOS-Schottky-MEMS Limb-Sounder Title Sub-Orbital Flight Demonstration of a 183/540–600 GHz Hybrid CMOS-InP and CMOS-Schottky-MEMS Limb-Sounder Author Tang, Adrian (California Institute of Technology; University of California) Alonso Del Pino, M. (TU Delft Tera-Hertz Sensing) Kim, Yanghyo (Steven’s Institute of Technology) Zhang, Yan (University of California) Reck, Theodore (Virginia Diodes Inc.) Jung-Kubiak, Cecile (California Institute of Technology) Nemchick, Deacon (California Institute of Technology) Dyer, Logan (California Institute of Technology) Virbila, Gabriel (University of California) Chattopadhyay, Goutam (California Institute of Technology) Chang, Mau Chung Frank (University of California) Date 2021 Abstract 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 H 2 O 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 O 3 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. Subject CMOSInPhybridSchottkyMEMSlimb-sounderReckTangLE To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f7a55e22-83bc-479f-b73d-ac0847dc499b DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2021.3060622 ISSN 2692-8388 Source IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 1 (2), 560-573 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Adrian Tang, M. Alonso Del Pino, Yanghyo Kim, Yan Zhang, Theodore Reck, Cecile Jung-Kubiak, Deacon Nemchick, Logan Dyer, Gabriel Virbila, Goutam Chattopadhyay, Mau Chung Frank Chang Files PDF 09384893.pdf 9.85 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f7a55e22-83bc-479f-b73d-ac0847dc499b/datastream/OBJ/view