Advanced applications and solid-state power sources for millimeter-wave systems
Abstract
Attention is given to the design features and performance capabilities of mm-wave systems for smart munitions and minimissile guidance, communications, fire control, and radiometry, as well as to the solid state power sources, such as IMPATT diodes, which have made these integrated, light-weight systems possible. The majority of applications foreseen for mm-wave electronics are subsumed under advanced radar systems, including secure and interference-free military radars, high resolution and imaging radars, space object and target characteristics identification, and jet engine exhaust and cannon blast detection. Attention is given to silicon, GaAs, and InP IMPATT diodes and their power combiners.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report A
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984STIA...8527816T
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Equipment;
- Millimeter Waves;
- Power Amplifiers;
- Power Supplies;
- Solid State Devices;
- Avalanche Diodes;
- Exhaust Gases;
- Fire Control;
- High Frequencies;
- Microwave Transmission;
- Missile Systems;
- Radar;
- Radiometers;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering