University of Massachusetts Amherst

UMass Amherst Radio Frequency Nanoelectronics Group

Selected Recent Publications

J.C. Bardin and S. Weinreb, "A DC-4 GHz 270Ω differential SiGe low-noise amplifier for cryogenic applications," Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), 2010 European, vol., no., pp.186-189, 27-28 Sept. 2010

J.C. Bardin, Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for Extremely Low-Noise Applications, Ph.D Dissertation, California Institute of Technology, June 2009.

J.C. Bardin and S. Weinreb, "A 0.1-5 GHz Cryogenic SiGe LNA," IEEE Microwave and Wireless Component Letters, vol.19, no.6, pp.407-409, June 2009.

S . Weinreb, J.C. Bardin, H. Mani, and G. Jones, "Matched Wideband Low-Noise Amplifiers for Radio Astronomy," Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 80, April 2009.

J.C. Bardin and S. Weinreb, "A 0.5–20GHz Quadrature Downconverter," 2008 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, pp.186-189, 13-15 Oct. 2008.

T.K. Thrivikraman, J.Yuan, J.C. Bardin, H. Mani, S.D. Phillips, W-M L. Kuo, J.D. Cressler and S. Weinreb, "SiGe X-BAND HBT LNAs for Ultra-Low-Noise Cryogenic Receivers," IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components, Vol. 18, No. 7, July 2008.

J.C. Bardin and S. Weinreb, "Experimental Cryogenic Modeling and Noise of SiGe HBTs," Microwave Symposium Digest, 2008 IEEE MTT-S International, pp.459-462, 15-20 June 2008.

S. Weinreb, J.C. Bardin, and H. Mani, "Design of SiGe Cryogenic Low-Noise Amplifiers," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 55, pp.2306-2312, November 2007.