Workshop Overview:
The subject of this workshop is MMIC Array Receivers and Spectrographs, specifically, large arrays of coherent detectors based on monolithic microwave (or millimeterwave) integrated circuits in the frequency range from tens to hundreds of gigahertz.
The MMIC Array Workshop has the following objectives:
- Explore the science that would be enabled by large MMIC arrays for cosmology, astrophysics, planetary science, atmospheric science, and remote sensing of the Earth. Would this be “transformational” science?
- Explore the technical promise and projected capabilities of MMIC arrays over the next decade. What are the current limitations to their development? (funding?, shortage of groups working on this worldwide?, other?)
- Determine the key technical developments that are needed both for MMIC arrays themselves and for digital backends. Identify prototypes that should be the subject of follow-on funding.
- Devise a roadmap for MMIC arrays and MMIC array spectrograph development over the next decade, including the prototypes, the likely sources of funding, the principal instrumentalist groups and industries that should be involved, etc.
- Recommend specific prototype development programs that should be funded over the next 2-3 years to ensure timely exploitation of this rapidly developing capability.
Team Leads
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California Institute of Technology
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Charles Lawrence
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Mark Allen — JPL
- Joseph C Bardin — Caltech
- Geoffrey A Blake — Caltech
- Patty Chang-Chien — Northrop Grumman Space Technology
- Goutam Chattopadhyay — JPL
- Sarah E Church — Stanford University
- Kieran A Cleary — Caltech
- Larry D'Addario — JPL
- Clive Dickinson — Caltech
- Brian J Drouin — JPL
- Todd Gaier — JPL
- Paul F Goldsmith — JPL
- Sunil R Golwala — Caltech
- Keith JB Grainge — Cambridge University
- Paul Grimes — Oxford University
- Christopher E Groppi — University of Arizona
- David W Hawkins — Caltech
- Masashi Hazumi — KEK
- Robert F Jarnot — JPL
- Glenn Jones — Caltech
- Danielle A Kettle — University of Manchester
- John M Kovac — Caltech
- Richard Lai — Northrop Grumman Space Technology
- James W Lamb — Caltech
- Bjorn Lambrigtsen — JPL
- Andrew E Lange — Caltech
- Judy M Lau — Stanford University
- Charles R Lawrence — JPL
- Hamdi Mani — Caltech
- Miroslav Micovic — HRL Laboratories LLC
- Mo Missous — University of Manchester
- Matthew A Morgan — National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Robert Navarro — JPL
- Ian J O'Dwyer — JPL
- John C Pearson — JPL
- Timothy J Pearson — Caltech
- Misha Z Pesenson — Caltech
- Marian W Pospieszalski — National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Anthony C Readhead — Caltech
- Rodrigo A Reeves — Caltech
- Steven C Reising — Colorado State University
- Joseph L Richards — Caltech
- Christopher Ruf — University of Michigan
- Damon S Russell — JPL
- Lorene A. Samoska — JPL
- Virendra Sarohia — JPL
- Michael J Schwartz — JPL
- Michael Seiffert — JPL
- Bob Stachnik — JPL
- Sandy Weinreb — Caltech
- Michael W Werner — JPL
- Dan J. Werthimer — University of California, Berkeley
- Peter N Wilkinson — University of Manchester
- Dong L Wu — JPL
- Ghassan Yassin — Oxford University
- Jonas Zmuidzinas — Caltech
Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
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| Tony Readhead | Caltech | Overview of Study Program (.pdf) (video) |
| Charles Lawrence | JPL | Overview of Study Program (.pdf) (video) |
| Mark Allen | JPL | High Spectral Resolution Systems for Solar System Exploration at Frequencies up to 600 GHz (.pdf) (video) |
| Clive Dickinson | IPAC | Measuring foregrounds for future CMB experiments (.pdf) |
| Sarah Church | Stanford University | Measurements of the CMB and other continuum signals with coherent arrays (.pdf) (video) |
| Paul Goldsmith | JPL | Astronomical spectroscopy at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths (.pdf) (video) |
| Bjorn Lambrigtsen | JPL | Earth Remote Sensing Applications with Microwave Array Spectrometers (.pdf) (video) |
| Andrew Lange | Caltech | Bolometric vs. MMIC arrays for CMB Science (.pdf) (video) |
| Jonas Zmuidzinas | Caltech | Fundamental sensitivity limits for coherent and direct detection (.pdf) (video) |
| Patty Chang-Chien | Northrop Grumman | 3D Integration Using Wafer-level Packaging (.pdf) |
| Miro Micovic | HRL Labs | High power W-band GaN MMICs (.pdf) |
| Mo Missous | University of Manchester | Metal-semiconductor interfaces: towards quantum limited MMIC performances at sub-millimeter wave frequencies (.pdf) |
| Marian Pospieszalski | NRAO | What we know and do not know about cryogenic HEMT’s (.pdf) |
| Peter Wilkinson | University of Manchester | European R&D on multi-purpose cameras: the APRICOT programme (.pdf) |
| Todd Gaier | JPL | MMIC Technology Prospects for Large Arrays (.pdf) |
| Chris Groppi | University of Arizona | Supercam: A 64-Beam Heterodyne Array for the 870-micron Atmospheric Window (.pdf) |
| Danielle Kettle | University of Manchester | Ka-Band MMIC Radiometer: experiences and future in Radio Astronomy (.pdf) |
| Richard Lai | Northrop Grumman | Recent NGST HEMT Device & MMIC Development (.pdf) |
| Matt Morgan | NRAO | NRAO MMIC-Based Receiver Developments for the Next Decade of Radio Astronomy (.pdf) |
| Sandy Weinreb | Caltech | Prospects in Semiconductors for Focal Plane Arrays (.pdf) |
| Neal Erickson | slides via | MMIC Receiver Systems Developed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (.pdf) |
| Keith Grainge | Technological Requirements for a next generation SZ Imager (.pdf) |
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| Mike Seiffert | JPL | Primordial Inflation Telescope (PILOT) – a MMIC based polarimeter mission concept for measuring Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (.pdf) |
| Ghassan Yassin | University of Oxford | Novel Technology for Ultra-Sensitive Cosmology Instruments (.pdf) |
| Larry D'Addario | JPL | Overview of Digital Signal Processing for Imaging and Spectroscopy (.pdf) |
| Dave Hawkins | Caltech | FPGA Interfacing and Signal Processing (.pdf) |
| Chris Ruf | University of Michigan | Digital Correlators for Spaceborne Earth Remote Sensing: Current Status and Near Term Technology Development (.pdf) |
| Dan Werthimer | UC Berkeley | CASPER Collaboration for Digital Backends (.pdf) |
