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A Verification Method for Noise-Temperature Measurements on Cryogenic Low-Noise Amplifier

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Dazhen Gu, James P. Randa, Robert L. Billinger, Dave K. Walker

Abstract

We report a verification method for noise-temperature (NT) measurements on cryogenic low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) at liquid helium temperature. The method uses a comparison between the individual measurements of the LNA and an attenuator and the joint measurements of the tandem of the two. As a first step, we were able to determine the loss and the added NT of the cables that connected the cryogenic devices (the LNA, the attenuator, or their combination) to the test ports outside of a cryostat. The attenuator was also characterized successfully with 3% measurement uncertainty.
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IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
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Keywords

Cryogenic amplifier, noise measurement, noise temperature, uncertainty analysis, verification method
Chemical engineering and processing, Chemical thermodynamics and chemical properties and Metrology

Citation

Gu, D. , Randa, J. , Billinger, R. and Walker, D. (2012), A Verification Method for Noise-Temperature Measurements on Cryogenic Low-Noise Amplifier, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/CPEM.2012.6250644 (Accessed October 12, 2025)

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Created December 31, 2012, Updated January 27, 2020
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