D1  Submillimeter-Wave/ Terahertz Circuits and Applications

Wednesday, January 9  13:20-16:00  Room 1B51

Session Chairs:  Negar Ehsan, Berhanu Bulcha, Jonathan Chisum

13:20  D1-1  SWIRP: COMPACT SUBMM-WAVE AND LWIR POLARIMETERS FOR CIRRUS ICE PROPERTIES

Dong L. Wu*1, Manuel Vega1, William R. Deal2, William Gaines2, Caitlyn M. Cooke2, Russell Chipman3, Kira Hart3, Ping Yang4

1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
2Aerospace Systems, Northrop Grumman Corp, Redondo Beach, CA
3College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
4Dept. of Atmos. Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX


13:40  D1-2  220 GHZ AND 680 GHZ DIRECT DETECTION POLARIMETRIC RECEIVERS FOR CLOUD ICE MEASUREMENTS

Caitlyn M. Cooke*1, Kevin M. K. H. Leong1, Xiao Bing Mei1, Jennifer Arroyo2, Manuel A. Vega3, Dong L. Wu3, William R. Deal1

1Northrop Grumman Corporation, Redondo Beach, CA
2Nuvotronics Inc., Durham, NC
3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD


14:00  D1-3  A COMPACT 670-GHZ POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER FOR CUBESAT CLOUD ICE OBSERVATIONS

Eric Bryerton*, Theodore Reck, Daniel Koller, Yiwei Duan, Jeffrey Hesler

Virginia Diodes, Inc., Charlottesville


14:20  D1-4  SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE SCHOTTKY DIODES BASED ON HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION OF GAAS ONTO SILICON

Robert M. Weikle*, Linli Xie, Souheil Nadri, Masoud Jafari, Christopher M. Moore, Naser Alijabbari, Michael E. Cyberey, N S. Barker, Arthur W. Lichtenberger

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA


14:40  D1-5  BROADBAND ULTRA-COMPACT HIGH-POWER ARRAY LOCAL OSCILLATOR SOURCES FOR HIGH-SPECTRAL RESOLUTION SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE RECEIVERS

Jose V. Siles*, Jonathan H. Kawamura, Imran Mehdi

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena


15:20  D1-6  (Invited) PICTURE THIS SELFI: A TECHNOLOGY MATURATION PROJECT FOR A SUBMILLIMETER ENCELADUS LIFE FUNDAMENTALS INSTRUMENT (SELFI)

Paul Racette*1, Carrie Anderson1, Damon Bradley1, Gordon Chin1, Negar Ehsan1, Terry Hurford1, Tilak Hewagamal2, Tracee Jamison1, Tim Livengood2

1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
2University of Maryland, College Park, MD


15:40  D1-7  ?-SPEC: AN INTEGRATED SPECTROMETER FOR THZ SPECTROSCOPY

Emily M. Barrentine*1, Ari D. Brown1, Berhanu T. Bulcha1, Giuseppe Cataldo1, Negar Ehsan1, Larry Hess1, Omid Noroozian1,2, Thomas R. Stevenson1, Eric R. Switzer1, Kongpop U-Yen1, Edward J. Wollack1, S. H. Moseley1

1NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
2National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA