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Negar Ehsan

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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SMAP L-band microwave radiometer: Instrument design and first year on orbit

…, KA Horgan, J Knuble, N Ehsan… - … on Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) L-band microwave radiometer is a conical
scanning instrument designed to measure soil moisture with 4% volumetric accuracy at 40-km …

Micro-fabricated 130–180 GHz frequency scanning waveguide arrays

…, KJ Vanhille, EN Grossman, N Ehsan… - … on Antennas and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes frequency scanning slot arrays operating from 130 to 180 GHz. The
arrays are micro-fabricated using the PolyStrata sequential copper deposition process. …

Broadband micro-coaxial Wilkinson dividers

N Ehsan, K Vanhille, S Rondineau… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents several micro-coaxial broadband 2 : 1 Wilkinson power dividers operating
from 2 to 22 GHz, a 11 : 1 bandwidth. Circuits are fabricated on silicon with PolyStrata …

Micro-coaxial impedance transformers

N Ehsan, KJ Vanhille, S Rondineau… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates two broadband air-filled micro-coaxial 4:1 (2-24 GHz) and 2.25:1 (2-22
GHz) impedance transformers. The 4:1 transformer converts 50 to 12.5 Ω and the 2.25:1 …

Micro-coaxial lines for active hybrid-monolithic circuits

N Ehsan, E Cullens, K Vanhille, D Frey… - 2009 IEEE MTT-S …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses fundamental properties of rectangular micro-coaxial lines fabricated in
the PolyStratatrade process for broadband applications from 2-20 GHz. The possible …

Experiment for cryogenic large-aperture intensity mapping: instrument design

…, C Cho, JA Connors, N Ehsan… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The experiment for cryogenic large-aperture intensity mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne
telescope designed to survey star formation in windows from the present to z = 3.5. During …

Second-generation Micro-Spec: A compact spectrometer for far-infrared and submillimeter space missions

G Cataldo, EM Barrentine, BT Bulcha, N Ehsan… - Acta Astronautica, 2019 - Elsevier
Micro-Spec is a direct-detection spectrometer which integrates all the components of a
diffraction-grating spectrometer onto a ≈ 10 -cm 2 chip through the use of superconducting …

G-band frequency-scanned antenna arrays

L Ranzani, N Ehsan, Z Popoviać - 2010 IEEE Antennas and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Beam steering antenna arrays have many applications, from object tracking and localization
to landing systems [1]. The main requirements for such a system are usually a wide …

Miniature 3D micro-machined solid state power amplifiers

…, D Filipovic, E Cullens, N Ehsan… - 2008 IEEE …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, a rectangular coaxial transmission line based power amplifier is discussed. This
transmission line is created by sequential photolithography and plating processes, resulting …

µ-spec spectrometers for the EXCLAIM instrument

…, G Cataldo, JA Connors, N Ehsan… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a cryogenic
balloon-borne instrument that will map carbon monoxide and singly-ionized carbon emission …