Krüger, Petrus Paulus2014-01-172014-01-172012Krüger, P.P. 2012. Cheap 0.36 dB broadband multipath LNA. Electronics letters, 48(6):315-317. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6171019&tag=1]0013-51941350-911Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/9960http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6171019&tag=1A two-path low-noise amplifier (LNA) designed for the planned MeerKAT radio telescope is presented. The LNA has a noise figure (NF) of less than 0.36 dB and input return loss of less than 12 dB from 0.7 to 1.8 GHz. It consumes 100 mW of power and costs about $10 to manufacture.enLow noise amplifiersradiotelescopeswideband amplifiersArticle