A close - up of a crucial component of an ALMA Warm Cartridge Assembly, a custom power amplifier chip designed by NRAO engineers and fabricated by BAE Systems of Nashua, New Hampshire, using a process that enables such amplifiers to work at frequencies above the normal 100
gigahertz limit of commercially available devices of this type.
«At frequencies below two
gigahertz, conventional microwaves absorbers are
limited in application by their thickness and narrow absorption bandwidth.