Lin Chin-shen smiles after seeing AMiBA up and running, saying that most of the local-oscillator and amplifier chips that NTU's Department of Electrical Engineering has previously designed have gone into things like traditional electronic devices and wireless network receivers. "It never occurred to me that they could be fully integrated into an astronomical telescope," he says.
看完 AMiBA 的裝置及實際運作，林晉申笑說，以前電機系所製作的混波器、放大器等電路晶片，多半是放在傳統電機設備、無線網路收發系統等，「沒有想到也可以和天文望遠鏡形成完美結合。」