Negative impedance converters for broadband antenna matching

Oluwabunmi Tade, Peter Gardner, Peter Hall

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Abstract

The need for small antennas with wide instantaneous bandwidth is well established in mobile Cognitive radio nodes or transceivers. The fundamental limit of small antennas is a problem which passive matching cannot solve. However, non-Foster matching provides a means of getting around this problem. In this paper, we show a negative impedance converter that provides a negative capacitor up to 1.5GHz and we show how it can be used to match a small chassis antenna. This improves the instantaneous bandwidth of the antenna beyond what is achievable with passive matching.
Original languageEnglish
Pages613-616
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2012
EventEuropean Microwave Conference - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 29 Oct 20121 Nov 2012

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Microwave Conference
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period29/10/121/11/12

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