Authors: Katarzyna Jagodzińska
Source: FERMAT, Volume 13, Communication 14, Nov.-Dec., 2016
Abstract: This paper deals with extending bandwidth of electrically small antenna using negative impedance converter that acts as a negative reactance.
Using the idea of negative impedance converter an active reactance circuit is proposed to cancel the imaginary part of electrically small antenna impedance and thus matched antenna to the transmitter over a wide band. Furthermore, design and measurement results of active reactance circuit are presented and discussed in details.
Index Terms: electrically small antenna, non-Foster element,negative impedance converter, impedance matching.
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On the extending bandwidth of electrically small antenna using negative impedance converter