{"title":"Negative impedance converters for broadband antenna matching","authors":"O. Tade, P. Gardner, P. Hall","doi":"10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459295","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":266910,"journal":{"name":"2012 42nd European Microwave Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 42nd European Microwave Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.23919/EUMC.2012.6459295","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.