Determination of the impedance matching domain of passive LC ladder networks: Theory and implementation

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 333, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 141-155

  Sun, Yichuang ^a   Fidler, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PASSIVE NETWORKS; TUNING; Z TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTER AIDED DOMAIN PLOTTING; IMPEDANCE MATCHING DOMAIN; INVERSION IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATIONS; PASSIVE LC LADDER NETWORKS; TUNABLE MATCHING NETWORKS;

LADDER NETWORKS;

EID: 0030100357     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(96)00023-3     Document Type: Article

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