An automatic antenna tuning system using only RF signal amplitudes

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 833-837

  Firrao, E L ^a,b   Annema, Anna Johan ^a   Nauta, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Antenna tuning; High efficiency power amplifiers PAs); Impedance matching; Wireless communication systems

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MOBILE ANTENNAS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

ANTENNA TUNING; AUTOMATIC ANTENNA TUNERS; DEMONSTRATOR SYSTEMS; HIGH EFFICIENCY POWER AMPLIFIERS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; STANDING-WAVE RATIO; VOLTAGE STANDING-WAVE RATIO; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

TUNING;

EID: 51649084724     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2008.925652     Document Type: Article

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