Non-foster impedance matching of electrically-small antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2230-2241

  Sussman Fort, Stephen E ^a,b   Rudish, Ronald M ^a  

^a ITT   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active antennas; Electrically small antennas; Impedance matching; Negative resistance circuits

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ANTENNAS; ANTENNA RANGE; AVERAGE SIGNAL POWER; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; GAIN BANDWIDTH; IMPEDANCE MATCHING; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; IMPEDANCE MISMATCH; NARROW BANDWIDTH; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE CIRCUITS; POWER EFFICIENCY; RADIATION RESISTANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SMALL ANTENNA;

ACTIVE NETWORKS; BANDWIDTH; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 68949213038     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2024494     Document Type: Review

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