Signal-to-noise ratio performance of a time-varying matching network for pulse-based systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 323-327

  Wang, Xin ^a   Katehi, Linda P B ^b   Peroulis, Dimitrios ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrically small antenna; impedance matching; pulse circuits; signal to noise ratio (SNR); time varying circuits

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; GAUSSIAN PULSE; HIGH QUALITY; IMPEDANCE MATCHING; IMPEDANCE MATCHING TECHNIQUE; MATCHING NETWORKS; MATCHING TECHNIQUES; MONOCYCLE PULSE; NOISE PERFORMANCE; PULSE SIGNAL; REAL TIME; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR); SINGLE CYCLE; SNR DEGRADATION; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME VARYING; TIME-VARYING CIRCUITS;

ANTENNAS; DEGRADATION; DESIGN; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); IMPULSE RESPONSE; LOOP ANTENNAS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PULSE CIRCUITS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

EID: 79951850992     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2090168     Document Type: Article

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