Non-Foster Impedance Matching of Electrically-Small Antennas
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...Most Non-Foster impedance matching for electrically small antennas have been implemented with a series or a shunt negative capacitor [5]- [ 7 ]....
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...With a high-Q antenna impedance, such matching is difficult to perform because of the realizability constraints imposed by the gain-bandwidth theory of Bode, Fano, and Youla [9]–[11]....
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...Chu [2] and Harrington [3], using spherical mode theory, defined electrical length as the radius of a circumscribing sphere....
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...In 1947, Wheeler [1], looking at an antenna in terms...
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...Wheeler used power factor rather than its reciprocal—the quality factor or Q—because one can simply add the power factors associated with radiation, antenna loss and matching network loss to obtain an overall power factor....
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...From this, Wheeler concluded that the antenna radiation power factor decreases with the third power of electrical length....
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...Wheeler defined electrical length as the axial length of a cylinder that circumscribes the antenna....
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...In 1947, Wheeler [1], looking at an antenna in terms Manuscript received October 13, 2008; revised March 09, 2009....
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