scholarly journals Compact rat-race ring coupler with meander high-impedance transmission line and port impedance matching

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (8) ◽  
pp. 252-254
Author(s):  
Jun He ◽  
Bing-Zhong Wang
Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 3809
Author(s):  
Mohammed M. Bait-Suwailam ◽  
Isidoro I. Labiano ◽  
Akram Alomainy

In this paper, impedance matching enhancement of a grounded wearable low-profile loop antenna is investigated using a high-impedance surface (HIS) structure. The wearable loop antenna along with the HIS structure is maintained low-profile, making it a suitable candidate for healthcare applications. The paper starts with investigating, both numerically and experimentally, the effects of several textile parameters on the performance of the wearable loop antenna. The application of impedance enhancement of wearable grounded loop antenna with HIS structure is then demonstrated. Numerical full-wave simulations are presented and validated with measured results. Unlike the grounded wearable loop antenna alone with its degraded performance, the wearable loop antenna with HIS structure showed better matching performance improvement at the 2.45 GHz-band. The computed overall far-field properties of the wearable loop antenna with HIS structure shows good performance, with a maximum gain of 6.19 dBi. The effects of bending the wearable loop antenna structure with and without HIS structure as well as when in close proximity to a modeled human arm are also investigated, where good performance was achieved for the case of the wearable antenna with the HIS structure.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Alibakhshikenari ◽  
Bal S. Virdee ◽  
Ayman A. Althuwayb ◽  
Leyre Azpilicueta ◽  
Naser Ojaroudi Parchin ◽  
...  

AbstractThe paper demonstrates an effective technique to significantly enhance the bandwidth and radiation gain of an otherwise narrowband composite right/left-handed transmission-line (CRLH-TL) antenna using a non-Foster impedance matching circuit (NF-IMC) without affecting the antenna’s stability. This is achieved by using the negative reactance of the NF-IMC to counteract the input capacitance of the antenna. Series capacitance of the CRLH-TL unit-cell is created by etching a dielectric spiral slot inside a rectangular microstrip patch that is grounded through a spiraled microstrip inductance. The overall size of the antenna, including the NF-IMC at its lowest operating frequency is 0.335λ0 × 0.137λ0 × 0.003λ0, where λ0 is the free-space wavelength at 1.4 GHz. The performance of the antenna was verified through actual measurements. The stable bandwidth of the antenna for |S11|≤ − 18 dB is greater than 1 GHz (1.4–2.45 GHz), which is significantly wider than the CRLH-TL antenna without the proposed impedance matching circuit. In addition, with the proposed technique the measured radiation gain and efficiency of the antenna are increased on average by 3.2 dBi and 31.5% over the operating frequency band.


Author(s):  
Eugene A. Ogbodo

This chapter proposes the use of asynchronously coupled-resonator junctions (ACJ) in the design of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) filtering network and a masthead combiner (MHC). By employing the resonator junctions, miniaturised circuits are achieved without using any transmission-line-based impedance matching circuits. The main challenge in the designs is the control and implementation of the external couplings at the common ports of this all-resonator-based MIMO filtering network and MHC. Both devices are four ports-based with the MIMO filtering network operating at 1.8, 2.1, and 2.6 GHz, while the MHC operates at the two channels of 1.8 and 2.1 GHz. The demonstrated designs achieved fractional bandwidths of 1.764 GHz to 1.836 GHz, 2.058 GHz to 2.142 GHz, and 2.548 GHz to 2.652 GHz, respectively. Good agreements have been achieved between the measurements of the prototype devices and the simulations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenbin Gu ◽  
Zhenxiong Wang ◽  
Jianghai Chen ◽  
Jianqing Liu ◽  
Ming Lu

As an important parameter in blasting design, charging structure directly influences blasting effect. Due to complex conditions of this blasting and excavating engineering in Jiangsu, China, the authors carried out comparative researches with coupling structure, air-decoupling structure, and water-decoupling structure. After collecting, comparing, and analyzing produced signals on blasting vibration, the authors summarized that when proportional distances are the same, water-decoupling structure can reduce instantaneous energy of blasting vibration more effectively with more average rock fragmentation and less harm of dust. From the perspective of impedance matching, the present paper analyzed influence of charging structure on blasting vibration energy, demonstrating that impedance matching relationship between explosive and rock changes because of different charging structures. Through deducing relationship equation that meets the impedance matching of explosive and rock under different charging structures, the research concludes that when blasting rocks with high impedance, explosive with high impedance can better transmits blasting energy. Besides, when employing decoupling charging, there exists a reasonable decoupling coefficient helping realize impedance matching of explosive and rock.


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