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Impedance Matching and Measurement Techniques. Antennas and Propagation. Impedance Matching. Problem: Measurement systems have fixed impedance usually 50 Ω However most of the antennas have characteristic impedances that can not be adjusted during design - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Antennas and Propagation
Impedance Matching and Measurement Techniques
Impedance MatchingProblem:•Measurement systems have fixed impedance usually 50Ω•However most of the antennas have characteristic impedances that can not be adjusted during design
•Antenna feeds can be unbalanced, balun circuitry is needed to balance them
For maximum power transfer•Reactive components should be eliminated•Active Components Should be equal to 50Ω
Impedance Matching
Input Impedance and Reflection (Г)The reflection coefficient from the Antenna Input is:
Reflected Power from the Antennas is given by
And Transmitted power to the antenna is given by
Return loss can ve evaluated by:
Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR)
Impedance Matching
VSWR Reflection Return loss dB1:1 0.00 infinity1.1:1 0.05 26.441.2:1 0.09 20.831.5:1 0.20 13.981.9:1 0.31 10.162.0:1 0.33 9.543.0:1 0.50 6.024.0:1 0.60 4.445.0:1 0.67 3.526.0:1 0.71 2.9210:1 0.82 1.71infinity:1 1.000 0.00
Impedance MatchingLumped Element Matching
Impedance MatchingLumped Element Matching• Lumped element networks are used to cancel the reactive
component of the load and transform the real part so that the full available power is delivered into the real part of the antenna
• Can be used to match antennas whose resistance is less than that of the transmission line, and whose reactance can be set by shortening the length of the radiating element from the resonant length.
• If the reactance is capacitive, adding a shunt inductor will cancel the reactive part of the antenna admittance and result in a match to the transmission line.
Impedance Matching• We want to match RP to RS and cancel reactances
with a conjugate match.
Impedance Matching
The input impedance is simply RS.
Impedance MatchingDistributed Elements:• Matching with transmission line elements• This method is preferred when;
– at higher frequencies – when parasitics of lumped elements cannot be controlled – when very small capacitors or inductors are required
• Transmission line characteristic impedance
• Transmission line equivalent circuit
Impedance Matching
Impedance Matchinglumped circuit Distributed Circuit
Equivalent Circuit
Impedance MatchingTransmission line matching
Shorted Stub Open Stub
Impedance MatchingTransmission line matchingFor a stub of length λ/8Short Stub:
Inductor
Open Stub:
Capacitor
BALUNBalun: (Balanced-to-unbalanced feed)• Even if the impedance of the antenna
and the transmission line are matched, unbalanced field current distributions of thecoaxial line may cause reflections
• The unequal currents on the dipole’s arms unbalance the antenna and the coaxial feed
• Balun’s are used to balance the currents
BALUNBazooka Balun• A sleeve is added to the coaxial antenna• The sleeve and the outer coaxial line form
another coaxial line with impedance Z’c
• Since it is shorted, its impedance at the antenna terminals is infinite (λ/4)
• Large input impedance suppresses I3
• Does not affect antenna input impedance
• Frequency dependent
BALUN
Folded Balun• A λ/4 coaxial line is added to the feed line
forming a twin-lead transmission line with infinite impedance at antenna side.
• The current I4 is approximately equal to I3 which means a balanced feed
BALUNBroadband baluns• Gradually changing the
transmission line from unbalanced transmission line to balanced one.
• Ferromagnetic transformers can be used at lower freuencies where changing the transmission line type is not practical