Impedance matching is an essential part of antenna design. The input impedance of an antenna needs to be reasonably close to the amplifier impedance (e.g. 50 Ohm), otherwise the signal is reflected back to the amplifier and not radiated by the antenna. In many applications matching circuits consisting of discrete inductors and capacitors, or transmission lines are used to improve the impedance ...

ETRI Journal, Volume 29, Number 5, October 2007 ABSTRACT⎯An ultra-wideband low-noise amplifier is proposed with operation up to 8.2 GHz. The amplifier is fabricated with a 0.18-μm CMOS process and adopts a twostage cascode architecture and a simplified Chebyshev filter for high gain, wide band, input-impedance matching, and low noise. The gain of 19.2 dB and minimum noise figure of 3.3 dB are m...

This paper addresses the requirements of networks containing linear inductors, capacitors and ideal switches for synthesis of zero-order input impedance. Sufficient conditions for achieving zero-order input impedance are stated in terms of the network topology and the switching sequence. Such networks have direct practical relevance to power factor correction (PFC). Based on zero-order switchin...

A new fully differential (FD) low input impedance CMOS current buffer with low voltage, and low power operation is presented. The low input impedance is achieved by remarkable reduction of the input node voltage swing using a novel double feedback scheme. Some advantages of the proposed double feedback scheme over the conventional (either positive or negative) feedback techniques are: lower inp...

It was shown by numerous authors that the characterization of RFID (radio-frequency identification) transponder antennas that are favored to be small, have low gain, and show a strongly reactive input impedance, is far from trivial. We propose a method that utilizes a small, highly-stable, battery-driven signal source to generate the transmit signal directly at the antenna. The signal source is...

In this paper, a low-power adaptive low noise amplifier (LNA) is presented. The LNA is based on a bipolar cascode topology, uses inductive source degeneration and emitter area scaling to achieve noise and input-impedance matching simultaneously. The input impedance and the noise factor were simulated as function of the bias collector current and the results show that both are approximately cons...