Design of Impedance Matching Network for Low-Power, Ultra-Wideband Applications
This paper addresses the design of ultra-wideband (UWB) impedance matching networks operating in the unlicensed 3.1–10.6 GHz frequency band for low-power applications. It improves the simplified real frequency technique (SRFT) by adding a realizability check and employing an iterative approach with...
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| description | This paper addresses the design of ultra-wideband (UWB) impedance matching networks operating in the unlicensed 3.1–10.6 GHz frequency band for low-power applications. It improves the simplified real frequency technique (SRFT) by adding a realizability check and employing an iterative approach with different initial guesses in optimization to achieve realizable solutions under the requirements of UWB, low-power consumption, and a minimum number of circuit components. The comparison of solutions obtained using the SRFT with published solutions based on the Chebyshev filter theory is presented. It is shown that the optimal SRFT solution requires fewer components in the impedance matching network, maximizes the RF power delivery over the UWB spectrum with a reflection coefficient below −10 dB, and allows for circuit optimization to reduce power consumption. Using the improved SRFT, it demonstrates a systematic approach to find the strategies and limitations of designing the input matching networks for low-power UWB applications using GlobalFoundries 90 nm BiCMOS technology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-758a211b50bf4ef6a495f62bd15531d62024-03-27T13:48:59ZengMDPI AGJournal of Low Power Electronics and Applications2079-92682024-03-011411610.3390/jlpea14010016Design of Impedance Matching Network for Low-Power, Ultra-Wideband ApplicationsSepideh Hassani0Chih-Hung Chen1Natalia K. Nikolova2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, CanadaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, CanadaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, CanadaThis paper addresses the design of ultra-wideband (UWB) impedance matching networks operating in the unlicensed 3.1–10.6 GHz frequency band for low-power applications. It improves the simplified real frequency technique (SRFT) by adding a realizability check and employing an iterative approach with different initial guesses in optimization to achieve realizable solutions under the requirements of UWB, low-power consumption, and a minimum number of circuit components. The comparison of solutions obtained using the SRFT with published solutions based on the Chebyshev filter theory is presented. It is shown that the optimal SRFT solution requires fewer components in the impedance matching network, maximizes the RF power delivery over the UWB spectrum with a reflection coefficient below −10 dB, and allows for circuit optimization to reduce power consumption. Using the improved SRFT, it demonstrates a systematic approach to find the strategies and limitations of designing the input matching networks for low-power UWB applications using GlobalFoundries 90 nm BiCMOS technology.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/14/1/16ultra-wideband (UWB)impedance matching networksimplified real frequency technique |
| spellingShingle | Sepideh Hassani Chih-Hung Chen Natalia K. Nikolova Design of Impedance Matching Network for Low-Power, Ultra-Wideband Applications Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications ultra-wideband (UWB) impedance matching network simplified real frequency technique |
| title | Design of Impedance Matching Network for Low-Power, Ultra-Wideband Applications |
| title_full | Design of Impedance Matching Network for Low-Power, Ultra-Wideband Applications |
| title_fullStr | Design of Impedance Matching Network for Low-Power, Ultra-Wideband Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of Impedance Matching Network for Low-Power, Ultra-Wideband Applications |
| title_short | Design of Impedance Matching Network for Low-Power, Ultra-Wideband Applications |
| title_sort | design of impedance matching network for low power ultra wideband applications |
| topic | ultra-wideband (UWB) impedance matching network simplified real frequency technique |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/14/1/16 |
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