Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2014
Session Number:TH2A
Session:
Number:TH2A_02
Noise Investigation of an Active Non-Foster Matching Network for Small Antennas
Christian Stedler, Volker Wienstroer, Rainer Kronberger,
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Publication Date:2014/12/2
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Matching networks with Non-Foster elements seem to be useful for the matching of small antennas. This paper presents the advantages and disadvantages of such a non-Foster matching network with active elements. Therefore a comparison with a conventional matching network regarding signal performance only and in addition regarding signal-to noise (SNR) performance for automotive application in the FM frequency range is made. In contrast to other publications a severe SNR disadvantage of the non-Foster network results.