Title :
Full conditions for the stability analysis of negative impedance converters
Author :
Jimenez-Martin, Jose Luis ; Gonzalez-Posadas, Vicente ; Parra-Cerrada, Angel ; Blanco-Campo, A. ; Ugarte-Muñoz, Eduardo ; Segovia-Vargas, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Dept. Ing. Audiovisual y Comun., Univ. Politec. de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
Negative impedance converters (NICs) have been proposed as structures that improve the performance of metamaterial circuits and antennas. However, NICs have suffered from stability problems. This paper presents a critical procedure to analyze the stability of NICs.
Keywords :
convertors; metamaterial antennas; NIC stability analysis; metamaterial antennas; metamaterial circuits; negative impedance converter stability analysis; Circuit stability; Impedance; Integrated circuit modeling; Numerical stability; RLC circuits; Stability criteria; NICs; Non-Foster forms; stability;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0918-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0919-7
DOI :
10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206680
