Impedance matching is one of the perpetual confusions for new electronics students, and for good reason: the idea that increasing the impedance of a circuit ... to read a Smith chart, an ...

One comment in particular, from Dan Bullard, caught my attention: “One of my interview questions is, what does a quartz crystal look like on a Smith chart? That throws most people.” The question is ...

What you’ll learn: Plot complex impedances on a Smith ... matching circuit to be created. Most RF impedances are typically 50 Ω. This value is assigned to the center of the chart where R ...

The Smith chart appeared in 1939 (Ref. 1) as a graph-based method of simplifying the complex math (that is, calculations involving variables of the form x + jy) needed to describe the characteristics ...

One of the better tools available to the broadcast engineer for troubleshooting SWR issues is the Smith chart invented by Phillip Hagar Smith ... For instance, one model of 10 kW transmitter would ...