This article presents a new methodology based on active band pass filter. In the proposed design, a resonator consists of an active negative capacitor together with a conventional inductor represented. The active negative capacitor is made of a field-effect transistor that exhibits negative capacitance and negative resistance. It can, therefore, compensate the loss of an inductor. Two pole active bandpass filter centered 1.3 GHz, with 3 dB bandwidth of 640 MHz, high gain 1.5 dB, including a very low-noise active filter which exhibits a noise figure of 2.5 dB are realized in the fist part. Compared with the conventional BPF, the proposed design shows better gain, noise figure, and the return loss level. Figure 6 With active negative capacitor (C 1 ϭ 5 pF, C 2 ϭ Variable, R 11 ϭ 5 ⍀, L 11 ϭ 4.5 nH, R 22 ϭ 50 ⍀, L 22 ϭ 8 nH) (a) S 11 parameter (b) S 22 parameter (c) S 21 parameter-Type-I. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at www.interscience.wiley.com]
ABSTRACT: A single-layer dual-fed suspended plate antenna (SPA) with a notched radiator and broad lateral width is presented for high gain and broad coverage applications. Both the impedance and gainbandwidths of the proposed antenna are increased by extending the radiation aperture, while the occurrence of high-order modes is suppressed by using a dual-feed structure and notching the edges of the radiator. For comparison, the performances of four other types of SPAs are also investigated numerically and verified experimentally. Given the information on the merits and weaknesses of these SPAs, antenna engineers can opt for the appropriate antenna with the desirable performance for their specific applications.