Problem

Set 4 Solutions

ECE 357

Winter 2015

1. The input impedance of a short-circuited lossy transmission line of length 1.5 m (< /2) and a
characteristic impedance of 100 (approximately real) is 40 - j280 .

a) Find and of the line.

b) Determine the input impedance if the short-circuit is replaced by a load resistance ZL = 50 +

c) Find the input impedance of the short-circuited line for a line length of 0.15.

Solution:

2. A lossless transmission line with a characteristic impedance of 50 is terminated in a load
impedance 40 + j30 . Using Smith Chart techniques, determine:

a) The reflection coefficient (magnitude and phase), and the VSWR

b) The input impedance seen looking into the line if it is 0.2 long.

c) The length of line needed to make the input impedance look real (one solution is sufficient),
and the associated resistance value.

Solution:

3. Match a load impedance ZL = 100 + j80 to a line with characteristic impedance Z0 = 75 using
a shunt single-stub tuner. Find one solution using an open-circuited stub and another using a
short-circuited stub.

Solution:

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4. Design a quarter-wave transformer is to match a 10 resistor to a 50 line at 2 GHz. The
transmission line used is coaxial cable whose dielectric has a dielectric constant r = 2.25. Sketch
the final design, specifying the dimensions and impedance of the transformer.

Solution:

5. A shunt single stub tuner is used to match a load impedance to a 50 transmission line at 1
GHz. The load consists of a series circuit composed of a 25 resistor and a 4 nH inductor.

a) Find the required length and position, in wavelengths, of a short-circuited stub made from a
section of the same 50 line.

b) Repeat (a) assuming that the short-circuited stub is made of a section of a line that has a
characteristic impedance of 75 .

c) Calculate the lengths and positions in parts b and c if a transmission line with a phase velocity
of 2 108 m/s is used to for the tuner.

Solution:

6. Cheng P.9-43.

7. Determine the parameters of the matching network shown in the figure below, to transform a
load impedance ZL=150+j50 Ohms into an input impedance Zin=20-j100 Ohms. The transmission-
lines of the network have a characteristic impedance Z0 =50 Ohms.

Is it possible to perform this matching by connecting the open stub at A-A?

A d

ZL=150+j50
L

Zin=20-j100 A

Solution (7):


8. On the Smith chart, show the normalized impedances zL that you can match to a 100 Ohm input
impedance, using the matching network of Fig. 1b at 50 MHz. Extract the corresponding range
of values for RL and XL. The transmission-line segment shown has a characteristic impedance of
50 Ohms, p = 3 10 8 m / sec and the available length you can use is up to 1.5m.

Let the input impedance seen looking into the line without the series capacitor be zin. The point zin
lies at 2 + j3.2, since the capacitor produces j3.2 units of normalized reactance at 50 MHz. The
wavelength is 3e8 m/s / 50 MHz = 6m, so a 1.5m length of line is one quarter-wavelength (half-
revolution around the Smith Chart). Moving towards the load up to 0.25 wavelengths, we see the
range of match-able load impedances zL shown by the dark think line.