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Lecture Impedance and Admittance On Smith Charts

The document discusses impedance and admittance coordinates on a Smith chart. It explains that a Smith chart can be used to represent either impedance or admittance and how to convert between the two representations. Specifically, it provides steps to convert an impedance point on the chart to its corresponding admittance by drawing a circle through the point and extending a line through the center of the chart to the other side. Two examples applying this process are shown.

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Lecture Impedance and Admittance On Smith Charts

The document discusses impedance and admittance coordinates on a Smith chart. It explains that a Smith chart can be used to represent either impedance or admittance and how to convert between the two representations. Specifically, it provides steps to convert an impedance point on the chart to its corresponding admittance by drawing a circle through the point and extending a line through the center of the chart to the other side. Two examples applying this process are shown.

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Electromagnetics:

Microwave Engineering

Impedance & Admittance


on Smith Charts
Admittance Coordinates

We could have derived the Smith


chart in terms of admittance.

You can make an admittance


Smith Chart by rotating the
standard Smith chart by 180.

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Impedance/Admittance Conversion
The Smith chart is just a plot of complex numbers. These could be admittance as well as
impedance.

To determine admittance from impedance (or the other way around)…

1. Plot the impedance point on the Smith chart.


2. Draw a circle centered on the Smith chart that passes through the point (i.e. constant VSWR).
3. Draw a line from the impedance point, through the center, and to the other side of the circle.
4. The intersection at the other side is the admittance.
impedance admittance

1. 2. 3. 4.

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Visualizing Impedance/Admittance Conversion
1 + 𝑗1

0.5 − 𝑗0.5

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Example 1

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Example #1 – Problem Statement

Convert the normalized impedance 𝑧 = 0.2 + 𝑗0.4 to normalized admittance 𝑦.

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Example #1 – Step 1
Plot the impedance on the chart
𝑧 = 0.2 + 𝑗0.4

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Example #1 – Step 2
Draw a constant VSWR circle
𝑧 = 0.2 + 𝑗0.4

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Example #1 – Step 3
Draw line through center of chart
𝑧 = 0.2 + 𝑗0.4

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Example #1 – Step 4
Read off admittance
𝑧 = 0.2 + 𝑗0.4

𝑦 = 1.0 − 𝑗2.0

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Example 2

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Example #2 – Problem Statement
Convert the normalized impedance 𝑧 = 0.5 − 𝑗0.3 to normalized admittance 𝑦 using the
combined impedance and admittance Smith Chart.

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The Impedance and Admittance Smith Chart
Red lines represent impedance, blue lines
represent admittance

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Example #2 – Step 1
Plot the impedance on the chart
𝑧 = 0.5 − 𝑗0.3

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Example #2 – Step 2
Read off admittance
𝑦 ≈ 1.5 + 𝑗0.9

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