Negative Impedance Converter IC for Non-Foster Matching

An Current Source Using a Negative Impedance Converter (nic) for Electrical Impedance Tomography (eit)

The purpose of this paper is to improve the output impedance of a current source used for Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) by using a Negative Impedance Converter (NIC). A Monopolar Howland Current Source(MHCS) and NIC circuits were implemented and then the output impedance was measured by a Data Acquisition (DAC) board of 12 bits resolution. A resistive load was used for investigating the...

Matching of IC Patterns under Non-Uniform Illumination

The use of hierarchical Chamfer Matching (CM) to match die patterns on VLSI wafers for the alignment of semiconductor chips is presented. This method can extract images with non-umform lighting (without loss) for matching, and somehow it is invariant to some environment changes. Here, it is applied to align IC patterns under non-uniform lighting while the normalized correlation method fails. Ex...

Impedance Matching Why Impedance Match ?

Also, the power-handling capacity of a transmission line is maximum when it is "flat", i.e., operating at low SWR. Lastly, it is important to be able to interconnect a number of different components into a system, and the only way that can be done reliably and predictably is by constraining the reflection coefficients of the various interfaces through impedance matching. Multiple reflections ca...

System Analysis of a Negative Impedance Converter Receiver for Ultra Low Frequencies

Monitoring electromagnetic waves in the Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) range between 1 mHz and 1 Hz is essential for an understanding of the processes in the earths magnetosphere. Also earthquake prone areas are under suspect to emit precursor ULF signals. We discuss a receiving system using a solenoid sensor and Negative Impedance Converter (NIC) as front end. The NIC effectively extends the freque...

An Automatic Real Time Impedance Matching System for Use in an RF Electrostatics Accelerator Ion Source