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EE571 Homework 1 Due September 4th

Problem 1
A microstrip line with 25 ohm characteristic impedance is terminated with 50 ohm load impedance.
1) Determine 
2) Determine Return loss
3) Determine Percentage power transmitted
4) Determine Insertion loss
5) Determine SWR
Problem 2
A circuit is operating at 1.9 GHz and a lossless section of a 50 Ohm transmission line is open circuited to construct a
reactance of 25 Ohm. For the following questions, please use Smith Chart to answer the questions.
1) If the phase velocity is 1/3 of the speed of light, what is the shortest possible length of the line to realize this
impedance?
2) If an equivalent capacitive load of 25 Ohm is desired (reactance of -25 Ohm), determine the shortest possible
length based on the same phase velocity.
Problem 3
There is a two port network with finite-length transmission line segments. The two port network with finite-length
transmission line has the following S-parameters (S11, S12, S21, and S22). The transmission line is lossless. Zo1 and
Zo2 are characteristic impedance of the transmission line in input and output respectively. What is the S-parameter of
the two-port network itself ? Please express the S-parameters of the two-port network in terms of S11, S12, S21 and
S22.

a1 S parameter ?
a2

Two Port
Zo1 Zo2
Network

b1 b2

0 0 - l2
- l1

 b1   S11 S12  a1 
     
 b2   S 21 S 22  a 2 
Problem 4
If you know the T-parameters of the device, please express T parameters as a function of known S parameters based
on the definition. Please show every step you did to get this solution.

T11=?, T12=?, T21=?, T22=?

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Problem 5
The matching circuit is operating at 5 GHz. Design T matching network between Zs and ZL to maximize the signal
power transfer between those two impedance. The characteristic impedance of the system is 50 ohm. Please answer
the following questions.
L1 L2

C1
Zs Zs=30+j40 ohm ZL=30+j30 ohm ZL

Please find the value of each inductors and capacitor in the matching circuit using ZY Smith chart.
Use the constant conductance circle of g=0.2 for impedance transform to get unique impedance matching network.
The procedure need to be shown in the ZY Smith chart.

Problem 6
Design a matching circuit at f = 6GHz for maximum signal transfer. For the impedance matching circuit at the input,
please answer the following questions. The characteristic impedance of the system is 50 ohm. The signal source
input impedance is 10+j20 ohm and the input impedance is 25+j25 ohm.

10+j20 ohm d1
50 Ohm
50 Ohm

50 Ohm
d2
50 Ohm
50 Ohm

Short Stub
Z in  25  j 25 ohm

Please find the line length of d1 and d2 using open stub and transmission line for maximum power transfer.
The procedure need to be shown in the ZY Smith chart.

Problem 7
The S parameters of a GaAs FET measured in 50 ohm system at 800 MHz are S11=0.65<-95, S12=0.035<40,
S21=5<115, and S22=0.8<-35. Please answer the following questions.
a) Determine the stability
b) Draw the output stability circle at 800 MHz using Smith Chart.
c) Define the unstable region for the output matching impedance using output stability circle