The ever increasing bandwidth in telecom systems require wideband antennas. However, it is known that e.g. patch antennas are typically narrowband resonating structures. Luckily, it is possible to synthesize a broadband frequency matching to an arbitrary impedance using a state-of-the-art synthesis method, namely the real frequency technique. This thesis aims to start from an “arbitrary” frequency response of a resonating patch antenna and to determine, realize and measure a matching network for this antenna. Needless to say is that one therefore needs to perform an in-depth study of the (state-of-the-art) real frequency matching technique.
2022