Mahmut Keser

Work place: R&D Dept. of Sekiza Defence and Aerospace Ind., Ankara, Turkey

E-mail: kmahmut@sekiza.com

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Research Interests: Computational Science and Engineering, Engineering

Biography

Mahmut Keser received his B.Sc. degree at Electronics Engineering from Gebze Institute of Technology in 2010. He received his M.Sc. degree at Electronics Engineering from the same university in 2019. He worked in EMC Electronics and NETAS Telecommunication for 8 years as EMC, hardware support and RF hardware design engineer. He is currently working for Sekiza Defense & Aerospace Ind. as an RF/Hardware Design Engineer.

Author Articles
Analysis, Design and Realization of Negative Impedance Converter Circuit with Current Feedback Operational Amplifier

By Sami Durukan Asim Egemen Yilmaz Mahmut Keser

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2022.02.01, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2022

Negative impedance converter (NIC) circuits are very interesting and beneficial building blocks with the capability of generating negative resistance, capacitance and/or inductance elements which do not exist as a singular electrical component in practice. They are commonly used for the impedance matching and parasitic element cancellation in electrically small antennas and amplifier circuits. In this study, a special kind of NIC circuit in HF band up to 30 MHz is analysed, designed and physically realised with a current feedback (CFB) operational amplifier (OPAMP) which is the core active element of the NIC circuit. The non-inverting terminal of CFB OPAMP is used for RF input signal with the elimination of DC offset voltage in the proposed NIC circuit. The negative impedance conversion capability of the circuit is theoretically proved and simulated first. This capability of CFB OPAMP to generate negative impedance is very important in high-frequency applications as they have low distortion and faster switching than that of voltage feedback (VFB) OPAMP. For the physical realizations, printed circuit board (PCB) is designed and manufactured on FR-4 dielectric material. Measurement results obtained from the realized circuit with resistive (100Ω) and capacitive (10pF) loads to be converted negatively showed that the negative impedance conversion performance of the circuit is very close to its theoretical behaviour in the lower HF frequencies generally in 3- 20 MHz band.

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