Electronic Applications of the Smith Chart

Preface 

Biography 

Contents 

Introduction 

1. Guided Wave Propagation 

2. Waveguide Electrical Parameters 

3. Smith Chart Construction 

4. Losses and Voltage-Current Representations 

5. Waveguide Phase Representations 

6. Equivalent Circuit Representations of Impedance and Admittance 

7. Expanded Smith Chart 

8. Waveguide Transmission Coefficient 

9. Waveguide Impedance and Admittance Matching 

10. Network Impedance Transformations 

11. Measurements of Standing Waves 

12. Negative Smith Chart 

13. Special Uses of the Smith Chart 

14. Smith Chart Instruments 

15. winSMITH Operation 

Glossary 

Appendix 

Symbols 

References 

Bibliography

About the author

Phillip H. Smith, 1905-1987. Phillip Smith earned his BSEE degree at Tufts College, majoring in electrical communications. He worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1928 to 1970. He is the creator of the Smith Chart for use in solving transmission line problems and this was put into use at the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory and other sites. 

He holds 20 U.S. patents in the microwave filed, including the basic patent on the transmission line matching stub the Cloverleaf Antenna, and the optimum power ratio coaxial transmission line. Mr. Smith also worked with the Signal Corps laboratories on radar. Later, he worked on early microwave radar antenna developments for submarine use under W.H. Doherty. Phil was active in the IRE and later the IEEE from 1947 on.