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  • Electrical Engineering
  • Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering

Background:

  • Receiver arrays require effective matching between coils and preamplifiers.
  • Conventional methods often involve compensating preamplifier input impedance reactance, adding complexity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present novel direct matching methods for coils and preamplifiers in receiver arrays.
  • To improve decoupling and noise-matching performance while simplifying the system.

Main Methods:

  • Developed direct matching by using coil reactance to resonate with matching networks, achieving coil decoupling.
  • Integrated coil and preamplifier matching networks for direct coil-to-transistor matching.
  • Implemented and compared these methods against a conventional approach using custom components.

Main Results:

  • The novel direct matching methods eliminated the need for phase shifting networks.
  • Fewer components were utilized in the proposed matching networks.
  • Lower noise factors were observed with the new methods.
  • Similar preamplifier-decoupling performance was achieved across all tested configurations.

Conclusions:

  • Direct matching offers a simplified and effective approach for receiver array design.
  • The proposed methods provide a lower noise factor solution compared to conventional techniques.
  • System complexity is reduced without sacrificing essential performance metrics like decoupling.