Even in these days, when news travels instantly and there are few secrets, it’s possible to miss an important or interesting story. That’s what happened to me recently: I was doing some online ...

An indispensible tool for solving transmission line and waveguide problems, the Smith chart was invented in 1939 by Phillip H. Smith as a graph-based method of simplifying the complex math (that is, ...

Upon initial look, the Smith chart appears to be quite complicated. Although the basis for the chart is deeply rooted in complex variable theory, you do not have to be a graduate-level mathematician ...