On the Functional Relation Between Quality Factor and Fractional Bandwidth

DOI10.1109/TAP.2015.2414472MaRDI QIDQ4586888zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miloslav Capek, Lukas Jelinek, Pavel Hazdra

Publication date 30 October 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5821

Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50)

Abstract: The functional relation between the fractional band-width and the quality factor of a radiating system is investigated in this note. Several widely used definitions of the quality factor are compared on two examples of RLC circuits that serve as a simplified model of a single resonant antenna tuned to its resonance. It is demonstrated that for a first-order system, only the quality factor based on differentiation of input impedance has unique proportionality to the fractional bandwidth, whereas e.g. the classical definition of the quality factor, i. e. the ratio of the stored energy to the lost energy per one cycle, is not uniquely proportional to the fractional bandwidth. In addition, it is shown that for higher-order systems the quality factor based on differentiation of the input impedance ceases to be uniquely related to the fractional bandwidth.

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