A Stable Floating Non-Foster Circuit

Non-Foster elements have attracted considerable interest because of their role in enabling wide-band electrically small antennas and metamaterials. However, the potential instability of these elements continues to be an going challenge to their realization and, hence, practical acceptance. In this paper, we present a stable floating negative impedance converter (NIC) element using a RLC (resistor-inductor-capacitor) based subcircuit as the load.

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