Impedance matching without Smith Chart

The Smith Chart is a mapping between reflection coefficient and normalized impedance characterized by a pair of equations:

Γ = z - 1 z + 1
z = Γ + 1 1 - Γ

The impedance matching problem is mainly finding the z that having reflection coefficient Γ z = ℜ z + j ℑ z satisfies:

ℜ z 2 + ℑ z 2 = Γ 2 ( ℜ z - 1 2 ) 2 + ℑ z 2 = 1 4

Using some algebra it is easy to find out ℜ z = Γ 2 , ℑ z = Γ 2 - Γ 4 . Now, we already know that the real component of z is 1 . Then the imaginary part of the two matching impedance would be:

± 2 ℑ z ℜ z 2 - 2 ℜ z + ℑ z 2 + 1