The Smith Chart is a mapping between reflection coefficient and normalized impedance characterized by a pair of equations: z - 1 Gamma = ----- z + 1 Gamma + 1 z = -------- 1 - Gamma The impedance matching problem is mainly finding the z that having reflection coefficient Gamma = ℜ + jℑ z z z satisfies: 2 2 2 ℜ + ℑ = Gamma z z 1 2 2 1 ( ℜ - - ) + ℑ = - z 2 z 4 Using some algebra it is easy to find out 2 ℜ = Gamma z , _____________ _ | 2 4 ℑ = \|Gamma - Gamma z . Now, we already know that the real component of z is 1 . Then the imaginary part of the two matching impedance would be: 2ℑ z +/- ----------------- 2 2 ℜ - 2ℜ + ℑ + 1 z z z