Who would have guessed that Pamela Anderson would be wearing
a T-shirt with a Smith Chart on it? Too bad it isn't an RF Cafe T-shirt!
Throughout the years, I have seen quite a few examples of art that depicts Phillip H.
Smith's famous Smith Chart, created by techie types. Its array of circles and semicircles
is attractive even to people who have no idea what it is. To wit, it is hard to
conceive of Pamela Anderson appreciating the gravity of the Smith Chart design on
the front of her T-shirt in this photo. From a purely technical standpoint, there
appears to be a lot of ripple in the response, which being biased toward the upper
half of the chart makes it inductive. Note from my "RF Engineers - We Are the World's
Matchmakers" design (to the right), where the bulk of the "Forbidden Region" areas
lie on the shirt. Hmmm, maybe she does understand the Smith Chart ... but I digress.
After an extensive Internet search using multiple search engines, I was able to
come up with these other examples of Smith Chart Art™. If you know of any
other works (including your own), please send me the information and I will add
them to this page. Here is a good list of Smith Chart resources
here.
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Prof. Aziz Inan of the U. of Portland had his students create
some Smith Chart art on the August 29th, 25th anniversary of Phillip Smith's death.
Smith Chart found on the Deviant Art website by chemb0t (Modern
Alchemist)
Smith Chart on the Kanagawa Art Festival Poster 1984.
This milled wood Smith Chart coaster was sent to me by website
visitor Enrique R, of Norcross, GA.
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£2 coin from the British Royal Mint released in 2001 as
a tribute to Guglielmo Marconi has a Smith Chart on the reverse side.
This Smith Chart was found on MySpace.
Agilent's Educator's Corner
Smith
Chart cartoon.
Smith Chart Sundial for the Columbia College in Columbia, MD,
by Creative Form Liners.
A
Smith Chart tattoo on the arm of Christopher Sanabria.
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Smith Chart found on the Deviant Art website by guiding structures.
Omicron
Labs cartoon.
Smith Chart Mosaic at the entrance of the
Hewlett Packard Labs building in Palo Alto, CA.
Smith
Chart quilt, by Professor Cynthia Furse of the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at University of Utah (formerly at Utah State University).
She has her students sign when they have finished their design projects. See Dr. Furse's
video tutorial series on
the Smith Chart.
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Posted September 20, 2023
(updated from original
post on 12/5/2008)
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