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Significance of S21 plot in Smith chart

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Hi,

What is the significance of plotting S21 in Smith chart? I know that it plots normalized (S21-Z0)/(S21+Z0), what is its significance?

Plotting S11 makes sense because in that case it represents reflection co-efficient and hence it is helpful in matching etc. But why S21?
 

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