Millimeter-Wave Reduced-Size Wilkinson Power Divider

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The letter reports the analysis of the reduced-size planar microstrip Wilkinson power divider which uses miniaturized microstrip line instead of conventional quarter wavelength transmission line. The full design formulae of the miniaturized Wilkinson power divider with arbitrary power ratio is first proposed.3dB one-stage and two-stage miniaturized Wilkinson power divider are designed according to the formulae. The ADS EM simulation results of the one-stage miniaturized Wilkinson power divider when the smaller electrical angle is 45 degrees show its reflection coefficient<-20dB,isolation>20dB and the transmission loss<0.4dB in the bandwidth of 28.9-34.9GHz,for the two-stage reduced-size Wilkinson power divider its reflection coefficient <-20dB,isolation>20dB and the transmission loss<0.4dB in the bandwidth of 26-37.5GHz.This kind of miniaturized Wilkinson power divider has a very compact size as well as good match and isolation.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 998-999)

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626-630

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July 2014

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