A novel design of ultra-wideband strip-line power divider for 2-18 GHz
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICATT.2013.6650765Keywords:
coupled strip-lines, power divider, balanced resistors, amplitude and phase imbalance, even and odd modesAbstract
A new modified ultra-wideband in-phase power divider for frequency band 2-18 GHz has been designed, successfully fabricated and tested. The power divider is based on the coupled strip-lines. Only two balanced resistors are used in the proposed structure. So the power divider has very low insertion loss. The capacitive strips placed over the resistors have been introduced in the suggested design as the novel elements. Due to the introduced capacitive strips the isolation and impedance matching of the divider outputs were improved at the high frequencies.
The manufactured power divider shows very high measured performances (amplitude imbalance is ±0.2 dB, phase imbalance is 5°, insertion loss is 0.4 dB, isolation is -18 dB, VSWR = 1.5.
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