A novel compact uniplanar MMIC Wilkinson power divider with ACPS series stubs

Author

Hettak, K. ; Verver, C.J. ; Stubbs, M.G. ; Morin, G.A.

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

59

Abstract

Short-circuit series stubs realized in the signal conductor of an asymmetric coplanar stripline (ACPS) transmission line are investigated as a circuit element in order to achieve a significant size reduction of a MMIC Wilkinson divider. A simple ideal transmission line equivalent circuit is used to model the ACPS line/stub combination yielding good agreement with EM simulation. The stubs are then utilized to shorten the /spl lambda//4 transmission lines by approximately 35% in a Wilkinson divider application at 23 GHz.

Keywords

MMIC; coplanar transmission lines; equivalent circuits; power dividers; strip line components; 23 GHz; EM simulation; asymmetric coplanar stripline transmission line; equivalent circuit; short-circuit series stubs; signal conductor; uniplanar MMIC Wilkinson power divider; Coplanar transmission lines; Coplanar waveguides; Distributed parameter circuits; Impedance; Inductors; MMICs; Microstrip; Power dividers; Power transmission lines; Shunt (electrical);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2003 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7695-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2003.1210883

Filename

1210883