Title :
Microstrip three-way power combiners using a standard MIC technology
Author :
Maurin, David ; Beauregard, François ; Wu, Ke
Author_Institution :
Groupe de Recherches Avancées en Microondes et Electronique Spatiale (POLY-GRAMES), Projet AMPLI, Dépt. de génie électrique et de génie informatique, Ecole Polytechnique, C P 6079, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal (Québec), Canada H3C 3A7.
Abstract :
A comparative study of some existing microstrip three-way power divider/combiner networks with very high combining efficiency is presented. Four topologies are compared to each other and also to the standard corporate four-way structure. All the studied topologies have shown a good performance with less than ¿0.3 dB loss over the frequency band 1.7-2.1 GHz. The best simulation and measurement results have been obtained with the two-stage three-way fork divider with a combining efficiency of 95.7% (< ¿0.2 dB loss) over the frequency band of interest.
Keywords :
Circuit topology; Impedance; Microstrip; Microwave integrated circuits; Network topology; Power amplifiers; Power combiners; Power dividers; Power transmission lines; Resistors;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 1996. 26th European
Conference_Location :
Prague, Czech Republic
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.1996.337707
