A Novel Wilkinson Power Divider Using Open Stubs for The Suppression of Harmonics
Keywords:
Harmonic suppression, open stub, Wilkinson power dividerAbstract
In this paper, the design process of a novel Wilkinson power divider is presented. The proposed power divider features a simple structure with open stubs at each port. With slight changes of the dimensions of open stubs, designed power divider can suppress combinations of each two desired order harmonic simultaneously. From the measured results, 45 dB and 43 dB suppression for 3rd and 5th harmonics is obtained, respectively. The proposed power divider has an insertion loss less than 0.1 dB, input return loss better than 31 dB, output return loss better than 51 dB, and better than 43 dB of isolation at 1.65 GHz.
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