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A planar microstrip circuit is proposed in this article to design a dual-band balanced-to-unbalanced out-of-phase power divider with inherent impedance transformation. This balanced-to-unbalanced power divider, which essentially consists of two pairs of cascaded coupled lines, two dual-band 90° phase shifters, and a grounded resistor, features the dual-band application with inherent impedance transformation, the equal power division with out of phase, high isolation between two outputs, good ports (A, 3, and 4) matching, and high common-mode noise suppression as well as the excellent conversion inhibition between the differential-mode signals and the common-mode noise. The closed-form solutions are obtained by using the traditional odd- and even-mode analytical methods. Finally, a practical microstrip balanced-to-unbalanced power divider, which operates at 0.9 GHz and 1.8 GHz, is designed and fabricated. The simulated and measured results verify the correctness of the circuit and the design theory. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this paper, a novel closed-form design method of generalized Wilkinson power dividers is proposed. By using this method, the power divider could be designed to be arbitrary-way (N-way) with arbitrary power division, and arbitrary dual-band operations in a pure planar structure. A previous dual-band unequal Wilkinson power divider is extended to arbitrary terminal impedances case, thus, it can be used to construct multiway planar power dividers through the combination of the two-section dual-frequency transformers. To obtain three-way (or any odd-way) power dividers with dual-band and unequal power division features, a new developed recombinant structure is employed. This recombinant structure consists of a two-way dual-band unequal power divider/combiner without any isolation structures. Furthermore, the complete design procedures and analytical equations of these proposed generalized power dividers are presented. To verify our proposed design approach in theory, several three-way and four-way power dividers with different dual-band applications and various power divisions are designed and simulated. Finally, a practical three-way power divider operating at both 0.6 and 2.45 GHz with a power dividing ratio of 3:5:1 is fabricated in microstrip technology as a typical example. The measured results of the fabricated power divider verify our proposed idea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Gysel power divider (PD) is modified to achieve unequal or equal power division and suitability for three arbitrary real terminated impedances without any transmission losses in this letter. The calculation of electrical parameters in this asymmetrical structure is flexible. Meanwhile, this modified Gysel PD maintains high power-handling advantage over Wilkinson PD. By using the transmission line theory, the simple closed-form design equations are available for evaluation of these circuit parameters. For verification, two microstrip examples, which include an equal Gysel PD with three different output-port impedances and an unequal one for three standard 50-\Omega ports without additional output-port transformers, are given. It can be observed that there is excellent agreement between the simulated and measured results. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A novel wideband out-of-phase power divider based on Klopfenstein tapered line is proposed for the first time. By using double-sided parallel-strip line (DSPSL) with inserted conductor plane as virtual ground, frequency-independent phase difference can be achieved with antisymmetric output structures. Odd-/even-mode analysis shows that the introduced Klopfenstein tapered line can expand bandwidth greatly, and additional eight pairs of isolation resistors are added to realize high output matching and isolation. For verification, this presented power divider is fabricated and measured. The simulation and measurement show that this structure can achieve a wide frequency range from 0.5 GHz to 7.3 GHz, within which the S -parameters (S 11 , S 22 , S 32) are all better than −10 dB, and the phase imbalance is less than 7°. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]