Design and analysis of a 3-way unequal split ultra-wideband Wilkinson power divider

In this article, a 3-way ultra-wideband (UWB) unequal split Wilkinson power divider (WPD) using tapered line transformers is presented. Three tapered lines are designed through the even-mode analysis, and used instead of the conventional 3-way WPD arms. In addition to the three main arms, three additional tapered transformers are used to match the output ports to the 50 Ω connectors. To achieve an acceptable output ports matching and isolation, multiple resistors are uniformly distributed and mounted between the three tapered arms of the WPD. An optimisation process is carried out to obtain the values of these resistors considering the odd-mode analysis. The proposed WPD is designed to operate over the frequency band of 2–12 GHz, and simulated using two full-wave EM simulators. Full-wave simulation and experimental results verify the design procedure.

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