A Novel UWB Wilkinson Power Divider

Bo Zhou, Hao Wang, Weixing Sheng

School of Electronics and Optical Engineering Nanjing university of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210094, China. E-mail address: Sarahxboy@hotmail.com shorter. The second transmission line Z2 is used to play the role of impedance matching with butterfly radial stub.

AbstractA novel UWB power divider formed by installing one overlapped butterfly radial stub on each branch is proposed. Such structure makes branch line shorter and circuits size smaller compares to power divider with single radial stub. Its also achieved a compact size of 18 mm by 16 mm. The simulation and measurement results of the UWB power divider are presented and shown good agreement. Keywords- microstip, Ultra wideband(UWB), Wilkinson power divider.

I.

INTRODUCTION

Modern ultra wideband (UWB) wireless communication systems require their radio frequency components to work in UWB range. Therefore, components that work between 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz are of great research interest. UWB power divider is one of the most useful components that are used in various RF and microwave circuits. In recent years, many new types of power dividers for the application of UWB have been proposed in [1,2]. Recently, an UWB power divider based on radial stub was developed [3] and it exhibited good power splitting performance over the UWB range. In [4,5], Giannini et al. have shown that a butterfly radial stub connect to a microstrip line has improved wider band characteristics compared to a single radial stub. In the paper, an UWB power divider based on overlapped butterfly open radial stub is proposed. The divider is established by introducing one overlapped butterfly radial stub on each branch, so that the ultra wideband performance can be achieved. And I improved traditional butterfly stub to overlapped one for the purpose of size reduction. Herein, only a single resistor needs to be used for output ports isolation. Good impedance matching, power splitting and isolation can be achieved over the UWB range by simulation and experiment measurements. In the following, the UWB power divider will be fabricated on the RO4003C substrate with a dielectric constant of 3.38 and a thickness of 0.508mm.

Figure 1. The schematic diagram of the proposed UWB

The impedance of input and output ports are both 50 and the characteristic impedance of the first and the second transmission lines are Z1= Z2=75 , the electrical length of the first and the second transmission lines are 1=58.5 and 2=7.8 , respectively. So branch transmission line of the UWB power divider is much shorter than traditional power divider with 90 branch transmission line. This makes its size smaller. Figure 2 shows structure of the proposed UWB power divider with overlapped butterfly radial stub.

II.

DESIGN

Figure 1 shows the schematic diagram of the proposed UWB power divider. Compared to UWB power divider proposed by O. Ahmed and A. R. Sebak in [3], single open radial stub of each branch is substituted by an overlapped butterfly radial stub, which makes the size of circuit smaller and the electrical length 1 and 2 of first and second transmission line much

Figure 2. Structure of the proposed UWB power divider

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A butterfly radial stub is formed by connecting two radial stubs in shunt on either side of a transmission line. Today, they are very popular in developing wide-band components because in the shunt configuration of a butterfly radial stub, the added symmetry of multiple stubs can improve bandwidth compared to single radial stub. By adjusting the radius, width and angle of the radial stub, the bandwidth can be broadened. Moreover, in order to obtain compact and smaller size, I modified the butterfly radial stub overlapped on layout. As can be seen in Figure 3, vertex of traditional butterfly radial stub is located at the middle of microstrip line whereas overlapped butterfly radial stub overlaps two wings and microstrip together to decrease its size. Due to the structure of the proposed power divider is symmetric, it can be analyzed by even-odd decomposition method. The isolation resistor is selected to be 100 .
Figure 4. Photograph of the proposed UWB power divider

The measured result of the insertion loss is better than 0.5dB. The measured input, output return loss and output ports isolation are better than -10dB across UWB range which can be seen in Figure 5(a) and Figure 5(b). Figure 5(c) presents the simulated and measured group delay between the input and output ports. The group delay of the proposed UWB power divider is almost constant and less than 0.14ns which shows good linearity within the UWB frequency range.

Figure 3. Structures of the traditional and overlapped butterfly radial stub

III.

IMPLEMETATION AND RESULTS

To verify and validity, the proposed UWB power divider is simulated by the AWR EMSight simulator which is a fullwave electromagnetic solver based on spectral-domain method of moments in Microwave Office 2008. By optimization with Microwave office 2008, we set dimension parameters of the proposed UWB power divider as: W0=1.14mm, W=0.54mm, Wg=1.58mm,L0=8mm, L1=4.5mm, L2=0.6mm, R0=1.3mm, theta=58 and R=100 , shown in Figure 2. And the proposed UWB power divider is fabricated on the RO4003C substrate with a dielectric constant of 3.38 and a thickness of 0.508mm. The over all dimension of the fabricated UWB power divider circuit is 18 x 16 mm2, as shown in Figure 4. And the measured data are collected from the HP N5230A network analyzer. The simulated and measured parameters are presented in Figure 5, respectively.

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Figure 5. Simulated and measured parameters of proposed UWB power divider, (a) S11 and S21 parameters, (b) S22 and S23 parameters and (c) Group delay parameter.

IV.

CONLUSION

A novel UWB power divider with overlapped butterfly radial stub on each branch is proposed. Good performance, shorter branch line and compact size have been implemented and achieved on the power divider by using overlapped butterfly stub.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author would like to acknowledge the collaborative work with Nanjing Ericsson Company for PCB manufacturing.

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