Compact Wilkinson Power Divider With Common Inductor on the IPD Process

Abstract

This paper presents a Wilkinson power divider using a common inductor. The lumped topology uses the inherently inductive loss of the inductor as a part of the design, so the conventional resistor for high isolation can be omitted. Therefore, low-loss and high-isolation performances of the compact circuit were achieved. The proposed 2.5-GHz divider was implemented on a silicon-based integrated passive device process. Measurement of the prototype chip had a reflection coefficient below 18 dB at all ports, an insertion loss of 0.5 dB and isolation above 28 dB. The chip size is merely $0.011\lambda _{\mathrm {o}} \times 0.019\lambda _{\mathrm {o}}$ .

Keywords

• Wilkinson power divider
• lumped transmission line
• resistorless
• common inductor
• integrated passive devices