A novel design of a reconfigurable power divider with stubs for mobile applications

Abstract

Nowadays, the world knows a huge revolution in telecommunications, which has led to the need to integrate many services, such as long-term evolution (LTE), 5G, wireless local area network (WLAN), and Bluetooth, in one receiving and transmitting device. In the same way, all active and passive microwave circuits must be compatible with the integration of services, including the power divider, which is the subject of our work. This passive component is used in several fields such as medicine, surveillance, radar systems and others applications. Wilkinson divider is one of the most prominent power dividers, it is classified as narrow-band power divider and it is a very useful component in mobile applications (2.4 and 5.8 GHz). In this work, a reconfigurable 4-ports Wilkinson divider is designed using PIN diodes and simulated using connected speech test (CST) simulator software. This designed divider can easily modify the operation mode by activating or disabling the PIN diodes.