DESIGN OF SEVERAL POWER DIVIDERS USING CPW-TO-MICROSTRIP TRANSITION

Based on the theory of microstrip-to-slotline transition, a series of power dividers with CPW-to-microstrip transition is developed. These power dividers can be made to be coplanar or non- coplanar structure, and the phase difierence between the two output ports can be ∞exibly achieved in phase or out of phase. Two microstrip feed lines couple the energy from the two slots of the CPW with equal magnitude, thus realizing CPW-to-microstrip transition. An in-phase power divider and an out-of-phase one are designed, fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the power dividers provide good return loss, low insertion loss, and stable phase between the two output ports over the operating frequency band.