A novel scheme of a shrunken Wilkinson power divider with harmonic suppression, using two identical resonators in the conventional Wilkinson power divider is designed. Moreover, the LC equivalent circuit and its relevant formulas are provided. To substantiate the functionality and soundness of design, a microstrip implementation of this design operating at 1 GHz with the second to eighth harmonic suppression, is developed. The proposed circuit is relatively smaller than the conventional circuit, (roughly 55% of the conventional circuit). Simulation and measurement results for the proposed scheme, which are highly consistent with one another, indicate a good insertion loss about 3.1 dB, input return loss of 20 dB and isolation of 20 dB, while sustaining high-power handling capability over the Wilkinson power divider.

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A novel compact Gysel power divider with up to 12th, harmonics suppression was proposed in this study. Incorporation of six similar low-pass filters into the conventional Gysel power divider is applied to this design. The proposed power divider reduces the occupied area to only 9 % of the conventional Gysel power divider at 625 MHz (91 % size reduction). A comprehensive comparison between the proposed design and other published studies substantiates the superiority of the proposed design in terms of circuit size and stop-band bandwidth. Furthermore, this design retains the high-power handling capability over the Wilkinson power divider.