Compact filtering power divider for mm‐wave applications using integrated passive device technology

Abstract

We present a compact, filtering power divider (FPD) using integrated passive device technology (IPD) for mm‐wave applications. Our proposed FPD design integrates quarter‐wavelength coupled‐resonator bandpass filters with a Wilkinson power divider, using size reduction techniques. Coupled coplanar waveguides provide excellent coupling while occupying a small area, and metal‐insulator‐metal capacitors offer the required λ/4 phase shift without length extension. The center frequency of the filtering power divider/combiner (FPD/C) is located at 30‐GHz. We demonstrate our FPD design by fabricating four prototypes with parameter variations. The insertion loss, fractional bandwidth, and size of the FPD/C designed in this study are from 2.56 to 3.3 dB, from 9.67% to 19.4%, and from 0.592 to 0.220‐mm2, respectively. In addition, the return loss of all models at the center frequency is 28.5 dB or more, and the isolation is 16.6 dB or more.