University of Technology

Department of Communications Engineering

Optical Communication Systems Engineering Branch

Microwave Power Dividers

Using Transmission Lines
“Unequal Power Divider”

Experiment No.6
Microwave Engineering Laboratory

Mousa Saad Luaibi

Third Year

Morning Study

Group (B)

Saturday, May
Friday, May 13, 14,
20222022
Microwave Engineering Laboratory EXP.NO.6: MICROWAVE POWER DIVIDERS Using Transmission Lines

➢ Theory
Wilkinson power divider can be designed to divide the power unequally between the output
ports by choosing different values for the line impedance.
Microwave Engineering Laboratory EXP.NO.6: MICROWAVE POWER DIVIDERS Using Transmission Lines

➢ Discussion
1. Comment on the results obtained from the schematic model simulation of power divider.
• At center frequency, I notice the input port have low reflection (S11=-24.8dB which
0.33% from incident power). The output at port(3) “S31 = -1.89dB which 64.71% from
incident power” have output power greater than the output at port(2) “S21=-4.91dB
which 32.28% form incident power”, because the scattering of S31 resulting from a
decrease in the impedance value is less than scattering of S21, and this means that the
power distribution at the two output ports is not equal.

2. Using substrate of 𝜀𝑟 =3.38, h=1.6, find the width of microstrip sections that implement
the above circuits as well as the corresponding length of quarter wavelength sections.
• Width:
8ℎ × 𝑒 𝑚
𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ = 2𝑚
𝑒 −2

𝑍𝑜 𝜀𝑟 + 1 𝜀𝑟 − 1 0.11
𝑚=( ×√ )+( × (0.23 + ))
60 2 𝜀𝑟 + 1 𝜀𝑟

• Length:
𝜆 𝑐
𝑙= =
4 4𝑓 √𝜀𝑒
Microwave Engineering Laboratory EXP.NO.6: MICROWAVE POWER DIVIDERS Using Transmission Lines

𝜀𝑟 + 1 𝜀𝑟 − 1 1
𝜀𝑒 = + ×
2 2
√1 + 12ℎ
𝑤

T.L. 𝑍𝑜 (Ω) 𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ (𝑚𝑚) 𝜀𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ (𝑚𝑚)

1 102.98 2.68260249 0.88359161 2.4396043 9.60354473

2 70.7 1.88643519 2.03413814 2.55831538 9.37808613

3 51.494 1.41273045 3.53571689 2.65927927 9.19833631

4 35.35 1.01454814 6.1894369 2.78135396 9.00036646

➢ Graph paper