Design of a 7-Way Microstrip Divider for a Hexagonal Honeycomb Structure
This paper proposes a 7-way microstrip divider for hexagonal honeycomb structures. The honeycomb arrangement has advantages such as equidistant adjacent output ports and high space utilization. The structure comprises six output ports arranged hexagonally and one output port placed at the center of...
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| description | This paper proposes a 7-way microstrip divider for hexagonal honeycomb structures. The honeycomb arrangement has advantages such as equidistant adjacent output ports and high space utilization. The structure comprises six output ports arranged hexagonally and one output port placed at the center of the hexagon in the same plane. To design such a divider considering the output ports' positions, this paper proposes the combination of a microstrip 6:1 unequal Wilkinson divider and a 6-way microstrip divider. To facilitate the implementation of the 6:1 unequal divider, including a transmission line with a high characteristic impedance, a microstrip coupler is used, and for the 6-way microstrip divider, a design scheme and analysis considering the impedance matching and isolation of the output ports are presented. Moreover, the ground layers of the two microstrip dividers are constructed in a back-to-back structure to minimize the size of the overall divider. For validation, a 5.8 GHz 7-way divider is designed, implemented, and measured. The measured S-parameters show that the proposed 7-way divider has appropriate return loss, insertion loss, isolation, and power distribution with a phase difference under 4.7°. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9b75d4926574144beeb24a8c81ee4fd2022-12-21T21:27:17ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-018703677037410.1109/ACCESS.2020.29867639062499Design of a 7-Way Microstrip Divider for a Hexagonal Honeycomb StructureEuibum Lee0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3943-4319Hyunchul Ku1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1961-5166Department of Electronic Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South KoreaThis paper proposes a 7-way microstrip divider for hexagonal honeycomb structures. The honeycomb arrangement has advantages such as equidistant adjacent output ports and high space utilization. The structure comprises six output ports arranged hexagonally and one output port placed at the center of the hexagon in the same plane. To design such a divider considering the output ports' positions, this paper proposes the combination of a microstrip 6:1 unequal Wilkinson divider and a 6-way microstrip divider. To facilitate the implementation of the 6:1 unequal divider, including a transmission line with a high characteristic impedance, a microstrip coupler is used, and for the 6-way microstrip divider, a design scheme and analysis considering the impedance matching and isolation of the output ports are presented. Moreover, the ground layers of the two microstrip dividers are constructed in a back-to-back structure to minimize the size of the overall divider. For validation, a 5.8 GHz 7-way divider is designed, implemented, and measured. The measured S-parameters show that the proposed 7-way divider has appropriate return loss, insertion loss, isolation, and power distribution with a phase difference under 4.7°.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9062499/Microwave circuitpower dividermicrostrip7-way dividerhexagonal honeycomb |
| spellingShingle | Euibum Lee Hyunchul Ku Design of a 7-Way Microstrip Divider for a Hexagonal Honeycomb Structure IEEE Access Microwave circuit power divider microstrip 7-way divider hexagonal honeycomb |
| title | Design of a 7-Way Microstrip Divider for a Hexagonal Honeycomb Structure |
| title_full | Design of a 7-Way Microstrip Divider for a Hexagonal Honeycomb Structure |
| title_fullStr | Design of a 7-Way Microstrip Divider for a Hexagonal Honeycomb Structure |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of a 7-Way Microstrip Divider for a Hexagonal Honeycomb Structure |
| title_short | Design of a 7-Way Microstrip Divider for a Hexagonal Honeycomb Structure |
| title_sort | design of a 7 way microstrip divider for a hexagonal honeycomb structure |
| topic | Microwave circuit power divider microstrip 7-way divider hexagonal honeycomb |
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