Abstract:
Miniaturized substrate integrated waveguide(SIW) filtering power dividers with output equal/unequal power and quadrature phase are proposed based on embedded isolation network and hybrid multi-mode technology. For the first time, the capacitive loaded isolation network is embedded in multi-mode resonant units to construct the novel SIW filtering power divider architecture, which simultaneously realizes high-density integration, high isolation, different output power ratios and orthogonality. It should be noted that the embedded isolation network with output quadrature consists of four embedded transmission lines, two chip capacitors, and two interdigital capacitors, thus realizing the high-density integration, controllable output power ratios, output orthogonality and high isolation of the SIW filtering power divider. In addition, the fourth-order filtering response with the wide stopband and high frequency selectivity can be achieved through hybrid four-mode resonant units. Specifically, two LC modes are embedded within two SIW cavity modes (TE
101 and TE
201), which not only cause the rapid frequency decline of TE
101 and TE
201 modes but also maintain other higher-order modes largely unchanged, resulting in the wide stopband characteristic. Furthermore, multi-way cross-coupling generates two transmission zeros near the adjacent passband to achieve high frequency selectivity. After processing and testing, the design of equal/unequal filtering power dividers achieves center frequencies (
f0) at 6.03 GHz/6.04 GHz, 3 dB relative bandwidths of 3.5%/3.6% and output power ratios of 1/1.5. Their output phase differences, full-band isolation and upper stopband suppression are 90°±2.6°/89°±4°, 20.1 dB/19.6 dB and 20 dB @ 3.09
f0/20 dB @ 3.05
f0, respectively. The sizes of these filtering power dividers are only 0.4λ
g2, where λ
g is waveguide wavelength at
f0. In this paper, two miniaturized high-isolation filtering power dividers (FPDs) based on embedded isolation networks are proposed. By combining LC resonators with HMSIW resonators, a single-cavity four-mode resonance and wide-stopband filtering performance are achieved. Furthermore, with the utilization of cross-coupling and quadrature isolation networks, the proposed FPD integrates filtering, power division, and phase-shifting functions into a single device. Featuring advantages such as compact size, high selectivity, high isolation, wide stopband, quadrature output, and variable power division ratios, the presented FPD can be better applied to various RF front-end systems.