Design and development of multi-port switchable power dividers

Microstrip line based two switchable power dividers are presented in this paper and these models are capable of power division control at four output ports. Here, power switching is implemented with terminating some open-ended stub-lines using varactor diodes and corresponding mathematical equations are derived. Proper DC voltages are applied for biasing the activator diodes and consequently to have appropriate stub-line terminations. For designing these power dividers, CST Microwave Studio is used here as the EM tool. The characteristics such as return loss, insertion loss and isolation have been explored from the simulation results followed by it's fabrication and measurement. Quite good agreement is achieved between the simulation and the experimental results. Much better performance characteristics make this proposed power divider a good candidate for various microwave systems where switchable power dividers are required. (C) 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.