An Ultra-Compact Unequal Power Division Ratio Power Divider Based on Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons
摘要
With the rapid development of 5G communications and millimeter-wave RF front-end technologies, microwave integrated systems impose increasingly stringent requirements on power dividers in terms of miniaturization, unequal power-division flexibility, filtering functionality, and port isolation performance. To address the limitations of conventional unequal power dividers in structural compactness and performance balance, this paper proposes an ultra-compact filtering power divider with unequal power-division ratio based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs). By leveraging the strong field confinement and inherent low-pass filtering characteristics of SSPPs, the proposed device integrates filtering and power division functions into a single compact structure, realizing a 1:2 unequal power division with an ultra-compact footprint of only