Miniature Four-Way and Two-Way 24 GHz Wilkinson Power Dividers in 0.13 μm CMOS

This letter presents 24 GHz four-way and two-way miniature Wilkinson power dividers (PDs) in a standard CMOS technology. The chip area is significantly reduced using a lumped-element design, and the effective areas of four-way and two-way Wilkinson dividers are 0.33 times 0.33 mm² and 0.12 times 0.29 mm², respectively. The four-way Wilkinson divider results in an insertion loss <2.4 dB, an input/output return loss better 15.5 dB, and a port-to-port isolation >24.7 dB from 22 to 26 GHz. The two-way Wilkinson divider results in an insertion loss <1.4 dB, an input/output return loss better 8.9 dB, and a port-to-port isolation >14.8 dB from 22 to 26 GHz. To the author´s knowledge, this is the first demonstration of 24 GHz four-way Wilkinson PD in a standard CMOS technology.