Miniaturized microstrip Wilkinson power divider with EBG structure

A novel miniaturized microstrip Wilkinson power divider with capacitor loading is presented in this paper. The new divider not only effectively reduces the occupied area to 50% of the conventional one at 1.0 GHz, but also has good harmonic suppression performance. Furthermore, the new structure has only two variable parameters and can be easily designed. The design is validated both by simulation and measurement.