Planar Miniaturized Balanced-to-Single-Ended Power Divider Based on Composite Left- and Right-Handed Transmission Lines

A planar asymmetrical miniaturized circuit based on composite left- and right-handed transmission lines (CLRHTLs) is proposed to design a new balanced-to-single-ended (BTSE) power divider (PD) in this letter. The CLRHTLs are used to realize circuit miniaturization and positive-phase response. Conversion between the mixed-mode scattering parameters and the standard scattering parameters, and circuit analytical methods are discussed to realize the equal power division in phase from one differential input to two SE outputs. To verify the correctness of the proposed theory, a practical BTSE PD, which operates at 0.95 GHz, is designed and fabricated. The measured relative bandwidth is 26.3%, and the final circuit size is only
$0.021~\lambda _{g}^{2}$
.