A Novel L-CRLH Based Compact Wide Band Filtered Power Divider for WLAN Applications

A new compact power divider based on inductor loaded composite right/left-handed transmission line (L-CRLH) is presented in this paper. The proposed power divider size is only 17.3 × 15.4 mm
²
, (0.53×0.47) λ
²
g at mid frequency. The results show 3 dB insertion losses and 14 dB return losses at each output port in the frequency band 5 GHz to 6.5 GHz. Moreover, the power divider has filtering function