This paper presents a symmetric-type microstrip triple-band bandstop filter incorporating a tri-section meandered-line stepped impedance resonator (SIR). The length of each section of the meandered line is 0.16, 0.15, and 0.83 times the guided wavelength (λ g ), so that the filter features three stop bands at 2.59 GHz, 6.88 GHz, and 10.67 GHz, respectively. Two symmetric SIRs are employed with ...

The capacity to rapidly suppress a behavioral act in response to sudden instruction to stop is a key cognitive function. This function, called reactive control, is tested in experimental settings using the stop signal task, which requires subjects to generate a movement in response to a go signal or suppress it when a stop signal appears. The ability to inhibit this movement fluctuates over tim...

We have investigated the fluorescence from R6G dye molecules embedded in fcc photonic crystals with a large range of lattice parameters. Both polystyrene opals and alumina inverse opals are studied, allowing us to compare direct and inverted structures. We observe clear stop bands in the fluorescence spectra, whose center positions, widths, and depths are analyzed and compared to stop bands fro...

We present an analytical model based on scalar-wave approximation to study the stop bands of facecentered-cubic photonic crystals with dielectric spheres at lattice sites. An analytical expression is obtained for the normalized stop band widths along the @111# and @100# directions as a function of volume fraction and relative dielectric contrast. These calculations enable us to map out the diel...

Based on the well known theory of infinite periodic structures, analytical theory of EBG (electromagnetic band gap) cells suppressing 6 higher (spurious) stop-bands is developed. Using such cells in a cascade the straight-forward procedure for design of the corresponding EBG band-stop filter is proposed, with possibility to control the width and the depth of the stopband. The analytical theory ...