Four ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas are proposed: one referenced antenna without notch and three novel antennas with one, two and three notched bands, respectively. The UWB referenced antenna consists of a beveled rectangular metal patch, a 50 Ω microstrip line and a defective ground plane. Then, by utilizing one, two and three electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structures on the UWB antenna, the an...

A simultaneous masking procedure was used to derive four measures of frequency selectivity in the chinchilla. The first experiment measured critical masking ratios (CRs) at various signal frequencies. Estimates of the chinchillas' critical bandwidths derived from the CRs were much broader than comparable human estimates, indicating that the chinchilla may have inferior frequency selectivity. Th...

A novel printed monopole antenna with a pair of parasitic patches for wideband operation is proposed and studied. With the use of parasitic patches along the microstrip feed line, a good performance of bandwidth enhancement is obtained. The measured impedance bandwidth, defined by voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) ≤ 2, can operate from 2.3 to 6.2GHz. A tri-band printed monopole antenna is crea...

Phenomena resembling tinnitus and Zwicker phantom tone are seen to result from an auditory gain adaptation mechanism that attempts to make full use of a fixed-capacity channel. In the case of tinnitus, the gain adaptation enhances internal noise of a frequency band otherwise silent due to damage. This generates a percept of a phantom sound as a consequence of hearing loss. In the case of Zwicke...

The spectral resolution of the binaural system was measured using a tone-detection task in a binaural analog of the notched-noise technique. Three listeners performed 2-interval, 2-alternative, forced choice tasks with a 500-ms out-of-phase signal within 500 ms of broadband masking noise consisting of an "outer" band of either interaurally uncorrelated or anticorrelated noise, and an "inner" ba...

In this paper, a compact, planar ultrawideband (UWB) monopole microstrip antenna is proposed which offers dual band notch characteristics with enhanced rejection at frequency bands centered at 3.4GHz and 5.5GHz. To realize enhanced band notched characteristics at 3.4GHz, a pair of filters is incorporated which includes an inverted ‘L’ shaped slot and a twisted ‘J’ shaped slot in the patch eleme...

In this paper, a compact band-notched UWB planar antenna with Transmission-Line-fed is presented and I’m using a new technique by etching a narrowband resonance H-shape slot in the ground plane of the antenna. This antenna is capable reducing the interference at the WLAN bands by eliminating the 4.85–6.17 GHz band. The proposed antenna has compact size of 16 × 22 mm2 including the ground plane ...

Breebaart et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 1089-1104 (2001)] reported that the masker bandwidth dependence of detection thresholds for an out-of-phase signal and an in-phase noise masker (N0Sπ) can be explained by principles of integration of information across critical bands. In this paper, different methods for such across-frequency integration process are evaluated as a function of the bandw...

This paper presents a novel circular fractal ring monopole antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) hardware with dual band-notched properties. The proposed consists of four crescent-shaped nested rings, tapered feeding line at the front dielectric material, and semicircular ground plane on backside. In this design, rings are used both as radiation element band rejection element. has bandwidth 9.03 GHz...