TABLE OF CONTENTS
vi
Personnel
x
Publications and Reports
Introduction
I.
xiii
1
Physical Electronics
Physical Electronics in the Solid State
1
Characteristics of Junctions in Germanium
1
Surface States on Semiconductors
2
Electroluminescence
2
Electron Emission Problems
3
Effect of a Magnetic Field and of a Unidirectional
Heating Current on Thermionic Emission from
Molybdenum
3
Experimental Techniques
Low-Pressure Measurements
Electrometer for Currents down to 10
II.
3
-12
amp
4
Pressure Computation from McLeod Gauge Measurements
5
Microwave Gaseous Discharges
8
11
Measurement of the Collision Cross Section
and of the Energy Loss of Slow Electrons
in Hydrogen
14
Zero-Shift Method for Measuring the Frequency
of Collision of Electrons in Gases
18
22
Solid State Physics
Microwave Spectroscopy
23
27
Ammonia Maser
27
Paramagnetic- Resonance Spectrometer
28
0
V.
8
Probe Measurements in Coaxial Geometry
Recombination of Electrons and Donors
in Germanium
IV.
4
Photoelectrons Produced by Soft X-rays
"Multipacting" in a Magnetic Field
III.
3
Versitron 180 -Pulse Technique
28
Solid-State Quantum- Mechanical Amplifier
33
Gadolinium Ethyl Sulphate Spectrum
33
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Hyperfine Structure
35
Atomic-Beam Light Sources
36
Hyperfine Structure of the P State of Mercury by
Double-Resonance Methods
39
CONTENTS
VI.
Microwave Electronics
40
Low-Q Output Cavity for Hollow-Beam Klystrons
41
Propagation in a Circular Waveguide Loaded with
a Nondrifting Plasma
42
Power Relations in Parametric,
49
Nonlinear Media
Mode Coupling in a Periodically Loaded Transmission line
VII.
Atomic Beams
50
55
Hyperfine Structure of Bromine
56
Linear Decelerator for Molecules
56
Measurement of the Velocity of Light
57
Stabilization in Klystron Phase-Locked
Oscillator Loops
59
Resonance Detector:
61
Velocity of Light Experiment
VIII.
Stroboscopic Research
64
IX.
Frequency Modulation
65
Condition for Quasi-Stationary Response
X.
Statistical Communication Theory
65
68
The Invariance Property of Correlation Functions
under Nonlinear Transformations
68
Saddlepoint Method of Integration
73
Expansions for Some Second-Order Probability
Distributions
81
XI.
Process Analysis and Synthesis
85
XII.
Processing and Transmission of Information
86
Solvability Criterion for Simultaneous Logical Equations
87
Zero Error Capacity for List Detection
88
List Decoding
90
Picture Processing
95
Algebraic Decoding for the Binary Erasure Channel
100
XIII.
Transistor and Diode Studies
104
XIV.
Noise in Electron Devices
105
Noise Performance of Parametric,
Beam Amplifiers
Longitudinal-
Network Optimization of Maser Noise Performance
105
106
CONTENTS
XV.
Statistical Thermodynamics
Second Phase Rule and Superfluidity
XVI.
XVII.
Speech Analysis
XIX.
XX.
109
112
Study of Intonation
112
Mechanical Translation
116
On Characterization of Finite-State Languages
XVIII.
109
Communications Biophysics
116
119
Detection and Masking of Beats in Repeated
Bursts of Tone
120
Time Course of Adaptation of Evoked Responses
from the Cat's Somesthetic and Auditory Systems
121
Studies of the Auditory Nervous System by Using
Combined Acoustic and Electric Stimulation
124
Relation of Intrinsic Alpha Activity to Rhythmic
Activity Induced by Photic Stimulation in Man
128
Study of EEG Characteristics by Means of a
Digital Computer
134
Vacuum Spring Electrodes
134
Neurophysiology
137
Vision in the Frog
137
Membrane Properties in Nerve
146
A New Cathode Follower
146
Circuit Theory
149
Network Topology
149
Parametric Amplification
150
A Simple Example of Nonlinear Filtering
150
Thermal Integrating Multiplier
151
XXI.
Network Synthesis
155
XXII.
Microwave Theory
156
XXIII.
Cascading of Bilateral, Two-Port Networks by
Means of the Schilling Figure
156
Noise-Power Ratio Transformations in ThreeDimensional Spaces
157
Noise Transformations in Four-Dimensional Spaces
159
Mathematics
On Binary Relations
165
165