TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
vii
Publications and Reports
xii
Introduction
xix
I.
Physical Electronics
Physical Electronics in the Solid State
Characteristics of Semiconductor Junctions
II.
1
1
Electron Emission and Cesium Plasma
2
Thermionic Energy Converters
2
Plasma Dynamics
Plasma Physics
12
12
Magneto-ambipolar Plasmas
13
Synchrotron Radiation Loss from a Hot Plasma
15
Cesium Plasma
20
Heat Transport in Plasmas
21
Plasma Electronics
26
Electron-Beam Stimulated Plasma Oscillation
27
Propagation between Parallel Plates Filled with a Gyroelectric
Medium Transverse to the Static Magnetic Field
35
Propagation in Plasma Waveguides
39
Covariant Formulation for Wave Motions in a Plasma
41
Plasma Magnetohydrodynamics and Energy Conversion
III.
1
Solid State Physics
59
60
A Simple Transistor -Operated Oven- Temperature Regulator
61
Soft X-ray Detection by Means of Be-Cu Photomultipliers
62
Elastic Constants of Cadmium Single Crystals
65
Recombination of Electrons and Donors in Germanium
66
IV.
Low Temperature Physics
71
V.
Thermoelectric Processes and Materials
72
Mercury Telluride Evaluation
73
Thermoelectric Temperature Control of Electronic Components
73
Transport of Contact Materials in Bismuth Telluride
74
Thermal Conductivity Studies
75
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VI.
VII.
Microwave Spectroscopy
79
Spin-Lattice Relaxation
81
Maser Circuits with Negative L and C
83
A Secondary Standard for Electron ParamagneticResonance Experiments
88
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Hyperfine Structure
89
Atomic-Beam Absorption Cell
90
Mechanical Improvements in a High-Power Microwave
Attenuator
201
Hyperfine Structure of Hg
in Zero Field
90
3
P
1
State of Mercury
Microwave Electronics
91
92
93
Broadband-Buncher Klystron
93
Space-Charge Mode Theory of Multicavity Klystrons
98
The X-line Slow-Wave Structure
IX.
89
Isotope Shift in the Spectrum of Cesium
Hyperfine Structure of the
VIII.
79
Ruby Frequency Standard
Atomic Beams
Doppler-Cancellation Technique for Determining the
Altitude Dependence of Gravitational Red Shift in
an Earth Satellite
104
108
108
X.
Stroboscopic Research
112
XI.
Modulation Theory and Systems
113
Signal-to-Noise Ratios in a Limiter with Feedforward
XII.
XIII.
Statistical Communication Theory
113
116
Characterization of Random Signals with an Application to
Nonstationary Linear Systems
117
Gravitational Fields
125
Realizability of Nonlinear Filters and Feedback
Systems
137
Process Analysis and Synthesis
144
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XIV.
Processing and Transmission of Information
Noisy Feedback Coding
Encoding and Error-Correction Procedures for the
Bose-Chaudhuri Codes
Receivers for Noisy Dispersive Channels
Maximal Power Gain in a Diodeless Magnetic Pulse
Amplifier with the Use of Multiple-Aperture Cores
Unilateral Iterative Networks with Memory
XV.
XVI.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
149
150
151
152
154
A Mechanical Hand
156
Artificial Intelligence
158
The LISP Programming System
158
The Advice Taker
159
Theory of Computation
159
Chess
160
Integration
161
Statistical Thermodynamics
Physical Acoustics
Scattering of Sound by Sound
XVIII.
147
Extraction of Information for a Pair of Periodically
Varying Random Waveforms
The Geometrical Interpretation of the Thermostatic
Stability Conditions
XVII.
146
Speech Communication
162
162
167
167
172
Formant Bandwidth and Vowel Preference
High-Speed Motion-Picture Study of the Movement of
the Lips
172
Signal Detection by Human Observers
The Detection of a Pulsed Sinusoid of Uncertain Frequency
181
Mechanical Translation
183
174
181
The German Noun Phrase
183
The Ergative Relation in Hidatsa
184
Communications Biophysics
Firing Patterns of Single Cells in the Auditory Cortex
187
189
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XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
Neurophysiology
On Parallel Computation
194
Structure of Water in Biological Tissue
195
Circuit Theory
XXVI.
198
Inert Transformations and Network Constraints
198
Low-Order Frequency Multipliers
203
Noise in Electron Devices
Measurement of Absolute Noise Performance of
Parametric Amplifiers
XXV.
193
Network Synthesis
205
205
213
On the Analysis and Synthesis of Single-Element-Kind
Networks
213
The Normal-Coordinate Transformation of a Linear System
with an Arbitrary Loss Function
235
Matrix Synthesis of Two-Element-Kind Driving-Point
Impedances
245
Linguistics
255