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Introduction
Personnel
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Publications and Reports
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Research Projects
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Microwave and Physical Electronics
A High-Power Magnetron Research
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Cathode Research
1 Cathode Interface Studies
2 The Interface as a Blocking Layer
3 Work Functions and Conductivity of Oxide Cathodes
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Spectral Emissivity of Tungsten
5 Electron Emission in Accelerating and Retarding Fields
C Ionization Gauge Research
D Properties of Cathode-Ray Tube Screens
E Determination of Emission Properties of Single Crystals
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Construction of 5-'1M Oxford Type Tube
G Travelling-Wave Amplifier Tubes
1 Theoretical Considerations
2 Experimental Studies
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Microwave Physics
A Microwave Spectroscopy
1. Microwave-Frequency Bridge (5 mm)
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Sweep Spectroscope
3 Audio-Frequency Bridge
4 Nuclear Magnetic Moment of Hydrogen
Caesium Hyperfine Structure
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B Molecular Beam Research
C Low Pressure Gas Discharges
D Low Temperature Research
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Helium Liquefiers
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Studies on Liquid Helium
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Studies on Beryllium
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Superconductivity at 1 25 cm
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Magnetic Nuclear Resonance Experiments
6 Adiabatic Demagnetization
7 Phase Transitions in the Hydrogen Halides
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Ferromagnetism at Microwave Frequencies
Modern Electronic Technicues Applied to Physics and Engineering
A Design and Construction of a Microwave Accelerator
B Ultrasonics Research Program
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Scope and Purpose
2 Ultrasonics as a Tool
3 Pulse Technique
4 Absorption Mechanisms in Liquids
5 Measurement Projects in 15-Mc/sec Range
6 Extension of the Frequency Range
C Development of Flash Tube
D Cyclotron R-F Project
E Three-Cm Sweep-Frequency Oscillator
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Communications and Related Projects
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Modulation Studies
Spectrum Utilization
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Efficiency of
Power Utilization, Signal-to-Noise Ratios
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General Analysis of the Transmission of Information
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Pulse Modulation Studies
3 Properties of Random Noise
4 The Action of Limiters and Discriminators in FM Receivers
in the Presence of Noise
Stabilized Oscillator Problems
Multipath Transmission
Wideband Amplifier Studies
Response of Networks to Frequency Transients
Miscellaneous Problems
A Locking Phenomena in R-F Oscillators
B Electronic Differential Analyzer
0 Electronic Potential Mapping
D Transient Phenomena in Waveguides
E Broadbanding of Arbitrary Impedances
F Elementary Properties of the Partition Function in the
Order-Disorder Problem
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Remarks on Approximation of a Specified Amplitude and Phase
by a Linear Network
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