Contents Introduction 1 Personnel 2 Publications and Reports 4 Research Projects I II III Microwave and Physical Electronics A High-Power Magnetron Research B Cathode Research 1 Cathode Interface Studies The Interface as a Blocking Layer 2 Conductivity and Work Punctions of Oxide Cathodes 3 Spectral Emissivity of Tungsten 4 Electron Emission in Accelerating and Retarding Fields 5 C Ionization Gauge Research D Properties of Cathode-Ray Tube Screens Determination of Emission Properties of Single Crystals Z Construction of 5-mm Oxford Tyne Tube 7 G Traveling-Wave Amplifier Tubes 1 Theoretical Considerations 2 Experimental Studies 5 6 6 8 8 9 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 12 Microwave Physics Hicrowave Spectroscopy A 1. Microwave-Frequency Bridge Sweep Spectroscope 2. Audio-Frequency Bridge 3 Caesium Spectrum 4 Molecular Beam Research B 1 Hyperfine Structure of Hydrogen Second Molecular Beam Resonance Anparatus 2 C Low Pressure Gas Discharges D Low Temperature Research 1 Helium Liquefiers 2 Studies on Liquid Helium 3 Studies on Beryllium 4 Superconductivity at 1 25 am 5. Magnetic Nuclear Resonance Experiments 6 Adiabatic Demagnetization 7 The Classification of Phase Transitions E Paramagnetism at Microwave Freouencies 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 20 20 23 23 24 24 24 26 34 35 35 Modern Electronic Techniques Applied to Physics and Engineering Design and Construction of a Microwave Accelerator A B Ultrasonics Research Program Ultrasonic Measurements in Liquid Argon and Liquid Helium 1 2 Ultrasonics Measurements above 100 Mo/sec Ultrasonic Absortion in Metals 3 4 Param-ignetic Relaxation Experiment 5 Attenuation in Sil cle Crystals Cyclotron R-F Project 0 D. Three-Cm Sweep-Frequency Oscillator 36 37 37 38 39 40 40 41 41 IV V Communications and Related Projects Modulation Studies Spectrum Utilization, Efficiency of Power A Utilization, Signal-to-Noise Ratios 1. General Analysis of the Transmission of Information Pulse Modulation Studies 2 3. Prouerties of Random Noise The Action of Limiters and Discriminators in FM Receivers 4 in the Presence of Noise Stabilized Oscillator Problems B Equal-Arm Microwave Frequency-Discriminator 1 2. Distortion Due to Frequency Modulation of a FrequencyStabilized Klystron Square-Wave Modulation of the Pound Freauency Stabilizer 3 Multipath Transmission 0 D Response of Networks to Frequency Transients Miscellaneous Problems Locking Phenomena in R-F Oscillators A B Electronic Differential Analyzer C Electronic Potential Mapping D. Broadbanding of Arbitrary Impedances E- Approximation of a Sneclfied Amplitude and Phase by a Linear Network F Synthesis of Optimum Linear Systems