TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
vi
Publications and Reports
x
xiii
Introduction
I.
1
Physical Electronics
1
Physical Electronics in the Solid State
1
2
Conduction in Zinc-Sulphide Single Crystals
Low-Voltage Characteristics of Germanium Diodes
2
Electron Emission Problems
Effect of a Magnetic Field and of a Unidirectional
Heating Current on Thermionic Emission from
Molybdenum
2
3
Experimental Techniques
II.
III.
IV.
A Sensitive dc Amplifier, Battery-Operated
Photoelectrons Produced by Soft X-Rays
3
Surface States on Semiconductors
4
3
5
Microwave Gaseous Discharges
5
Diamagnetism of a Long Cylindrical Plasma
Microwave Measurements of Plasmas in Magnetic Fields
10
Effect of Electron Temperature on Plasma Conductivity
21
26
Microwave Spectroscopy
Phonon Mean-Free Paths
26
Phonon-Spin Absorption Cross Sections in Paramagnetic
Crystals
26
Atomic Recombination
27
Spectroscopy of Free Atoms and Radicals
Antiferromagnetic Resonance
27
28
30
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Hyperfine Structure
Paramagnetic Resonance in Atoms Aligned by Electron
Impact
97
Hyperfine Structure of Radioactive Hg197 and Hg 1 *
30
31
31
Preparation of Radioactive Mercury Samples
Magnetic Dipole Moment and Isotope Shift of
Radioactive Hg 1 9 7
Spectroscopic Study of Radioactive Hg 1 9 7 and Hgl
33
97
*
35
Intensity of Ultraviolet Radiation of a Microwave-Excited
Mercury Plasma in a Magnetic Field
40
Variations in the Calibration of High-Current Solenoids
42
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CONTENTS
V.
VI.
VII.
Microwave Electronics
43
Microwave Beam Measurements
45
Klystron Gap Theory
49
Multicavity Klystron
52
Plasma Oscillations
55
Frequency Modulation
56
Capture of the Weaker Signal: Feedforward Technique
56
FM Receiver Design
62
Statistical Communication Theory
Nonlinear Problems in Random Theory
Lecture 3.
Orthogonal Functionals
63
63
63
Lecture 4. Orthogonal Functionals and Autocorrelation
Functions
73
Lecture 5. Application to Frequency Modulation
Problems - I
81
Lecture 6. Application to Frequency Modulation
Problems - II
88
An Algebra of Continuous Systems
95
The Prediction of Gaussian-Derived Signals
A Sampling Theorem for Stationary Random Processes
An Ergodic Theorem for a Class of Random Processes
104
Optimum Nonlinear Filters with Fixed Output-Networks
Theory of the Analysis of Nonlinear Systems
118
A Theory of Signals
Theory and Application of the Separable Class of Random
Processes
VIII.
43
Mode Coupling in Periodic Structures by Variational
Techniques
Processing and Transmission of Information
111
116
124
124
124
125
The Function Display Program
125
Sampling Theorems for Linear Time-Variant Systems
Picture Processing
128
Two-Dimensional Second-Difference Pictures
134
Recoding Pictures by Generation of Lowpass and
Correction Signals
136
Picture Coding by Linear Interpolation
137
134
Estimation of the Channel Capacity Required for Picture
Transmission
140
Coding and Decoding of Binary Group Codes
140
CONTENTS
IX.
Noise in Electron Devices
Langevin Equation for Microwave Ferrite with Thermal
Noise
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
Speech Communication
143
143
Synthesis of Nasal Consonants by Terminal Analog
Synthesizer
144
Model Studies of the Production of Fricative Consonants
146
Synthesis and Perception of Fricative Consonants
150
A Wide-Range Electrostatic Loud-Speaker
153
Studies of the Perception of Speech-Like Sounds
155
Vowel Intonation Contours
156
Neurophysiology
162
Studies on the Node of Ranvier and Synthetic Neurology
162
Electrometer Cathode Follower
163
Repetitive Firing of Neurons
164
The Role of Reflexes in Movement
165
Circuit Theory
166
A Predetection Diversity Combiner
166
Parametric Amplifiers
166
Network Synthesis
Mechanical Translation
A Compiler-Interpreter for Mechanical Translation
XV.
141
Reaction Time to Consonant-Vowel Syllables in Ensembles
of Various Sizes
Imbedding Gain in RC Networks by Means of Linear
Transformations
XIV.
141
Communications Biophysics
169
169
176
176
177
Judgments of the Loudness of Clicks
177
Human Reaction Time to a Masked Acoustic Stimulus
185
Comment on the "Laplacian" Electrode
186