RLE PROGRESS REPORT
No. 119
JANUARY 1977
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH LABORATORY OF TECHNOLOGY
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02139
The Research Laboratory of Electronics is an interdepartmental
laboratory in which faculty members and graduate students from
numerous academic departments conduct research.
The research in this laboratory for the half-year period ending
December 31, 1976 was made possible by the support extended the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the following agencies.
Joint Services Electronics Program (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy,
U.S. Air Force)
Contract DAAB07-76-C-1400
U.S. Army-Electronics Command
Contract DAAB03-75-C-0489
U.S. Army-Maryland Procurement Office
Contract MDA 904-76-C-0328
Contract MDA 904-76-C-0331
U.S. Navy-Office of Naval Research
Contract N00014-75-C-0951-NR 049-308
Contract N00014-76-C-0605
U.S. Air Force-Electronics Systems Division
Contract F19628-75-C-0122
Contract F19628-76-C-0054
U.S. Air Force-Office of Scientific Research
Contract F44620-72-C-0057
Contract F44620-76-C-0079
Grant AFOSR-76-2894
Grant AFOSR-76-2972
Grant AFOSR-76-3042
Grant AFOSR-77-3143
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Contract NAS5-21980
Contract NAS5-23731
Contract NAS5-22485
Grant NGR 22-009-013
Contract NAS5-22929
Grant NGR 22-009-526
Contract NAS5-23677
National Institutes of Health
Grant 1 PO1 NS13126-01
Grant 5 RO1 GM22633-02
Grant 2 P01 GM19428-04
Grant 5 RO1 GM20370-04
Grant 5 PO1 HL14322-05
Grant 5 RO1 NS04332-14
Grant 1 RO1 GM22547-01
Grant 5 RO1 NS11080-03
Grant 1 RO1 NS11153-01
Grant 5 RO1 NS12307-02
Grant 1 RO1 NS11680-01
Grant 5 SO05 RR07047-11
Grant 1 RO1 NS12846-01
Grant 5 T32 GM07301-02
Grant 1 RO1 NS13028-01
Grant 5 T32 NS07040-02
Grant 2 RO1 NS10916-02
Grant 5 TO1 EY00090-03
Grant 3 RO1 EY01149-03S1
Grant 5 TO1 GM01555-10
National Institute of Mental Health
Grant 5 P01 MH13390-10
National Science Foundation
Grant AST73-05042-A03
Grant ENG75-06242-A01
Grant AST73-05043-A02
Grant ENG76-01654
Grant ENG71-02319-A02
Grant MPS75-04033
Grant ENG74-00131-A02
Grant PHY75-15421-A01
Grant ENG74-03996-A01
Grant SED74-12653-A01
Grant ENG74-24344
U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration
Contract E (11-1) -2766
Contract EY-76-C-02-3070.*000
Associated Press (Grant)
Bell Laboratories (Grant)
California Institute of Technology
Contract 953524
General Instrument Corp.
Harvard University
Subgrant G-79479
Purchase Order J. 24824
Massachusetts General Hospital
Purchase Order F350847
M.I.T. Health Sciences Fund
Grant 76-07
Grant 76-11
M.I.T. Sloan Fund for Basic Research
Providence Gravure Inc.
Williams College
Purchase Order PHY-383N
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH LABORATORY OF ELECTRONICS
RLE PROGRESS REPORT NO. 119
January 1977
Submitted by:
P. A. Wolff
J. Allen
FOREWORD
This report, No. 119 in a series of Progress Reports issued
by the Research Laboratory of Electronics, contains the customary
annual statement of research objectives and summary of research
for each group. Emphasis is on research progress for the halfyear period ending December 31,
1976, and the source of support
is indicated for each project.
Detailed reports of progress for individual projects
longer be included in RLE Progress Reports.
will no
They may, at the
discretion of the research
supervisor, be issued individually as
part of a new numbered series of RLE Research Reports. Persons
interested in receiving reports in a particular field of research
should write the research supervisor or the Document Room,
Research Laboratory of Electronics, M. I. T., Room 36-412.