Highly oriented polycrystalline thin films of lithium niobate on (012), (100), and (110) sapphire single crystal substrates, (111) silicon and SiO$\sb2$/(100)Si wafers were grown by magnetron rf sputtering and metallo-organic ...

Near field recording on high coercivity FePt intermetallic compound media using a high Bsat write element was investigated. Untextured FePt media were prepared by magnetron sputtering on ZrO2 disks at a substrate temperature ...

The purpose of this research effort is to develop a mathematical model of the afferent portion mammalian arterial baroreceptor reflex. The entire model is comprised of a small network of Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) type membrane ...

The generation of substantial electrical conductivity in high temperature polymers and thin film C$\sb{60}$ by means of KrF (248 nm) excimer laser irradiation has been investigated. Formation of both laser ablated surface ...

The thesis of this work is that the representation of sensory information in the discharges of single neurons can be characterized by point process models. The work focuses on the encoding of binaural information in the ...

Redundancy in robots is very much an open research area in the field of robotics. As the tasks required of robots become more and more complex, the ability of robots to perform satisfactorily in these applications must ...

Perpendicular recording has the potential to achieve high-density data storage. As the linear density approaches to the superparamagnetic limit, traditional longitudinal recording may give way to perpendicular recording. ...