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This document describes the technical work of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. In this report, you will find that EEEL researchers are developing the world's most advanced sensors, providing advanced gamma ray imagers for astronomical
Christopher L. Holloway, Edward E. Kuester, David R. Novotny
In this paper we illustrate how metafilms (the two-dimensional equivalent of metamaterials) can be used to design novel waveguiding structures. The metafilm waveguide has the capability of being compact, flexible with low material and radiation losses
Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, David R. Novotny, Michael H. Francis, Catherine A. Remley
We examined the electromagnetic emissions, and performance of commercial High-Frequency (HF) proximity Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems including their susceptibility to jamming and eavesdropping. These proximity RFID systems are used in an
William F. Young, Edward E. Kuester, Christopher L. Holloway
Abstract: Emergency responders often experience poor quality wireless communications due to the complex radio-frequency propagation environment encountered at a typical emergency response location, such as an apartment complex, office building, or other
Christopher L. Holloway, John M. Ladbury, Richard Ziolkowski, Peng Jin, Chia-Ching Lin
The paper discusses the analysis and measurements of electrical small antennas. The antennas discussed here are based on antenna designed from metamaterial inspired concepts. An electromagnetic reverberation chamber is used for the test of the antennas. A
Nathan D. Orloff, Ichiro Takeuchi, James C. Booth, Dazhen Gu, Jordi Mateu, C. J. Fennie, K. M. Rabe, W Tian, D.G. Schlom
We explore the frequency dependent permittivity of Ruddlesden-Popper series Sr(n+1)Ti(n)O(3n+1) (n= 1, 2, 3) thin films as a function of temperature and dc electric-field. Interdigitated capacitors and coplanar waveguides are used to extract the frequency
The equivalent source mismatch (GG) of a 1.85 mm coaxial power splitter was characterized using two statistical measurement techniques. The first technique, originally described by Juroshek in reference [1], uses a modified one-port calibration method to
Xilin Shen, Charles Dietlein, Erich N. Grossman, Zoya Popovic, Francois Meyer
Terahertz imaging has been shown to successfully detect objects concealed underneath clothing, by measuring the radiometric temperatures of different objects on a human subject. The goal of this work is to automatically detect and segment concealed objects
Richard Conroy, Gary Zabow, John M. Moreland, Alan P. Koretsky
Inspired by magnetic bubble memory technology, we demonstrate the temporal and spatial manipulation of superparamagnetic beads guided by soft magnetic patterns in a rotating magnetic field. Soft magnetic structures allow complex and repetitive tasks to be
Christopher L. Holloway, David A. Hill, Marco Sandroni, John M. Ladbury, Jason B. Coder, Galen H. Koepke, Andrew C. Marvin
With the proliferation of small electric devices in recent years, along with various other applications, there is a growing need to test and determine the shielding properties or shielding effectiveness (SE) of physically small (but electrically large)
Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, David R. Novotny, Catherine A. Remley, Michael H. Francis
We examined the emissions, and performance of commercial High-Frequency Radio Frequency Identification (HF RFID) systems to interrupt and eavesdropping. These proximity RFID systems are used in an increasing number of financial, identification, and access
Randy Direen, Ronald C. Wittmann, Michael H. Francis
The electromagnetic field within a test volume can be measured using spherical scanning techniques. Characterization of the field within the sphere requires compensation for probe-pattern effects. We provide a simple uncertainty analysis to estimate
We use a set of dihedrals to perform polarimetric calibrations on an indoor RCS measurement range. We obtain simultaneously hh, hv, vh, and vv polarimetric data as the calibration dihedrals rotate about the line-of-site to the radar. We apply Fourier
David R. Novotny, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, Michael H. Francis, Catherine A. Remley
We examined the emissions, and susceptibility of commercial High-Frequency Radio Frequency Identification (HF proximity RFID) systems to interrupt and eavesdropping. RFID systems are being used in an increasing number of financial, identification, and
The probability density function (PDF) for the power received by an arbitrary antenna in a reverberation chamber has been shown to be exponential. The purpose of this correspondence is to provide a direct maximum-entropy derivation of the PDF that deals
We have developed an ultra-sensitive torque magnetometer tailored to the study of thin-film interface magnetism and interlayer magnetic exchange coupling. The magnetometer was composed of an optical-fiber interferometer and a customized silicon cantilever
We present a technique for characterizing and modeling random vector-network-analyzer measurement errors. These errors manifest themselves as random changes or drift of vector-network-analyzer calibration coefficients. We model achange of calibrtion
The processes of merging and splitting dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) are studied in the non-adiabatic, high-density regime. Rich dynamics are found. Depending on the experimental parameters, uniform soliton trains containing more than ten
This paper describes a calibrated broadband emitter for the millimeter-wave through terahertz frequency regime, called the aqueous blackbody calibration source. Due to its extremely high absorption, liquid water is chosen as the emitter on the basis of
Many electromagnetic measurements are based on the relationship between dissipation and fluctuations. As measurement frequencies increase and dimensional scales decrease, an understanding of fluctuations and the effects of nonequilbrium behavior become
Christopher L. Holloway, Luis Nuno, Perry F. Wilson
A very practical susceptibility problem has been analyzed in this paper. It consists of a cable of defined length and fixed terminals, but different layouts, placed in a metallic box with an aperture. The induced voltages for the different layouts are
Galen H. Koepke, Christopher L. Holloway, John M. Ladbury, David A. Hill, Valter Primiani, Paola Russo, Carlo Monteverde
The paper shows the source stirring technique from an experimental point of view. This technique exhibits good statistics for S21. The results illustrate that the field in the cavity has very similar characteristics to the field in a reverberation chamber
Christopher L. Holloway, E Genender, Catherine A. Remley, John M. Ladbury, Galen H. Koepke, H Garbe
Multipath propagation environment effects, such as frequency-selective fading, have a strong impact on the quality of the wireless channel. For example, multipath can impact bit error rate (BER) differently than Gaussian noise. For testing wireless devices
The interference pattern generated by the merging interaction of two Bose-Einstein condensates reveals the coherent, quantum wave nature of matter. An asymptotic analysis of the nonlinear Schr¿odinger equation in the zero dispersion (semi-classical) limit