The deep submicron semiconductor technologies will make the worst-case design impossible, since they can not provide design margins that it requires. Research directions should go to typical-case design methodologies, where designers are focusing on typical cases rather than worrying about very rare worst cases. They enable to eliminate design margins as well as to tolerate parameter variations...

Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is a powerful method for analyzing elemental, chemical, dielectric, and other information. The technique can be extended to produce quantitative images useful for interpreting the spatial distribution of this information. This paper describes an implementation of a new method of quantitative mapping...

We study fractional variability as a function of energy from black-hole X-ray binaries on timescales from milliseconds to hundreds of seconds. We build a theoretical model of energydependent variability in which the X-ray energy spectrum varies in response to a changing physical parameter. We compare these models to rms spectra obtained from RXTE PCA observations of black-hole binaries XTE J155...

We derive the spectrum and thermodynamics of the 1D supersymmetric t-J model with long range hopping and spin exchange using a set of maximal spin eigenstates. This spectrum confirms the recent conjecture that the asymptotic Bethe-ansatz spectrum is exact. By empirically determining the spinon degeneracies of each state, we are able to explicitly construct the free energy.

In this thesis, the performance criteria for the objective comparison of different classes of single-degree-of-freedom oscillators under stochastic excitation are developed. For each family of oscillators, these objective criteria take into account the maximum possible energy harvested for a given response level, which is a quantity that is directly connected to the size of the harvesting confi...