Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Dynamical System Analysis

From Preface: This is the fourteenth time when the conference “Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications” gathers a numerous group of outstanding scientists and engineers, who deal with widely understood problems of theoretical and applied dynamics. Organization of the conference would not have been possible without a great effort of the staff of the Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics. The patronage over the conference has been taken by the Committee of Mechanics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland. It is a great pleasure that our invitation has been accepted by recording in the history of our conference number of people, including good colleagues and friends as well as a large group of researchers and scientists, who decided to participate in the conference for the first time. With proud and satisfaction we welcomed over 180 persons from 31 countries all over the world. They decided to share the results of their research and many years experiences in a discipline of dynamical systems by submitting many very interesting papers. This year, the DSTA Conference Proceedings were split into three volumes entitled “Dynamical Systems” with respective subtitles: Vibration, Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems; Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Dynamical System Analysis and Engineering Dynamics and Life Sciences. Additionally, there will be also published two volumes of Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics entitled “Dynamical Systems in Theoretical Perspective” and “Dynamical Systems in Applications”

Electron Field Emission from Boron Nitride Thin Films.

A systematic study of electron field emission from boron nitride thin films is presented, establishing nanostructured thin film cubic boron nitride (cBN) as a robust and chemically inert material with a low effective workfunction, able to sustain electron emission in a space plasma environment. RHEED data shows the films as polycrystalline, composed of partially oriented crystallites of cBN with predominantly (001) crystallographic texture relative to the Si substrate. FTIR data showed our films to be overwhelmingly cBN, with a volume fraction greater than 75%. AFM images show nanostructures relevant to field enhancement, with a mean feature height of 79 nm, mean RMS roughness of 19 nm, average grain size of 155 nm2 ±84 nm2, and a mean feature radius of ~7 nm. The results are discussed in the light of current theoretical models for electron field emission, including particulars relevant to semiconductors and nanostructured surfaces. Electron emission thresholds were measured from under 1 V/μm up to just under 20 V/μm in vacuum. Voltage sweep measurements were made both in vacuo and in various gas environments relevant to space applications. Repeatability of emission results was demonstrated, albeit with indications of threshold shifts, possibly due to desorption of adsorbate impurities. Time dependence measurements at constant extraction field show stable field emission over periods of extended operation. An effective barrier height Φw of approximately 9.3meV for the as-grown cBN thin films is measured, based on the application of the generalised Fowler-Nordheim theory to the electron field emission measurements, and employing a model of the film surface as an ensemble of self assembled protruberances in the shape of prolate half ellipsoids of revolution on a flat surface. To our knowledge, this is the first experimental determination of this important parameter for cBN films. It appears that the low value of Φw measured for cBN is a direct consequence of the wide gap nature of the band structure, and is evidence in favor of an NEA-type of emission mechanism in cBN. Overall, the results in this study provide ample motivation for further investigations of cubic boron nitride as a promising field emission material.Ph.D.PhysicsUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/58493/1/pedroe_1.pd

Gratings: Theory and Numeric Applications, Second Revisited Edition

International audienceThe second Edition of the Book contains 13 chapters, written by an international team of specialist in electromagnetic theory, numerical methods for modelling of light diffraction by periodic structures having one-, two-, or three-dimensional periodicity, and aiming numerous applications in many classical domains like optical engineering, spectroscopy, and optical telecommunications, together with newly born fields such as photonics, plasmonics, photovoltaics, metamaterials studies, cloaking, negative refraction, and super-lensing. Each chapter presents in detail a specific theoretical method aiming to a direct numerical application by university and industrial researchers and engineers.In comparison with the First Edition, we have added two more chapters (ch.12 and ch.13), and revised four other chapters (ch.6, ch.7, ch.10, and ch.11

Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995)

The files on this record represent the various databases that originally composed the CD-ROM issue of "Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding" database, which is now part of the Dudley Knox Library's Abstracts and Selected Full Text Documents on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995) Collection. (See Calhoun record https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/57364 for further information on this collection and the bibliography). Due to issues of technological obsolescence preventing current and future audiences from accessing the bibliography, DKL exported and converted into the three files on this record the various databases contained in the CD-ROM. The contents of these files are: 1) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_xls.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.xls: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format; RDFA_Glossary.xls: Glossary of terms, in Excel 97-2003 Workbookformat; RDFA_Biographies.xls: Biographies of leading figures, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format]; 2) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_csv.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.TXT: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in CSV format; RDFA_Glossary.TXT: Glossary of terms, in CSV format; RDFA_Biographies.TXT: Biographies of leading figures, in CSV format]; 3) RDFA_CompleteBibliography.pdf: A human readable display of the bibliographic data, as a means of double-checking any possible deviations due to conversion