Research Publications 2005-2006

Journal Articles:

• E. Bellotti and D. D’Orsogna, “Numerical analysis of HgCdTe simultaneous two-color photovoltaic infrared detectors,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 42, pp. 418-426, April 2006.
• V. Camarchia, M. Goano, G. Ghione, and E. Bellotti, “Theoretical investigation of GaN permeable base transistors for microwave power applications,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 21, pp. 13-18, January 2006.
• A. Dhar, K. S. Johnson, M. R. Novelli, S. G. Bown, I. J. Bigio, L. B. Lovat, and S. L. Bloom, “Elastic scattering spectroscopy for the diagnosis of colonic lesions: initial results of a novel optical biopsy technique,” Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Vol. 63, pp. 258-262, February 2006.
• D. L. Castagner and I. J. Bigio, “Polar nephelometer based on a rotational confocal imaging setup,” Applied Optics, Vol. 45, pp. 2232-2239, April 2006.
• L. B. Lovat, K Johnson, G.D. Mackenzie, B.R. Clark, M.R. Novelli, S. Davies, M. O’Donovan, C. Selvasekar, S.M. Thorpe, D. Pickard, R. Fitzgerald, T. Fearn, I.J. Bigio, and S.G. Bown, “Elastic scattering spectroscopy accurately detects high grade dysplasia and cancer in Barrett’s esophagus,” Gut, May 2006.
• R. Brower and C. I. Tan, “Hard and Soft Collisions in Gauge/String Dualtiy and the Pomeron intercept in Strong Coupling,” International Journal of Modern Physics A20, pp. 4525-4531, July 30, 2005.
• C. S. Kannangara, I. E. G. Richardson, M. Bystrom, J. Solera, Y. Zhao, A. MacLennan, and R. Cooney, “Low Complexity Skip Prediction for H.264 through Lagrangian Cost Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 16, pp. 202-208, February 2006.
• Y. Li, M. Bystrom, D. Yoo, S. M. Goldwasser, and P. Herczfeld, “Coherent Optical Vector Modulation for Fiber Radio Using Electro-Optic Microchip Lasers,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 53, pp. 3121-3129, October 2005.
• Z. He, M. Bystrom, and S. H. Nawab, “Bidirectional Conversion Between DCT Coefficients of Blocks and Their Sub-blocks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, pp. 2835-2841, August 2005.
• S. Ray, J. Carruthers, and D. Starobinski, “Evaluation of the Masked Node Problem in Ad-Hoc Wireless LANs,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 4, pp. 430-442, September/October 2005.
• D. Ruan, H. He, D. A. Castañón, and K. C. Mehta, “Normalized proper orthogonal decomposition (NPOD) for building pressure data compression,” Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol 94, pp. 447-461, February 2006.
• L. Dal Negro, J. H. Yi, L. C. Kimerling, S. Hamel, A. Williamson, and G. Galli, “Light Emission from Silicon-rich nitride Nanostructures,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88, p. 183103, 2006.
• L. Dal Negro, J.H. Yi, J. Michel, L. C. Kimerling, T. W. F. Chang, V. Sukhovatkin, and E. H. Sargent, “Light Emission Efficiency and Dynamics in Silicon-rich Silicon nitride films,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88, p. 233109, 2006.
• L. Dal Negro, Y. H. Yi, M. Hiltunen, J. Michel, L.C. Kimerling, S. Hamel, A.Williamson, G. Galli, T. D. F. Chang, V. Sukhovatkin, and E. H. Sargent, “Light emitting silicon-rich nitride systems and photonic structures,” Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, Vol. 1, pp. 1-21, 2006.
• Y. Gu, T. VanCourt, and M. C. Herbordt, “Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Configurable Circuits,’’ IEEE Proceedings on Computers and Digital Technology, Vol. 153, pp. 189-195, May 2006.
• T. Sugimoto, K. Nonaka, and M. Horenstein, “Bidirectional electrostatic actuator operated with charge control,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 14, pp. 718-24, August 2005.
• F. Chen, H. Cohen, T. Bifano, J. Castle, J. Fortin, C. Kapusta, D. Mountain, A. Zosuls, and A. Hubbard, “A hydromechanical biomimetic cochlea: Experiments and models,” Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, Vol. 119, pp. 394-405, 2006.
• P. Ishwar and P. Moulin, “On the Existence and Characterization of the Maxent Distribution under General Moment Inequality Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 51, pp. 3322–3333, September, 2005.
• W. C. Karl and H. Pien, “High-Resolution Biosensor Spectral Peak Shift Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 12, pp. 4631-4639, December 2005.
• M. Ferencik, J. B. Lisauskas, R. C. Cury, U. Hoffmann, S. Abbara, S. Achenbach, W. C. Karl, T. J. Brady, and R. C. Chan, “Improved vessel morphology measurements in contrast-enhanced multi-detector computed tomography coronary angiography with non-linear post-processing,” European Journal of Radiology, Vol. 57, pp. 380-383, March 2006.
• N. Aggarwal and W. C. Karl, “Line Detection in Images Through Regularized Hough Transform,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 15, pp. 582-591, March 2006.
• I. Honkala, M. G. Karpovsky, and L. B. Levitin, “On Robust and Dynamic Identifying Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 599-613, February 2006.
• M. Ristivojevic and J. Konrad, “Space-time image sequence analysis: object tunnels and occlusion volumes,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 15, pp. 364-376. February 2006.
• J. Konrad and P. Agniel, “Subsampling models and anti-alias filters for 3-D automultiscopic displays,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 15, pp. 128-140, January 2006.
• R. Stasinski and J. Konrad, “POCS reconstruction of irregularly-sampled images based on oversampling and linear space-variant filtering,” Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, Vol. 5, pp. 37-58, January 2006.
• N. Bozinovic and J. Konrad, “Motion analysis in 3D DCT domain and its application to video coding,” Signal Processing: Image Communications, Vol. 20, pp. 510-528, July 2005.
• L. B. Levitin, T. Toffoli, and Z. Walton, “Maximum speed of quantum gate operation,” International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 44, pp. 965-970, July 2005.
• L. B. Levitin and T. Toffoli, “Information between quantum systems via POVM,” International Journal of Theoretical Physics,Vol. 44, pp. 1987-1992, November 2005.
• L. Plucinski, T. Learmonth, K. E. Smith, A. Zakharov, I. Grzegory, T. Suski, S. Porowski, B. J. Kowalski, I. Friel, and T . D. Moustakas,“Resonant Shake-up Satellites in Photoemission at the Ga 3p photothreshold in GaN,” Solid State Communications, Vol. 136, p. 191, August 2005.
• L. Zhou, T. Xu, D. J. Smith, and T. D. Moustakas, “Microstructure of relaxed InN quantum dots grown on GaN buffer layers by Molecular Beam Epitaxy,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88, p. 231906, June 2006.
• T. P. Chen, C. Thomidis, J. Abell, W. Li, and T. D. Moustakas, “Growth of InN Films by RF plasma–assisted MBE and Cluster Beam Epitaxy,” Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 288, p. 254, January 2006.
• J. C. Cabalu, C. Thomidis, I. Friel, T. D. Moustakas, and S. Riyopoulos, “Enhanced internal quantum efficiency and light extraction efficiency from textured GaN/AlGaN quantum wells grown by molecular beam epitaxy,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 99, p. 064904, March 2006. 
• Y. Wang, A. S. Ozcan, K. F. Ludwig Jr., A. Bhattacharyya, T. D. Moustakas, L. Zhou and D. Smith, “Complex and incommensurate ordering in Al0.72 Ga0.28N thin films grown by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 88, p. 181915, May 2006.
• C. J. De Luca, J. J. Buccafusco, S. H. Roy, G. De Luca, and S. H. Nawab, “The Electromyographic Signal as a Presymptomatic Indicator of Organophosphates in the Body,” Muscle & Nerve,  Vol. 33, pp. 369-376, March 2006.
• R. Paiella, “Tunable Surface Plasmons in Coupled Metallo-Dielectric Multiple Layers for Light Emission Efficiency Enhancement,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 87, p. 111104, September 2005. 
• D. Ramirez, M. M. Hayat, S. N. Torres, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, “Information-Theoretic Criterion for the Performance of Single-Photon Avalanche Photodiodes,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 17, pp. 2164-2166, October 2005.
• R. A. Farrer, C. N. LaFratta, L. Li, J. Praino, M. J. Naughton, B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, and J. T. Fourkas, “Selective Functionalization of 3-D Polymer Microstructures,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 128, pp. 1796-1797, January 2006.
• P. Sun, M. M. Hayat, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, “Statistical Correlation of Gain and Buildup Time in APDs and Its Effects on Receiver Performance,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 24, pp. 755-768, February 2006.
• D. A. Ramirez, M. M. Hayat, G. Karve, J. C. Campbell, S. N. Torres, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, “Detection Efficiencies and Generalized Breakdown Probabilities for Nanosecond-Gated Near Infrared Single-Photon Avalanche Photodiodes,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol.42, pp. 137-145, February 2006.
• V. Saligrama, “A Convex Analytic Approach to System Identification,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 50, pp. 1550-1567, October 2005.
• S. Carrasco, M. B. Nasr, A. V. Sergienko, B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, J. P. Torres, and L. Torner, “Broadband Light Generation by Noncollinear Parametric Downconversion,” Optics Letters, Vol. 31, pp. 253-255, January 2006.
• E. M. Blixt, M. Kosch, and J. Semeter, “Relative drift between black aurora and the ionospheric plasma,” Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 23, pp. 1161-1621, 2005.
• J. Semeter, C. J. Heinselman, G. G. Sivjee, H. U. Frey, and J. W. Bonnell, “The ionospheric response to wave-accelerated electrons along the nightside polar cap boundary,” Journal of Geophysical  Research, Vol. 110, A11310, doi:10.1029/2005JA011226, 2006.
• E. M. Blixt, J. Semeter, and N. Ivchenko, “Optical flow analysis of the aurora-borealis,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 3, p. 159, January 2006.
• F. A. Bovino, G. Castagnoli, A. Ekert, P. Horodecki, C. Moura Alves, and A. V. Sergienko, “Direct Measurement of Nonlinear Properties of Bipartite Quantum States,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, p. 240407, December 2005.
• M. Sharif, C. Florens, M. Fazel, and B. Hassibi, “Amplitude and Sign Adjustment for Peak to Average Power Reduction,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, no. 8, pp.1243-1248, August 2005.
• F. De Pellegrini, D. Starobinski, M. Karpovsky, and L. Levitin,
  “Scalable, Distributed Cycle-Breaking Algorithms for Gigabit Ethernet Backbones,” OSA Journal of Optical Networking (Special Feature on Optical Ethernet), Vol. 5, pp. 122-144, February 2006.
• R. Krishnan and D. Starobinski,“Efficient Clustering Algorithms for Self-Organizing Wireless Sensor Networks,” Journal of Ad-Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Vol. 4, pp. 36-59, January 2006.
• S. B. Cronin, Y. Yin, A. G. Walsh, R. B. Capaz, A. Stolyarov, P. Tangney, M. L. Cohen, S. G. Louie, A. K. Swan, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, and M. Tinkham, “Temperature Dependence of the Electronic Transition Energies in Carbon Nanotubes: The Role of Electron-Phonon Coupling and Thermal Expansion,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, pp. 127403-127406, March 31, 2006.
• S. B. Cronin, A. K. Swan, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, M. S. Dresselhaus, and M. Tinkham, “Resonant Raman spectroscopy of individual metallic and semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes under uniaxial strain,” Physical Review B, Vol. 72, p. 035425, July 2005.
• L. Moiseev, M. S. Ünlü, A. K. Swan, B. B. Goldberg, and C. R. Cantor, “DNA Conformation on Surfaces Measured by Fluorescence Self-Interference,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 103, pp. 2623-2628, February 21, 2006.
• Z. Liu, B. B. Goldberg, S. B. Ippolito, A. N. Vamivakas, M. S. Ünlü, and R. P. Mirin, “High resolution, high collection efficiency in numerical aperture increasing lens microscopy of individual quantum dots,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 87, p. 071905, August 2005.
• M. S. Ünlü, D. Huffaker, and T. Baba, “Introduction to the issue on optoelectronic materials and processing and nanostructures,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 11, pp. 1245-1247, November-December 2005.
• A. Yalcin, K. C. Popat, J. C. Aldridge, T. A. Desai, J. Hryniewicz, N. Chbouki, B. E. Little, O. King, V. Van, S. Chu, D. Gill, M. F. Anthes-Washburn, M. S. Ünlü, and B. B. Goldberg, “Optical Sensing of Biomolecules Using Microring Resonators,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 12, pp. 148-155, January/February 2006.