We have demonstrated the capabilities of scanning microwave microscopy (SMM) technique for measuring ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectra in nanometric areas magnetic samples. The is evaluated using three different samples, including a yttrium iron garnet (YIG) polycrystalline bulk sample and thick YIG film grown by liquid phase epitaxy (LPE). Patterned permalloy (Py) micromagnetic dots been c...

The QCD vacuum in which we live, which has the familiar hadrons as its excitations, is but one phase of QCD, and far from the simplest one at that. One way to better understand this phase and the nonperturbative dynamics of QCD more generally is to study other phases and the transitions between phases. We are engaged in a voyage of exploration, mapping the QCD phase diagram as a function of tem...

Since its introduction acoustic beamforming has imposed itself as the principal technique for the mapping of acoustic sources in the far field. Even if some decades have passed since it was firstly used, important limitations still remain at the state of the art. In particular, the main shortcomings are relative to three aspects. The first one is the beamformer resolution capability, that stric...

We analyzed the sequence of ventricular emptying using the phase image in 10 patients with accessory pathways and in 15 normal subjects. In normal subjects, the earliest emptying occurred in ventricular septal, apical and left basal segments. Eight patients had manifest preexcitation; the earliest emptying occurred ectopically in the right ventricle in one of these patients and in the left vent...

This paper describes a new method for estimating formant frequencies. It operates in two phases. The first phase, which is similar to a technique developed by Talkin [JASA, vol. 82, S1], finds optimal formant track estimates by imposing frequency continuity constraints using Dynamic Programming (DP). DP is used to select a mapping of candidate frequencies to formant frequencies in oral sonorant...

Advanced techniques such as the Small Baseline Subset Algorithm (SBAS) have been developed for terrain motion mapping in non-urban areas with a focus on extracting information from distributed scatterers (DSs). SBAS uses small baseline differential interferograms (to limit the effects of geometric decorrelation) and these are typically multilooked to reduce phase noise, resulting in loss of res...