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2009 IEEE Taxonomy

IEEE Taxonomy: A Subset Hierarchical Display of IEEE Thesaurus Terms

The IEEE Taxonomy comprises the first three hierarchical 'levels' under each term-family (or branch)
that is formed from the top-most terms of the IEEE Thesaurus. In this document these term-families
are arranged alphabetically and denoted by boldface type. Each term family's hierarchy goes to no
more than three sublevels, denoted by indents (grouping of four dots) preceding the next level terms.
A term can appear in more than one hierarchical branch and can appear more than once in any
particular hierarchy. The IEEE Taxonomy is defined in this way so that it is always a subset of the IEEE
Thesaurus.

Aerospace and electronic systems ........Multistatic radar


....Aerospace control ............MIMO radar
........Air traffic control ........Passive radar
........Attitude control ........Radar applications
........Ground support ............Radar countermeasures
....Aerospace engineering ............Radar detection
........Aerospace biophysics ............Radar imaging
........Aerospace electronics ............Radar measurements
........Aerospace safety ............Radar polarimetry
............Air safety ............Radar remote sensing
........Aerospace simulation ............Radar tracking
........Aerospace testing ........Radar clutter
........Satellites ........Radar cross section
............Artificial satellites ........Radar equipment
............Earth Observing System ........Radar theory
............Low earth orbit satellites ........Spaceborne radar
............Moon ........Spread spectrum radar
............Space stations ........Synthetic aperture radar
........Space technology ............Inverse synthetic aperture radar
............Space exploration ............Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar
....Aerospace materials ........Ultra wideband radar
........Aerospace components ....Sensor systems
....Aircraft manufacture ........Gunshot detection systems
....Aircraft navigation ....Sonar
....Aircraft propulsion ........Sonar applications
........Propellers ............Sonar detection
....Command and control systems ............Sonar measurements
....Electronic warfare ........Sonar equipment
........Electronic countermeasures ........Synthetic aperture sonar
........Jamming ....Telemetry
........Radar countermeasures ........Biomedical telemetry
....Military equipment
........Military aircraft
............Payloads Antennas and propagation
........Military satellites ....Antennas
........Weapons ........Antenna accessories
............Guns ........Antenna arrays
............Missiles ............Adaptive arrays
............Nuclear weapons ............Butler matrix
............Projectiles ............Linear antenna arrays
....Radar ............Log periodic antennas
........Airborne radar ............Microstrip antenna arrays
........Bistatic radar ............Microwave antenna arrays
........Doppler radar ............Phased arrays
........Ground penetrating radar ............Planar arrays
........Laser radar ........Antenna radiation patterns
........Meteorological radar ............Near-field radiation pattern
........Millimeter wave radar ........Antenna theory

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............Frequency selective surfaces ........Digital multimedia broadcasting


........Apertures ........Digital video broadcasting
............Aperture antennas ........Radio broadcasting
............Aperture coupled antennas ............Frequency modulation
........Broadband antennas ............Radio networks
............Ultra wideband antennas ........Satellite broadcasting
............Vivaldi antennas ........TV broadcasting
........Dielectric resonator antennas
........Dipole antennas
........Directional antennas Circuits and systems
........Directive antennas ....Circuits
........Feeds ........Active circuits
............Antenna feeds ............Active inductors
........Fractal antennas ............Gyrators
........Helical antennas ............Operational amplifiers
........Horn antennas ........Adders
........Leaky wave antennas ........Analog circuits
........Loaded antennas ............Analog integrated circuits
........Log-periodic dipole antennas ............Analog processing circuits
........Microstrip antennas ........Application specific integrated circuits
........Microwave antennas ............System-on-a-chip
........Mobile antennas ........Asynchronous circuits
........Multifrequency antennas ........Bipolar integrated circuits
........Patch antennas ............BiCMOS integrated circuits
........Radar antennas ........Bipolar transistor circuits
........Receiving antennas ............Bipolar integrated circuits
........Rectennas ........Bistable circuits
........Reflector antennas ............Latches
........Satellite antennas ........Bridge circuits
........Slot antennas ........Charge pumps
........Transmission line antennas ........Circuit analysis
........Transmitting antennas ............Circuit analysis computing
........UHF antennas ............Coupled mode analysis
........Yagi-Uda antennas ............Nonlinear network analysis
....Electromagnetic propagation ........Circuit faults
........Electromagnetic diffraction ............Electrical fault detection
............Optical diffraction ........Circuit noise
............Physical theory of diffraction ............Thermal noise
............X-ray diffraction ........Circuit simulation
........Electromagnetic propagation in absorbing ........Circuit synthesis
media ............High level synthesis
........Electromagnetic reflection ............Integrated circuit synthesis
............Optical reflection ........Coprocessors
........Microwave propagation ........Counting circuits
........Millimeter wave propagation ........Coupling circuits
........Optical propagation ........Digital circuits
............Optical surface waves ............Circuit topology
............Optical waveguides ............Digital integrated circuits
........Propagation constant ........Digital signal processors
........Propagation losses ........Distributed parameter circuits
........Radio propagation ........Driver circuits
........Radiowave propagation ........Electronic circuits
........Submillimeter wave propagation ............Central Processing Unit
........UHF propagation ........Equivalent circuits
....Radio astronomy ........Feedback
............Feedback circuits
............Negative feedback
Broadcast technology ............Neurofeedback
....Broadcasting ........Hybrid integrated circuits
........Digital audio broadcasting ........Integrated circuits
............Digital Radio Mondiale ............Analog integrated circuits
............Digital audio players ............Analog-digital integrated circuits

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............Application specific integrated circuits ........Millimeter wave integrated circuits


............Bipolar integrated circuits ............MIMICs
............CMOS integrated circuits ........Monolithic integrated circuits
............Coprocessors ............MIMICs
............Current mode circuits ............MMICs
............Digital integrated circuits ........Multiplying circuits
............FET integrated circuits ........Nonlinear circuits
............Field programmable gate arrays ............Nonlinear network analysis
............Hybrid integrated circuits ........Passive circuits
............Integrated circuit interconnections ........Phase shifters
............Integrated circuit modeling ............Phase transformers
............Integrated circuit noise ........Power dissipation
............Integrated circuit synthesis ........Power integrated circuits
............Large scale integration ........Printed circuits
............MESFET integrated circuits ............Flexible printed circuits
............Microprocessors ........Programmable circuits
............Microwave integrated circuits ............Field programmable analog arrays
............Millimeter wave integrated circuits ............Programmable logic arrays
............Mixed analog digital integrated circuits ............Programmable logic devices
............Monolithic integrated circuits ........Programmable logic arrays
............Photonic integrated circuits ........Programmable logic devices
............Power integrated circuits ........Pulse circuits
............Radiofrequency integrated circuits ............Flip-flops
............Submillimeter wave integrated circuits ........RLC circuits
............Superconducting integrated circuits ........Radiation detector circuits
............Thick film circuits ........Rail to rail operation
............Thin film circuits ............Rail to rail amplifiers
............Three-dimensional integrated circuits ............Rail to rail inputs
............Through-silicon vias ............Rail to rail outputs
............UHF integrated circuits ........Rectifiers
............Ultra large scale integration ........Sampled data circuits
............Very high speed integrated circuits ........Sequential circuits
............Very large scale integration ........Silicon on insulator technology
............Wafer scale integration ........Submillimeter wave circuits
........Isolators ............Submillimeter wave integrated circuits
........Large scale integration ........Summing circuits
............Ultra large scale integration ........Switched circuits
............Very large scale integration ............Switched capacitor circuits
............Wafer scale integration ........Switching circuits
........Linear circuits ............Choppers
........Logic arrays ............Logic circuits
............Programmable logic arrays ............Switching converters
........Logic circuits ............Zero current switching
............Combinational circuits ............Zero voltage switching
............Logic arrays ........Thick film circuits
............Programmable logic arrays ........Thin film circuits
............Superconducting logic circuits ........Thyristor circuits
........MOSFET circuits ........Time varying circuits
............CMOSFET circuits ........Trigger circuits
............MOS integrated circuits ........UHF circuits
............Power MOSFET ............UHF integrated circuits
........Magnetic circuits ........UHF integrated circuits
........Microprocessors ........Ultra large scale integration
............Automatic logic units ........VHF circuits
............Biomimetics ........Very large scale integration
............Coprocessors ............Neuromorphics
............Microcontrollers ............Wafer scale integration
............Microprocessor chips ........Wafer scale integration
............Vector processors ....Contacts
........Microwave circuits ........Brushes
........Millimeter wave circuits ........Contact resistance
............Millimeter wave integrated circuits ........Ohmic contacts

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....Filtering ............Radio transceivers


........Filters ............Transponders
............Active filters ........Receivers
............Anisotropic ............Optical receivers
............Bragg gratings ............RAKE receivers
............Channel bank filters ............Receiving antennas
............Digital filters ........Repeaters
............Equalizers ........Speech codecs
............Filtering theory ........TV equipment
............Gabor filters ............Large screen displays
............Harmonic filters ............TV receivers
............IIR filters ........Telephone equipment
............Kalman filters ............Cellular phones
............Matched filters ............Telephone sets
............Microstrip filters ............Vocoders
............Nonlinear filters ........Transceivers
............Particle filters ............Radio transceivers
............Power filters ........Transmitters
............Resonator filters ............Auxiliary transmitters
............Spatial filters ............Diversity methods
............Superconducting filters ............Neurotransmitters
............Transversal filters ............Optical transmitters
........Information filtering ............Radio transmitters
............Information filters ............Transmitting antennas
............Recommender systems ........Transponders
....Integrated circuit technology ........Video codecs
........CMOS technology ........Video equipment
............CMOS process ............Video codecs
........Moore's Law ........Vocoders
....Logic devices ....Communication switching
........Logic gates ........Code division multiplexing
........Programmable logic devices ........Electronic switching systems
....Oscillators ........Frame relay
........Digital-controlled oscillators ........Multiprotocol label switching
........Injection-locked oscillators ........Packet switching
........Local oscillators ............Burst switching
........Microwave oscillators ............Frame relay
........Phase noise ............Multiprotocol label switching
........Ring oscillators ....Communication systems
........Voltage-controlled oscillators ........ARPANET
....Single electron devices ........Biomedical communication
........Single electron memory ............Biomedical telemetry
............Hetero-nanocrystal memory ............Telemedicine
........Single electron transistors ........Broadband communication
....Tunable circuits and devices ............B-ISDN
........RLC circuits ............Broadband amplifiers
........Tuned circuits ........Communication networks
............Central office
............Cyberspace
Communications technology ........Communication system control
....Communication equipment ............Telecommunication control
........Auditory displays ........Communication system security
........Codecs ............Radio communication countermeasures
............Speech codecs ........Communication system signaling
............Video codecs ........Communication system software
........Modems ............Streaming media
........Optical communication equipment ........Communication system traffic
............Optical transmitters ........Communication system traffic control
........Radio communication equipment ........Computer networks
............Base stations ............Ad hoc networks
............Ham radios ............Computer network management
............Land mobile radio equipment ............Content distribution networks

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............Cyberspace ............Rician channels


............Diffserv networks ........Metropolitan area networks
............Domain Name System ........Microwave communication
............Ethernet networks ............Rectennas
............Google ........Military communication
............IP networks ............Reconnaissance
............Internet ........Millimeter wave communication
............Intserv networks ........Mobile communication
............Metropolitan area networks ............3G mobile communication
............Multiprocessor interconnection networks ............4G mobile communication
............Network servers ............Ambient networks
............Next generation networking ............Dual band
............Peer to peer computing ............Land mobile radio
............Storage area networks ............Land mobile radio cellular systems
............Token networks ............Mobile radio mobility management
............Unicast ............Software radio
............Virtual private networks ........Molecular communication
............Wide area networks ........Multiaccess communication
........Cross layer design ............Direct-sequence code-division multiple
........Data buses access
............Backplanes ............Frequency division multiaccess
........Data communication ............Multicarrier code division multiple access
............Asynchronous communication ............Subscriber loops
............Asynchronous transfer mode ............Time division multiple access
............Data buses ............Time division synchronous code division
............Telecommunication buffers multiple access
............Telemetry ........Multicast communication
............Teleprinting ............Multicast VPN
........Digital communication ........Multimedia communication
............Baseband ........Narrowband
............DICOM ........Optical fiber communication
............DSL ............FDDI
............Digital audio broadcasting ............Optical buffering
............Digital images ............Optical fiber networks
............Digital multimedia broadcasting ............Optical fiber subscriber loops
............Digital video broadcasting ............Optical interconnections
............ISDN ............Optical packet switching
............Passband ............Optical wavelength conversion
............Portable media players ............SONET
............SONET ............Scheduling algorithm
............Spread spectrum communication ........Personal communication networks
........FDDI ........Protocols
........Facsimile ............Access protocols
........IP networks ............Asynchronous transfer mode
............TCPIP ............Cryptographic protocols
........ISDN ............Master-slave
............B-ISDN ............Multicast protocols
........Indoor communication ............Multiprotocol label switching
............Indoor environments ............Routing protocols
........Internet ............Transport protocols
............Instant messaging ............Wireless application protocol
............Internet telephony ........Quality of service
............Internet topology ............Admission control
............Middleboxes ........Radio communication
............Semantic Web ............Baseband
............Web services ............Bluetooth
........Land mobile radio cellular systems ............Indoor radio communication
............Cellular networks ............Land mobile radio
............Paging strategies ............Land mobile radio cellular systems
........Local area networks ............Packet radio networks
............Wireless LAN ............Passband
........MIMO ............Personal area networks

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............Radio broadcasting ....High-speed electronics


............Radio communication countermeasures ........High speed integrated circuits
............Radio frequency ........High-speed networks
............Radio link ........Ultrafast electronics
............Radio network ....Image communication
............Radio spectrum management ........Facsimile
............Satellite communication ........Picture archiving and communication systems
............Satellite ground stations ....Message systems
............Software radio ........Electronic mail
............Zigbee ............Unified messaging
........Routing ............Unsolicited electronic mail
............Wavelength routing ........Electronic messaging
........Satellite communication ............Instant messaging
............Downlink ............Unified messaging
............Satellite broadcasting ........Postal services
............Satellite ground stations ........Voice mail
........Satellite ground stations ....Modulation
........Submillimeter wave communication ........Amplitude modulation
........Subscriber loops ............Amplitude shift keying
........Switching systems ............Quadrature amplitude modulation
............Electronic switching systems ........Chirp modulation
............Switching frequency ........Demodulation
............Switching loss ........Digital modulation
............Telecommunication switching ............Constellation diagram
........Synchronous digital hierarchy ............Partial response signaling
........Telecommunications ........Frequency modulation
............Ambient intelligence ............Frequency shift keying
............Feedback communications ........Magnetic modulators
............IP networks ........Modulation coding
............Radio access networks ............Interleaved codes
............Railway communication ........Optical modulation
............Telecommunication computing ............Electrooptic modulators
............Telecommunication network topology ............Intensity modulation
............Telecommunication services ........Phase modulation
............Telematics ............Continuous phase modulation
........Teleconferencing ............Differential phase shift keying
........Telegraphy ............Phase shift keying
........Telephony ........Pulse modulation
........Teleprinting ........Pulse width modulation
........Teletext ............Pulse width modulation inverters
........Token networks ............Space vector pulse width modulation
........UHF communication ....Multiplexing
........Underwater communication ........Code division multiplexing
........Videophone systems ........Demultiplexing
........Videotex ........Frequency division multiplexing
........Visual communication ........Multiplexing equipment
........Wide area networks ............Add-drop multiplexers
........Wideband ........OFDM
........Wireless communication ............Multiple access interference
............Cognitive radio ............OFDM modulation
............GSM ............Partial transmit sequences
............Open wireless architecture ............Peak to average power ratio
............Roaming ........Time division multiplexing
............WiMAX ........Wavelength division multiplexing
............Wireless application protocol ............WDM networks
............Wireless networks ....Network topology
........Wireless mesh networks ........Complex networks
........Wireless sensor networks ........Computer network reliability
............Body sensor networks ....Presence network agents
............Event detection ....TV
....Couplers ........Cable TV
........Directional couplers ........Digital TV

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............Analog TV ............Diffusion processes


............HDTV ............Flip chip
............IPTV ............High-K gate dielectrics
........Mobile TV ............Quasi-doping
........Three dimensional TV ............Semiconductor device doping
....UHF technology ............Semiconductor epitaxial layers
........UHF antennas ............Semiconductor growth
........UHF circuits ............Silicidation
............UHF integrated circuits ............Wafer bonding
........UHF communication ....Electronics packaging
........UHF devices ........Chip scale packaging
........UHF integrated circuits ....Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques
....Ultra wideband technology ....Integrated circuit manufacture
........Ultra wideband antennas ........Surface-mount technology
........Ultra wideband communication ....Integrated circuit packaging
........Ultra wideband radar ........Multichip modules
....VHF devices ........Plastic integrated circuit packaging
....Semiconductor device packaging
....Thermal management of electronics
Components, packaging, and manufacturing ........Electronic packaging thermal management
technology ........Electronics cooling
....Component architectures
....Electronic components
........Capacitors Computational and artificial intelligence
............Power capacitors ....Artificial intelligence
............Varactors ........Context awareness
........Coils ........Cooperative systems
............Superconducting coils ........Decision support systems
........Connectors ........Intelligent systems
............Plugs ............Intelligent robots
............Sockets ........Knowledge based systems
........Diodes ............Expert systems
............Diode lasers ............Mobile agents
........Electrodes ........Knowledge engineering
............Anodes ............Inference mechanisms
............Cathodes ............Knowledge acquisition
............Microelectrodes ............Knowledge representation
........Fuses ........Learning
........Inductors ............Distance learning
............Active inductors ............Electronic learning
............Thick film inductors ........Learning systems
............Thin film inductors ............Backpropagation
........Resistors ............Learning automata
............Memristors ............Semisupervised learning
............Switched capacitor networks ............Supervised learning
............Varistors ............Unsupervised learning
........Structural plates ........Machine learning
........Switches ............Boosting
............Contactors ............Statistical learning
............Microswitches ........Prediction methods
............Optical switches ............Linear predictive coding
........Transducers ............Predictive coding
............Acoustic transducers ............Predictive encoding
............Biomedical transducers ............Predictive models
............Chemical transducers ....Autonomous mental development
............Piezoelectric transducers ....Computational intelligence
............Ultrasonic transducer arrays ........Computation theory
....Electronic equipment manufacture ............Computational complexity
........Damascene integration ............Concurrent computing
........Micromachining ............Greedy algorithms
........Radiation hardening ............Support vector machines
........Semiconductor device manufacture ........Evolutionary computation

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............Particle swarm optimization ............Uniform resource locators


........Fuzzy systems ............Web design
............Fuzzy control ............YouTube
............Fuzzy neural networks ........World Wide Web
............Hybrid intelligent systems ............Mashups
........Genetic algorithms ....Computer architecture
....Logic ........Accelerator architectures
........Fuzzy logic ........Data structures
............Fuzzy cognitive maps ............Arrays
............Takagi-Sugeno model ............Binary decision diagrams
........Multivalued logic ............Null value
........Probabilistic logic ............Octrees
........Sufficient conditions ............Table lookup
....Machine intelligence ............Tree data structures
........Pattern analysis ........Dynamic voltage scaling
....Neural networks ........Memory architecture
........Artificial neural networks ........Memory management
............Hebbian theory ........Multiprocessor interconnection
............Self organizing feature maps ............Hypercubes
........Biological neural networks ........Parallel architectures
........Cellular neural networks ............Multicore processing
........Feedforward neural networks ........Reconfigurable architectures
............Multilayer perceptrons ....Computer interfaces
........Multi-layer neural network ........Application programming interface
........Neural network hardware ........Browsers
........Radial basis function networks ........Field buses
........Recurrent neural networks ........Firewire
............Hopfield neural networks ........Haptic interfaces
............Data gloves
............Force feedback
Computers and information processing ............Grasping
....Computer applications ........Hypertext systems
........Application virtualization ........Interface phenomena
........Computer aided analysis ............Network interfaces
........Computer aided engineering ........Interface states
........Computer aided instruction ........System buses
........Computer integrated manufacturing ....Computer networks
........Control engineering computing ........Ad hoc networks
........High energy physics instrumentation computing ............Mesh networks
............Linear particle accelerator ............Mobile ad hoc networks
........Knowledge management ........Computer network management
............Knowledge transfer ............Computer network reliability
........Medical information systems ............Disruption tolerant networking
........Military computing ............Middleboxes
........Physics computing ............Network address translation
........Power engineering computing ............Network synthesis
........Power system analysis computing ........Content distribution networks
........Publishing ........Cyberspace
............Bibliometrics ........Diffserv networks
............Company reports ........Domain Name System
............Desktop publishing ........Ethernet networks
............Electronic publishing ............EPON
............Scientific publishing ........Google
........Scientific computing ........IP networks
........Telecommunication computing ............TCPIP
............Internetworking ........Internet
........Virtual enterprises ............Instant messaging
........Virtual manufacturing ............Internet telephony
............Virtual machining ............Internet topology
........Web sites ............Middleboxes
............Facebook ............Semantic Web
............MySpace ............Web services

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........Intserv networks ............Source coding


........Metropolitan area networks ............Test data compression
........Multiprocessor interconnection networks ............Transform coding
........Network servers ........Data conversion
........Next generation networking ............Analog-digital conversion
........Peer to peer computing ............Digital-analog conversion
........Storage area networks ........Data engineering
........Token networks ........Data handling
........Unicast ............Data assimilation
........Virtual private networks ............Data encapsulation
............Extranets ............Document handling
........Wide area networks ............Merging
....Computer performance ............Sorting
........Computer errors ........Data processing
............Computer crashes ............Associative processing
........Performance loss ............Data analysis
....Computer peripherals ............Data preprocessing
........Disk drives ............Spreadsheet programs
........Keyboards ............Text processing
........Modems ............Virtual enterprises
........Printers ........Data storage systems
....Computer science ........Data warehouses
........Formal languages ....Database machines
............Computer languages ....Digital systems
............Runtime library ........ISDN
........Network theory (graphs) ............B-ISDN
........Programming ........Internet
............Automatic programming ............Instant messaging
............Concatenated codes ............Internet telephony
............Functional programming ............Internet topology
............Integer linear programming ............Middleboxes
............Logic programming ............Semantic Web
............Microprogramming ............Web services
............Object oriented methods ........Local area networks
............Object oriented programming ............Wireless LAN
............Opportunistic software systems development ........Metropolitan area networks
............Parallel programming ........Token networks
............Performance analysis ....Distributed computing
............Programming profession ........Client-server systems
............Robot programming ............Middleware
....Computers ........Collaborative work
........Analog computers ........Diffserv networks
........Calculators ........Distributed databases
............Difference engines ........Distributed information systems
........Microcomputers ............Publish-subscribe
............Portable computers ........Internet
............Workstations ............Instant messaging
........Parallel machines ............Internet telephony
........Supercomputers ............Internet topology
........Wearable computers ............Middleboxes
....Concurrency control ............Semantic Web
........Processor scheduling ............Web services
............Scheduling algorithm ........Metacomputing
....DNA computing ............Grid computing
....Data systems ........Peer to peer computing
........Data acquisition ....File servers
............Fastbus ....Hardware
............User-generated content ........Open source hardware
........Data compression ....High performance computing
............Adaptive coding ....Image processing
............Audio compression ........Active shape model
............Huffman coding ........Feature extraction

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........Gray-scale ........Read only memory


........Image analysis ............PROM
............Image classification ........Read-write memory
............Image motion analysis ........Registers
............Image quality ............Shift registers
............Image sequence analysis ........Scanning probe data storage
............Image texture analysis ........Semiconductor memory
............Object detection ....Mobile computing
............Subtraction techniques ....Molecular computing
........Image coding ....Multitasking
........Image color analysis ........Parametric study
........Image decomposition ....Open systems
........Image denoising ........Physical layer
........Image enhancement ....Optical computing
........Image fusion ....Parallel processing
........Image generation ........Multiprocessing systems
............Plasma displays ............Data flow computing
............Visual effects ............Processor scheduling
........Image recognition ............Systolic arrays
............Image edge detection ........Multithreading
........Image reconstruction ........Parallel algorithms
........Image registration ........Pipeline processing
........Image representation ....Pattern recognition
........Image resolution ........Active shape model
............High-resolution imaging ........Character recognition
............Spatial resolution ........Clustering methods
........Image restoration ............Pattern clustering
........Image sampling ........Data mining
........Image segmentation ............Association rules
........Image sequences ............Data privacy
........Image texture ............Text analysis
........Machine vision ............Text mining
............Object recognition ............Web mining
............Object segmentation ........Face recognition
........Morphological operations ........Fingerprint recognition
........Optical feedback ........Handwriting recognition
........Smart pixels ............Forgery
........Spatial coherence ........Pattern matching
........Table lookup ............Image matching
....Memory ........Speech recognition
........Analog memory ............Automatic speech recognition
........Associative memory ............Speech analysis
........Buffer storage ........Text recognition
............Computer buffers ....Pervasive computing
........Cache memory ........Ubiquitous computing
............Cache storage ............Context-aware services
........Content addressable storage ........Wearable computers
........Flash memory ....Petascale computing
............Flash memory cells ....Platform virtualization
........Magnetic memory ....Quantum computing
............Floppy disks ........Quantum cellular automata
............Hard disks ....Real time systems
........Memory management ....Software
........Nonvolatile memory ........Application software
............Nonvolatile single electron memory ........Embedded software
........Phase change memory ........Open source software
............Phase change random access memory ........Optical character recognition software
........Random access memory ........Software agents
............DRAM chips ............Autonomous agents
............Phase change random access memory ............Intelligent agent
............SDRAM ........Software debugging
............SRAM chips ............Software design

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........Software maintenance
........Software packages
............EMTDC Control systems
............MATLAB ....Automatic control
............PSCAD ....Automatic generation control
............SPICE ....Bidirectional control
........Software performance ....CAMAC
........Software quality ....Centralized control
........Software reusability ....Closed loop systems
........Software safety ....Control design
........Software systems ....Control engineering
........Software tools ....Control equipment
............Authoring systems ........Actuators
........System software ............Electrostatic actuators
............File systems ............Hydraulic actuators
............Operating systems ............Intelligent actuators
............Program processors ............Microactuators
............Utility programs ............Piezoelectric actuators
....Software engineering ............Pneumatic actuators
........Capability maturity model ........Fasteners
........Computer aided software engineering ........Microcontrollers
........Formal verification ........Regulators
........Programming environments ........Servosystems
........Reasoning about programs ............Servomotors
........Runtime ........Switches
............Dynamic compiler ............Contactors
............Runtime environment ............Microswitches
........Software architecture ............Optical switches
............Client server systems ........Switchgear
............Microarchitecture ............Circuit breakers
............Representational state transfer ............Interrupters
........Software libraries ............Relays
....System recovery ........Telecontrol equipment
........Checkpointing ........Thermostats
........Core dumps ....Control system synthesis
........Debugging ....Controllability
....Time sharing computer systems ....Delay systems
....Virtual machine monitors ........Added delay
........Delay lines
....Digital control
Consumer electronics ........Programmable control
....Ambient intelligence ............Flow graphs
....Audio systems ....Distributed control
........Audio-visual systems ........Distributed parameter systems
........Auditory displays ....Feedback
........Headphones ........Feedback circuits
........Loudspeakers ............Output feedback
........Microphones ........Negative feedback
............Microphone arrays ........Neurofeedback
........Portable media players ....Fluid flow control
....Home automation ....Fluidics
........Portable media players ........Microfluidics
........Refrigerators ........Nanofluidics
........Smart homes ....Linear feedback control systems
........Washing machines ........Frequency locked loops
....Home computing ........Phase locked loops
....Low power electronics ........State feedback
....Microwave ovens ........Tracking loops
....Multimedia systems ....Magnetic variables control
........Multimedia communication ....Mechanical variables control
........Multimedia computing ........Displacement control
........Multimedia databases ........Force control

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........Level control ............Capacitors


............Gyroscopes ............Ferroelectric devices
........Motion control ............Piezoelectric devices
............Collision avoidance ............Pyroelectric devices
............Collision mitigation ........Dielectric losses
............Kinetic theory ........Dielectric substrates
............Motion planning ........Dielectrophoresis
............Path planning ........Electrohydrodynamics
............Visual servoing ........Electrokinetics
........Position control ........Electrostriction
............Nanopositioning ....Electric breakdown
........Shape control ........Avalanche breakdown
........Size control ........Corona
........Strain control ........Dielectric breakdown
........Stress control ............Arc discharges
........Thickness control ............Discharges
........Torque control ............Electrostatic discharge
........Velocity control ............Flashover
............Angular velocity control ............Glow discharges
........Vibration control ............Partial discharges
........Weight control ............Surface discharges
....Medical control systems ............Vacuum breakdown
....Moisture control ........Sparks
........Humidity control ....Insulation
....Motion compensation ........Cable insulation
....Networked control systems ............Power cable insulation
....Nonlinear control systems ........Ceramics
....Open loop systems ............Porcelain
....Optical control ........Gas insulation
........Lighting control ............Sulfur hexafluoride
........Optical variables control ........Insulators
....Optimal control ............Metal-insulator structures
........Bang-bang control ............Plastic insulators
........Infinite horizon ............Rubber
....PD control ............Trees - insulation
....Pi control ........Isolation technology
....Pneumatic systems ........Oil insulation
....Pressure control ............Oil filled cables
....Proportional control ........Plastic insulation
....Radio control
....Robot control
........Robot motion Education
....SCADA systems ....Computer science education
....Sensorless control ....Continuing education
....Sliding mode control ........Continuing professional development
....Supervisory control ........Education courses
........SCADA systems ....Educational institutions
....Thermal variables control ....Educational technology
........Temperature control ........Computer aided instruction
............Cooling ........Courseware
............Heating ........Electronic learning
........Thermal analysis ....Engineering education
............Thermomechanical processes ........Biomedical engineering education
....Traffic control ........Communication engineering education
........Queueing analysis ........Control engineering education
........Electrical engineering education
............Electronic engineering education
Dielectrics and electrical insulation ........Engineering students
....Dielectrics ........Power engineering education
........Dielectric constant ........Student experiments
............High-K gate dielectrics ........Systems engineering education
........Dielectric devices ....Physics education

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....Power engineering education ........Interference elimination


....Qualifications ........Interference suppression
....Training ........Intersymbol interference
........Industrial training ........Rain fading
........Management training ........TV interference
........On the job training ........Terrain factors
........Vocational training

Electron devices
Electromagnetic compatibility and interference ....Cathode ray tubes
....Electromagnetic compatibility ....Electron guns
........Immunity testing ....Electron multipliers
........Reverberation chamber ....Electron tubes
....Electromagnetics ........Field emitter arrays
........Electromagnetic analysis ........Klystrons
............Air gaps ........Magnetrons
............Computational electromagnetics ........Thyratrons
............Delay effects ....Mechatronics
............Electromagnetic fields ........Biomechatronics
............Electromagnetic forces ....Microelectromechanical systems
............Electromagnetic refraction ........Microelectromechanical devices
............Permeability ............Microactuators
............Spark gaps ............Micromotors
............Time domain analysis ............Micropumps
........Electromagnetic coupling ............Microvalves
............Mutual coupling ........Radiofrequency microelectromechanical
............Optical coupling systems
........Electromagnetic devices ....Microfluidics
........Electromagnetic induction ....Micromechanical devices
............Eddy currents ........Fluidic microsystems
............Inductive power transmission ....Photoelectricity
........Electromagnetic radiation ........Photovoltaic effects
............Correlators ............Shunt (electrical)
............Electromagnetic wave absorption ....Photovoltaic cells
............Frequency ....Quantum computing
............Gamma rays ........Quantum cellular automata
............Line-of-sight propagation ....Quantum well devices
........Electromagnetic shielding ........Quantum well lasers
............Cable shielding ............Quantum cascade lasers
............Magnetic shielding ........Quantum wells
........Electromagnetic transients ........Two dimensional hole gas
............EMP radiation effects ....Semiconductivity
............EMTDC ....Semiconductor devices
............EMTP ........Flip chip
............Power system transients ........Gunn devices
............Surges ........Hall effect devices
........Proximity effect ........Junctions
....Interference ............Heterojunctions
........Clutter ............Hybrid junctions
........Crosstalk ............P-n junctions
........Diffraction ............Waveguide junctions
........Echo interference ........MIS devices
........Electromagnetic interference ............Charge coupled devices
............Radiofrequency interference ............MOS devices
............Specific absorption rate ........MONOS devices
........Electromagnetic radiative interference ........P-i-n diodes
........Electrostatic interference ........Piezoresistive devices
............Immunity testing ........Power semiconductor devices
........Interchannel interference ............Power transistors
........Interference cancellation ........Power semiconductor switches
........Interference channels ............Bipolar transistors
........Interference constraints ............Thyristors

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........Quantum dots ....Design methodology


........Quantum well lasers ........Design for disassembly
............Quantum cascade lasers ........Design for experiments
........SONOS devices ........Design for manufacture
........Schottky diodes ........Design for quality
........Semiconductor counters ........Design for testability
........Semiconductor device modeling ........Graphics
........Semiconductor device noise ............Animation
........Semiconductor diodes ............Art
............P-i-n diodes ............Character generation
............Schottky diodes ............Computer graphics
............Semiconductor-metal interfaces ............Engineering drawings
............Superluminescent diodes ............Layout
............Varactors ............Shape
........Semiconductor lasers ............Symbols
............Laser tuning ............Virtual reality
............Quantum dot lasers ............Visualization
............Quantum well lasers ........Green design
............Semiconductor laser arrays ........Process design
............Semiconductor optical amplifiers ............Pattern formation
............Surface emitting lasers ........Product design
........Semiconductor waveguides ........Prototypes
........Semiconductor-insulator interfaces ........Technical drawing
........Silicon devices ........Time to market
........Superluminescent diodes ........User centered design
........Surface emitting lasers ........Virtual prototyping
............Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
........Thermistors
........Transistors Engineering - general
............FETs ....Acoustical engineering
............Heterojunction bipolar transistors ....Agricultural engineering
............Millimeter wave transistors ....Chemical engineering
............Phototransistors ....Civil engineering
....Single electron devices ........Railway engineering
........Single electron memory ............Railway safety
............Hetero-nanocrystal memory ........Structural engineering
........Single electron transistors ............Offshore installations
....Thick film devices ....Concurrent engineering
........Thick film inductors ....Design engineering
....Thin film devices ....Electrical engineering
........Film bulk acoustic resonators ........Electrical engineering computing
........Thin film inductors ....Engineering profession
........Thin film transistors ....Maintenance engineering
............Organic thin film transistors ........Predictive maintenance
....Tunneling ........Preventive maintenance
........Gate leakage ............Condition monitoring
........Josephson effect ....Mechanical engineering
........Magnetic tunneling ........Mechanical power transmission
........Resonant tunneling devices ............Torque converters
........Tunneling magnetoresistance ........Mechanical systems
....Vacuum technology ............Mechanical energy
........Photomultipliers ............Micromechanical devices
........Vacuum systems ....Precision engineering
............Gettering ....Production engineering
........Production planning
............Capacity planning
Electronic design automation and methodology ............Materials requirements planning
....Design automation ............Process planning
........CADCAM ....Research and development
........Logic design ....Reverse engineering
............Reconfigurable logic ....Sanitary engineering
........PSCAD ....Standardization

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........Formal specifications ............Genetic expression


........Guidelines ............Genetic programming
........Standards ............Genomics
............ANSI standards ........Microinjection
............Code standards ........Nanobioscience
............Communication standards ............DNA computing
............IEC standards ............Nanobiotechnology
............IEEE standards ........Physiology
............ISO standards ........Predator prey systems
............Measurement standards ........Synthetic biology
............Military standards ........Systematics
............Software standards ........Systems biology
............Standards activities board ........Vegetation
............Standards organizations ............Crops
............Telecommunication standards ............Marine vegetation
............Universal Serial Bus ........Zoology
....Thermal engineering ............Animals
....Biomedical communication
........Biomedical telemetry
Engineering in medicine and biology ........Telemedicine
....Bioinformatics ....Biomedical computing
....Biology ........Biomedical informatics
........Biochemistry ........Medical expert systems
............Amino acids ........Medical information systems
............Biochemical analysis ....Biomedical engineering
............Peptides ........Bioimpedance
............Proteins ........Biological techniques
........Biodiversity ........Biomedical applications of radiation
............Biogeography ........Biomedical electronics
........Bioelectric phenomena ........Biomedical signal processing
............Electric shock ............Biomedical image processing
........Biological cells ........Biotechnology
............Cells (biology) ........Cloning
............Chromosome mapping ........Drug delivery
............Fibroblasts ............Targeted drug delivery
............RNA ........Neural engineering
............Stem cells ............Neural microtechnology
........Biological information theory ............Neural nanotechnology
........Biological processes ............Neural prosthesis
............Biological interactions ........Protein engineering
............Chronobiology ........Tissue engineering
............Circadian rhythm ............Regeneration engineering
............Coagulation ....Biomedical equipment
............Symbiosis ........Biomedical electrodes
........Biological system modeling ........Biomedical telemetry
........Biological systems ........Biomedical transducers
............Anatomy ........Catheters
............Molecular communication ........Cybercare
............Organisms ........Endoscopes
........Biology computing ........Gerontechnology
........Biophotonics ........Handicapped aids
........Biophysics ............Wheelchairs
............Aerospace biophysics ........Hyperdermic needle
............Biomagnetics ........Implantable biomedical devices
............Cellular biophysics ........Implants
............Molecular biophysics ............Auditory implants
........Evolution (biology) ............Brainstem implants
............Phylogeny ............Cochlear implants
........Genetics ............Microelectronic implants
............DNA ........Intracranial pressure sensors
............Gene therapy ........Lithotriptors
............Genetic communication ........Pacemakers

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........Stethoscope ........Medical tests


........Surgical instruments ............Amniocentesis
............Laparoscopes ............Biopsy
....Biomedical imaging ............Cancer detection
........Angiocardiography ............Colonoscopy
........Angiography ............Pregnancy test
........Biomedical optical imaging ........Medical treatment
........Cardiography ............Anesthesia
............Echocardiography ............Angioplasty
............Electrocardiography ............Brachytherapy
........DICOM ............Brain stimulation
........Encephalography ............Cardiology
........Mammography ............Clinical trials
........Medical diagnostic imaging ............Defibrillation
............Anatomical structure ............Dentistry
........Molecular imaging ............Electrical stimulation
........Phantoms ............Electronic medical prescriptions
....Bionanotechnology ............Embolization
....Bioterrorism ............Fibrillation
....Computational biology ............Gastroenterology
........Computational biochemistry ............Gerontology
........Computational biophysics ............Gynecology
........Computational systems biology ............Hepatectomy
....Genetic engineering ............Hospitals
....Medical services ............Hyperthermia
........Catheterization ............Lithotripsy
........Clinical diagnosis ............Magnetic stimulation
........Cybercare ............Neuromuscular stimulation
........Health information management ............Neutron capture therapy
........Hospitals ............Noninvasive treatment
........In vitro ............Oncology
............In vitro fertilization ............Orthopedic procedures
........In vivo ............Orthotics
........Medical conditions ............Pathology
............Aneurysm ............Patient rehabilitation
............Arteriosclerosis ............Pediatrics
............Arthritis ............Pharmaceuticals
............Atrophy ............Surgery
............Blindness ........Occupational medicine
............Cancer ........Prosthetics
............Deafness ............Artificial biological organs
............Diabetes ............Artificial limbs
............Diseases ............Prosthetic hand
............Epilepsy ............Prosthetic limbs
............Hemorrhaging ............Visual prosthesis
............Hypertension ........Public healthcare
............Hyperthermia ........Sensory aids
............Influenza ............Hearing aids
............Injuries ........Vaccines
............Pregnancy ........X-rays
............Retinopathy ............X-ray applications
............Sleep apnea ............X-ray detection
............Thrombosis ............X-ray scattering
............Tumors ............X-ray tomography
........Medical diagnosis ....Nuclear medicine
............Autopsy ....Synthetic biology
............Bronchoscopy
............Colonography
............Computer aided diagnosis Engineering management
............Medical signal detection ....Business
............Plethysmography ........Industrial relations
............Sensitivity and specificity ........Management

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............Asset management ........Stock markets


............Best practices ........Supply and demand
............Business continuity ........Trade agreements
............Business process re-engineering ........Venture capital
............Communication system operations and ........Virtual enterprises
management ....Innovation management
............Content management ....Legal factors
............Contingency management ........Copyright protection
............Contracts ............Software protection
............Customer relationship management ........Law
............Decision making ............Commercial law
............Enterprise resource planning ............Consumer protection
............Financial management ............Contract law
............Governmental factors ............Criminal law
............Human resource management ............Employment law
............Information management ............Forensics
............International collaboration ............Law enforcement
............Knowledge management ............Patent law
............Marketing management ............Trademarks
............Organizational aspects ........Law enforcement
............Outsourcing ........Patents
............Process planning ........Product liability
............Production management ............Warranties
............Project management ........Software protection
............Public relations ........Trademarks
............Quality management ....Market research
............Research and development management ....Product development
............Resource management ........Product customization
............Risk analysis ........Product life cycle management
............Supply chain management ............Prognostics and health management
........Operations research ........Time to market
............Inventory control ....Project engineering
............Virtual enterprises ........Scheduling
........Organizations ............Adaptive scheduling
............BNSC ............Dynamic scheduling
............Companies ............Job shop scheduling
............Government ............Single machine scheduling
............Sociotechnical systems ....Research and development management
....Commercialization ........Innovation management
....Economics ....Research initiatives
........Costs ....Software development management
............Cost benefit analysis ....Technology management
........Econometrics
............Economic forecasting
........Economic indicators Geoscience and remote sensing
............Share prices ....Environmental factors
........Electronic commerce ........Biosphere
........Environmental economics ........Ecosystems
............Carbon tax ........Environmental economics
........Exchange rates ............Carbon tax
........Fuel economy ........Global warming
........International trade ........Green products
........Macroeconomics ............Green buildings
............Privatization ............Green cleaning
........Microeconomics ........Pollution
............Economies of scale ............Air pollution
............Industrial economics ............Industrial pollution
........Monopoly ............Land pollution
........Oligopoly ............Oil pollution
........Power generation economics ............Radioactive pollution
............Electricity supply industry deregulation ............Thermal pollution
........Profitability ............Urban pollution

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............Water pollution ............Ocean temperature


....Geographic Information Systems ............Sea coast
........Gunshot detection systems ............Sea floor
....Geophysical measurement techniques ............Sea level
....Geophysical measurements ............Sea surface
........Geodesy ............Tides
............Level measurement ........Rivers
........Sea measurements ........Sediments
............Geoacoustic inversion ........Soil
........Seismic measurements ............Soil moisture
....Geophysical signal processing ............Soil properties
....Geoscience ............Soil texture
........Antarctica ........Tornadoes
............South Pole ........Tsunami
........Arctic ........Volcanoes
............North Pole ............Planetary volcanoes
........Atmosphere ............Volcanic activity
............Atmospheric modeling ............Volcanic ash
............Atmospheric waves ....Land surface temperature
........Biosphere ....Photometry
........Continents ....Radar
............Africa ........Airborne radar
............Asia ........Bistatic radar
............Australia ........Doppler radar
............Europe ........Ground penetrating radar
............North America ........Laser radar
............South America ........Meteorological radar
........Cyclones ........Millimeter wave radar
............Hurricanes ........Multistatic radar
............Tropical cyclones ............MIMO radar
............Typhoons ........Passive radar
........Earth ........Radar applications
........Earthquakes ............Radar countermeasures
............Earthquake engineering ............Radar detection
........Forestry ............Radar imaging
........Geography ............Radar measurements
............Cities and towns ............Radar polarimetry
............Rural areas ............Radar remote sensing
............Urban areas ............Radar tracking
........Geology ........Radar clutter
............Minerals ........Radar cross section
........Geophysics ........Radar equipment
............EMTDC ........Radar theory
............Extraterrestrial phenomena ........Spaceborne radar
............Geodynamics ........Spread spectrum radar
............Geophysics computing ........Synthetic aperture radar
............Meteorology ............Inverse synthetic aperture radar
............Moisture ............Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar
............Seismology ........Ultra wideband radar
............Surface waves ....Radiometry
............Well logging ........Microwave radiometry
........Ice ........Radiometers
............Ice shelf ............Spectroradiometers
............Ice surface ....Remote sensing
............Ice thickness ........Hyperspectral sensors
............Sea ice ............Hyperspectral imaging
........Lakes ........Passive microwave remote sensing
........Land surface ........Remote monitoring
........Levee ....Terrain mapping
........Meteorological factors ........Digital elevation models
........Oceans ....Terrestrial atmosphere
............Ocean salinity ........Clouds

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........Global warming ............CD-ROMs


........Ionosphere ............Conference proceedings
........Magnetosphere ............Indexes
....Vegetation mapping ............Standards publication
........Standards activities
............Standards development
IEEE organizational topics ............Standards publication
....IEEE activities ........Student activities
........Awards activities ........Technical activities
............Corporate recognition awards ............Conferences
............External awards ............Meetings
............Honorary membership ............Technical Activities Guide - TAG
............Medals ........United States activities
............Prize paper awards ............Career development
............Scholarships ............Continuing education
............Service awards ............Employment
............Student awards ............Ethics
............Technical field awards ............Intellectual property
........Conferences ............Legislation
........Corporate activities ............PACE network
............Calendars ............Public policy
............Ethics ........Volunteer activities
............Finance ............Audit Committee
............Legislation ............Board of Directors Awards Board Committee
............Meetings ............Credentials Committee
............Member relations ............Ethics Committee
............Membership development ............Executive Committee
............Motion-planning ............Fellow Committee
............Planning ............Life Members Committee
............Public relations ............Member Conduct Committee
............Strategic planning ............Nominations and elections
............Technology planning ............Strategic Planning Committee
........Educational activities ............Tellers Committee
............Accreditation ............Women in Engineering Committee
............Career development ....IEEE entities
............Continuing education ........Boards
............Curriculum development ............Board of Directors
............Educational programs ............Educational Activities Board
............Scholarships ............IEEE Press Editorial Board
........Intersociety activities ............IEEE Spectrum Editorial Board
........Local activities ............Member and Geographic Activities Board
........Marketing and sales ............Proceedings Editorial Board
............Advertising ............Publications Board
........Member and Geographic Activities ............Standards Board
............Conferences ............Technical Activities Board
............Meetings ............The Institute Editorial Board
........Nominations and elections ............United States Activities Board
........Organizing ........Center for the History of Electrical Engineering
........Professional activities ............History
............Career development ........Chapters
............Certification ............Student Chapters
............Consortia ........Committees
............Continuing education ............Awards committees
............Employment ............Board committees
............Ethics ........Communities
............Intellectual property ............New Technology Connections Portal
............Legislation ............Online Communities/Technical Collaboration
............Meetings ............Standards Working Groups
............Professional aspects ........Councils
............Public policy ............Accreditation Policy Council
........Publishing activities ............Career Policy Council
............Books ............Geographic Councils

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............IEEE Biometrics Council ............IEEE Industrial Electronics Society


............IEEE Council on Electronic Design ............IEEE Industry Applications Society
Automation ............IEEE Information Theory Society
............IEEE Council on Superconductivity ............IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement
............IEEE Nanotechnology Council Society
............IEEE Sensors Council ............IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
............IEEE Systems Council Society
............IEEE Technology Management Council ............IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
............Lifelong Learning Council ............IEEE Magnetics Society
............Member Activities Council ............IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
............Metropolitan Councils Society
............Nanotechnology Council ............IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
............Operations Council ............IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
............Outreach Council ............IEEE Photonics Society
............Professional Activities Council ............IEEE Power & Energy Society
............Systems Council ............IEEE Power Electronics Society
............Technical Councils ............IEEE Reliability Society
............Technical Field Awards Council ............IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
............Technology Policy Council ............IEEE Signal Processing Society
........IEEE Computer Society Press ............IEEE Social Implications of Technology
........IEEE Foundation Society
........IEEE Press ............IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
........Regions ............IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
............Chapters ............IEEE Technology Management Council
............Region 1 ............IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and
............Region 10 Frequency Control Society
............Region 2 ............IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
............Region 3 ........Student Chapters
............Region 4 ....IEEE governance
............Region 5 ........Bylaws
............Region 6 ........Constitution
............Region 7 ........IEEE Policy and Procedures
............Region 8 ........IEEE Staff
............Region 9 ........Mission and Vision
............Sections ........Organization Charts
............Student Chapters ....IEEE members
........Sections ........Associate members
............Chapters ........Fellows
............Student Chapters ........Joining IEEE
........Societies ............Signup web site
............IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems ........Life members
Society ........Senior members
............IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society ........Student members
............IEEE Broadcast Technology Society ....IEEE news
............IEEE Circuits and Systems Society ........Chapter news
............IEEE Communications Society ........Region news
............IEEE Components, Packaging, and ........Section news
Manufacturing Technology Society ........Society news
............IEEE Computational Intelligence Society ....IEEE products
............IEEE Computer Society ........Audio tapes
............IEEE Consumer Electronics Society ........Catalogs
............IEEE Control Systems Society ............Educational Activities Product Catalog
............IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation ............IEEE Electronic catalog
Society ............IEEE catalog
............IEEE Education Society ............IEEE standards catalog
............IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society ............New products catalog
............IEEE Electron Devices Society ........Conference proceedings
............IEEE Engineering Management Society ........Educational products
............IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology ............Reading series
Society ............Self-study courses
............IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing ............Videos
Society ........IEEE Xplore

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........IEEE standards ............IEEE Systems Journal


............IEEE 1394 Standard ............IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology
............IEEE 802.11 Standards ............IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology
............IEEE 802.15 Standards ............IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical
............IEEE 802.16 Standards Communications and Networking
............IEEE 802.3 Standards ............Proceedings of the IEEE
........IEL ........IEEE magazines
........Merchandise ............IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Society
........Reading series Magazine
........Self-study courses ............IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
........Videos ............IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
....IEEE publications ............IEEE Circuits and Devices
........IEEE conference proceedings ............IEEE Communications Magazine
........IEEE directories ............IEEE Computational Intelligence
............IEEE Membership Directory ............IEEE Computational Science and
............IEEE Staff Directory Engineering
........IEEE indexing ............IEEE Computer Applications in Power
............Awards ............IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
............Book reviews ............IEEE Computer Magazine
............CD-ROM reviews ............IEEE Concurrency
............Editorials ............IEEE Control Systems
............Interviews ............IEEE Design and Test of Computers
............Obituaries ............IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine
............Patents ............IEEE Engineering Management Review
............Software reviews ............IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
............Special issues and sections Magazine
............Tutorials ............IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
............Video reviews ............IEEE Industry Applications Magazine
........IEEE journals ............IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement
............IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Magazine
Computer Engineering ............IEEE Intelligent Systems and their
............IEEE Communications Letters Applications
............IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials ............IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
............IEEE Computer Architecture Letters Magazine
............IEEE Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters ............IEEE Internet Computing
............IEEE Electron Device Letters ............IEEE Micro
............IEEE Embedded Systems Letters ............IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education
............IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Magazine
Systems ............IEEE Multimedia
............IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering ............IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
............IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics ............IEEE Network
............IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation ............IEEE Personal Communications
............IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied ............IEEE Potentials
Earth Observation and Remote Sensing ............IEEE Power Engineering Review
............IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum ............IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
Electronics ............IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
............IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal ............IEEE Software
Processing ............IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine
............IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ............IEEE Spectrum
............IEEE Journal of Technology Computer Aided ............IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Design ............IEEE-USA Today's Engineer
............IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in ........IEEE newsletters
Communications ............Broadcast Technology Society Newsletter
............IEEE Latin America Learning Technologies ............Center for the History of Electrical
Journal [IEEE-RITA] Engineering Newsletter
............IEEE Learning Technology ............Circuits and Systems Society Newsletter
............IEEE Magnetics Letters ............Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing
............IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters Technology Society Newsletter
............IEEE Photonics Journal ............Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter
............IEEE Photonics Technology Letters ............Education Society Newsletter
............IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering ............Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
............IEEE Signal Processing Letters Newsletter

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............Electron Devices Society Newsletter ........IEEE transactions


............Electronics and the Environment Newsletter ............IEEE Biometrics Compendium
............Engineering Management Society Newsletter ............IEEE Latin America Transactions [Revista
............Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IEEE America Latina]
Newsletter ............IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and
............IEEE Circuitboard Electronic Systems
............IEEE Looking Forward ............IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
............IEEE Publications Bulletin ............IEEE Transactions on Antennas and
............Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter Propagation
............Information Theory Society Newsletter ............IEEE Transactions on Applied
............Instrumentation and Measurement Society Superconductivity
Newsletter ............IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and
............Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Newsletter Language Processing
............Magnetics Society Newsletter ............IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
............Microwave Theory and Techniques Society ............IEEE Transactions on Automation Science
Newsletter and Engineering
............Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society ............IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental
Newsletter Development
............Oceanic Engineering Society Newsletter ............IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits
............Power Electronics Society Newsletter and Systems
............Professional Communication Society ............IEEE Transactions on Biomedical
Newsletter Engineering
............Reliability Society Newsletter ............IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
............Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society ............IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I:
Newsletter Fundamental Theory and Applications
............The Institute ............IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
............The Staff Circuit II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing
............Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency ............IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
Control Society Newsletter for Video Technology
............Vehicular Technology Society Newsletter ............IEEE Transactions on Communications
........IEEE online publications ............IEEE Transactions on Components,
............IEEE Bibliographies On-line Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Part A
............IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and ............IEEE Transactions on Components,
Computer Engineering Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Part B
............IEEE Circuitboard ............IEEE Transactions on Components,
............IEEE Communications Interactive Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Part C
............IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials ............IEEE Transactions on Computational
............IEEE Distributed Systems Online Intelligence and AI in Games
............IEEE Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters ............IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided
............IEEE Electronic catalog Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
............IEEE Journal of Technology Computer Aided ............IEEE Transactions on Computers
Design ............IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
............IEEE Journals and Transactions On-LINE - ............IEEE Transactions on Control Systems
OpeRA Technology
............IEEE Latin America Learning Technologies ............IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and
Journal [IEEE-RITA] Electrical Insulation
............IEEE Latin America Transactions [Revista ............IEEE Transactions on Education
IEEE America Latina] ............IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic
............IEEE Learning Technology Compatibility
............IEEE Looking Forward ............IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
............IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education ............IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
Magazine ............IEEE Transactions on Engineering
............IEEE Network Interactive Management
............IEEE Personal Communications Interactive ............IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
............IEEE Photonics Journal Computation
............IEEE Transactions on Computational ............IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Intelligence and AI in Games ............IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
............IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Remote Sensing
............IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ............IEEE Transactions on Haptics
Management ............IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
............IEEE Transactions on Services Computing ............IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
........IEEE standard glossaries ............IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

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............IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics ........Customer service


and Security ........Meeting services
............IEEE Transactions on Information ........Member services
Technology in Biomedicine ............Career development
............IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ............Continuing education
............IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and ............Electronic mail
Measurement ............Financial advantage program
............IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data ............IEEE Bibliographies On-line
Engineering ............IEEE Electronic catalog
............IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies ............Job listing service
............IEEE Transactions on Magnetics ............Membership renewal
............IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics ............Travel services
............IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging ............Web and internet services
............IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and ........Subscriptions
Techniques ........Web and internet services
............IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology ............Electronic mail
............IEEE Transactions on Network and Service ............IEEE Electronic catalog
Management ............IEEE Journals and Transactions On-LINE -
............IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks OpeRA
............IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science ............Online banking
............IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and ....IEEE web sites
Machine Intelligence ........Society home pages
............IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science ........Web page design
............IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
............IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
............IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Imaging
............IEEE Transactions on Professional ....Biomedical imaging
Communication ........Angiocardiography
............IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation ........Angiography
Engineering ........Biomedical optical imaging
............IEEE Transactions on Reliability ........Cardiography
............IEEE Transactions on Robotics ............Echocardiography
............IEEE Transactions on Robotics and ............Electrocardiography
Automation ........DICOM
............IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor ........Encephalography
Manufacturing ........Mammography
............IEEE Transactions on Services Computing ........Medical diagnostic imaging
............IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing ............Anatomical structure
............IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid ........Molecular imaging
............IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ........Phantoms
............IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio ....Cameras
Processing ........Digital cameras
............IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy ....Focusing
............IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and ....Ground penetrating radar
Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans ....Holography
............IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and ....Image converters
Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics ........Image intensifiers
............IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and ....Image sensors
Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews ........Active pixel sensors
............IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, ........CCD image sensors
Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control ........CMOS image sensors
............IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology ........Charge-coupled image sensors
............IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale ........Infrared image sensors
Integration - VLSI ....Image storage
............IEEE Transactions on Visualization and ....Infrared imaging
Computer Graphics ........Night vision
............IEEE Women in Engineering ....Magnetic resonance imaging
............IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking ........Diffusion tensor imaging
........Notice of Violation ....Magneto electrical resistivity imaging technique
....IEEE services ....Microscopy
........Ask IEEE ........Atomic force microscopy
........Conference management ........Electron microscopy

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............Photoelectron microscopy ............Ring generators


............Scanning electron microscopy ........Benchmark testing
............Transmission electron microscopy ........Built-in self-test
........Scanning probe microscopy ........Circuit testing
....Microwave imaging ............Integrated circuit measurements
....Motion pictures ........Electronic equipment testing
....Multispectral imaging ............Immunity testing
....Nuclear imaging ........Error analysis
........Energy resolution ............Bit error rate
....Optical imaging ............Finite wordlength effects
........Talbot effect ........Error-free operation
........Thermoreflectance imaging ........Failure analysis
....Photography ............Equipment failure
........Cinematography ............Semiconductor device breakdown
........Digital photography ........Frequency response
........Photomicrography ........Impulse testing
....Radiation imaging ........Insulator testing
....Radiography ............Insulation testing
........Diagnostic radiography ........Integrated circuit testing
....Stereo vision ............Integrated circuit yield
........Stereo image processing ............Logic testing
....Tomography ........Life testing
........Computed tomography ........Materials testing
........Electrical capacitance tomography ............Accelerated aging
........Positron emission tomography ............Acoustic testing
............Whole-body PET ............Adhesive strength
........Reconstruction algorithms ............Bonding forces
........Single photon emission computed tomography ............Delamination
............Elastic recovery
............Nondestructive testing
Industrial electronics ........Optical fiber testing
....Assembly systems ........Remaining life assessment
........Flexible electronics ........Ring generators
........Robotic assembly ........Semiconductor device testing
....Computer aided manufacturing ........Software testing
........CADCAM ........System testing
........Silicon compiler ........Test equipment
....Cryogenic electronics ............Automatic test equipment
....Industrial control ........Test facilities
........Process control ............Anechoic chambers
............Predictive control ............Laboratories
............Three-term control ............Large Hadron Collider
............Two-term control ............Open area test sites
........Production control ............TEM cells
............Continuous production
............Lot sizing
............Optimized production technology Industry applications
............Scheduling ....Accident prevention
....Integrated manufacturing systems ........Accidents
....Machine control ............Aerospace accidents
........Machine vector control ............Electrical accidents
....Manufacturing automation ............Industrial accidents
........Computer aided manufacturing ............Marine accidents
............CADCAM ............Railway accidents
............Silicon compiler ............Road accidents
........Computer integrated manufacturing ....Chemical technology
........Computer numerical control ........Chemical reactors
........Flexible manufacturing systems ............Bioreactors
....Testing ............Continuous-stirred tank reactor
........Aerospace testing ............Ignition
........Automatic testing ........Chemical sensors
............Automatic test pattern generation ........Crystallizers

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........Distillation equipment ....Industries


........Fluidization ........Agriculture
........Pharmaceutical technology ............Agricultural products
........Vitrification ............Aquaculture
....Cryogenics ............Fertilizers
....Electrochemical devices ............Greenhouses
........Amperometric sensors ............Irrigation
........Batteries ........Architecture
........Battery management systems ........Banking
........Fuel cells ........Beverage industry
........Supercapacitors ........Communication industry
....Electrochemical processes ........Computer industry
....Electromechanical systems ........Construction
........Electromechanical devices ............Buildings
............Armature ............Green buildings
............SAW filters ............Modular construction
....Electrostatic devices ............Prefabricated construction
....Electrostatic precipitators ........Construction industry
....Electrostatic processes ............Prefabricated construction
........Aerosols ........Defense industry
........Electrophotography ........Gas industry
........Electrostatic analysis ........Manufacturing industries
........Electrostatic induction ............Aerospace industry
........Electrostatics ............Cement industry
............Electrostatic levitation ............Ceramics industry
........Particle charging ............Chemical industry
........Particle production ............Clothing industry
........Space charge ............Electrical products industry
........Surface charging ............Electronics industry
............Triboelectricity ............Food industry
........Triboelectricity ............Footwear industry
....Engines ............Fuel processing industries
........Heat engines ............Glass industry
............Steam engines ............Machinery production industries
............Stirling engines ............Metal product industries
........Internal combustion engines ............Plastics industry
............Diesel engines ............Pulp and paper industry
............Ignition ............Rubber industry
........Jet engines ............Shipbuilding industry
....Environmental management ............Textile industry
........Biodegradation ............Toy manufacturing industry
............Biodegradable materials ........Metals industry
........Land use planning ........Mining industry
........Pest control ........Natural gas industry
........Pollution control ........Petroleum industry
........Recycling ............Oil drilling
........Sustainable development ............Oil refineries
........Waste management ............Well logging
............Waste disposal ........Power industry
............Waste handling ............Electrical equipment industry
............Waste recovery ............Electricity supply industry
............Waste reduction ............Nuclear facility regulation
........Water conservation ............Power system interconnection
............Desalination ........Sugar industry
........Water resources ............Sugar refining
............Desalination ........Textile technology
............Reservoirs ............Spinning
....Food technology ............Weaving
........Food preservation ........Toy industry
....High-temperature techniques ........Wood industry
........Rapid thermal processing ....Inspection
....Industrial engineering ........Automatic optical inspection

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....Machinery ........Textile machinery


........Agricultural machinery ............Spinning machines
........Ball bearings ....Manufacturing
........Belts ........Assembly
........Drives ............Fitting
............Hydraulic drives ............Microassembly
............Motor drives ............Preforms
............Variable speed drives ............Soldering
........Electric machines ........Assembly systems
............AC machines ............Flexible electronics
............Alternators ............Robotic assembly
............Brushless machines ........Embossing
............Compressors ........Fabrication
............Conductors ............Bonding processes
............DC machines ............Optical device fabrication
............Electric fences ............Soldering
............Generators ............Welding
............Permanent magnet machines ........Lithography
............Rotating machines ............Colloidal lithography
............Rotors ............Interferometric lithography
............Stators ............Nanolithography
............Washing machines ............Soft lithography
........Fans ............Stereolithography
........Furnaces ............X-ray lithography
............Blast furnaces ........Manufactured products
............Kilns ............Ceramic products
........Gears ............Chemical products
........Hydraulic systems ............Consumer products
............Electrohydraulics ............Electrical products
............Hydraulic equipment ............Food products
........Machine components ............Fuels
............Air cleaners ............Glass products
............Belts ............Mechanical products
............Cams ............Metal products
............Engine cylinders ............Paper products
............Exhaust systems ............Paper pulp
............Impellers ............Plastic products
............Intake systems ............Rubber products
............Manifolds ............Sports equipment
............Mechanical splines ............Textile products
............Pistons ............Windows
............Rotors ........Manufacturing systems
............Shafts ............Agile manufacturing
............Valves ............Automobile manufacture
........Motors ............Batch production systems
............AC motors ............Blanking
............Brushless motors ............Cellular manufacturing
............Commutation ............Flow production systems
............DC motors ............Food manufacturing
............Electric motors ............Forging
............Hysteresis motors ............Glass manufacturing
............Induction motors ............Integrated manufacturing systems
............Micromotors ............Intelligent manufacturing systems
............Permanent magnet motors ............Job production systems
............Servomotors ............Joining processes
............Traction motors ............Layered manufacturing
............Universal motors ............Lean production
........Printing machinery ............Manufacturing processes
........Pumps ............Mass production
............Fuel pumps ............Melt processing
............Heat pumps ............Pulp manufacturing
............Micropumps ............Sheet metal processing

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............Thermoforming ............Suspensions
........Mass customization ............Tires
........Tolerance analysis ............Vents
....Packaging ............Wheels
........Bagging ........Process planning
........Bottling ............Cause effect analysis
........Canning ........Production control
........Encapsulation ............Continuous production
........Labeling ............Lot sizing
........Multichip modules ............Optimized production technology
........Plastic packaging ............Scheduling
........Wrapping ........Production engineering
....Paper technology ............Production planning
....Production ........Production equipment
........Ball milling ............Applicators
........Compression molding ............Clamps
........Embossing ............Cutting tools
........Food products ............Fixtures
............Dairy products ............Machine tools
............Fats ............Mining equipment
............Sugar ............Molding equipment
........Group technology ............Packaging machines
........Injection molding ............Paper making machines
........Materials processing ............Polishing machines
............Annealing ............Soldering equipment
............Bleaching ........Production facilities
............Casting ............Foundries
............Coatings ............Greenhouses
............Curing ............Industrial plants
............Etching ............Machine shops
............Heat treatment ............Paper mills
............Joining processes ........Production management
............Lamination ............Control charts
............Machining ............Inventory management
............Melt processing ............Lead time reduction
............Plasma materials processing ............Logistics
............Pressing ............Process planning
............Punching ............Production planning
............Refining ........Production materials
............Shearing ............Abrasives
............Smelting ............Aerospace materials
............Softening ............Automotive materials
............Swaging ............Inhibitors
........Mechanical products ............Ink
............Automotive components ............Joining materials
............Axles ............Lubricants
............Bellows ............Retardants
............Blades ........Production systems
............Couplings ............Assembly systems
............Fasteners ............Exhaust systems
............Flanges ............Intelligent manufacturing systems
............Gears ............Lean production
............Hoses ............Manufacturing systems
............Machine components ............Steering systems
............Mechanical guides ........Productivity
............Needles ........Shafts
............Orifices ............Camshafts
............Pistons ........Springs
............Seals ........Suspensions
............Springs ............Shock absorbers
............Steering systems ........Transfer molding
............Structural shapes ....Safety

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........Aerospace safety ....Biological information theory


............Air safety ....Channel coding
........Domestic safety ........Block codes
........Emergency services ............Linear code
........Explosion protection ........Combined source channel coding
........Hazards ........Turbo codes
............Biohazards ....Codes
............Chemical hazards ........Binary codes
............Explosions ............Reflective binary codes
............Fires ........Convolutional codes
............Flammability ........Cyclic redundancy check codes
............Floods ........Error correction codes
............Hazardous areas ............Reed-Solomon codes
............Hazardous materials ........Parity check codes
............Toxicology ............Iterative decoding
........Health and safety ........Product codes
............Occupational health ........Space time codes
............Occupational safety ....Communication channels
........Marine safety ........Channel allocation
........Product safety ........Channel capacity
........Protection ........Channel estimation
............Explosion protection ........Channel models
............Lightning protection ........Channel spacing
........Radiation safety ........Channel state information
........Safety devices ........Gaussian channels
............Eye protection ............AWGN channels
............Protective clothing ........Multipath channels
........Vehicle safety ........Multiuser channels
....Security ........Partial response channels
........Access control ........Throughput
............Authorization ........Time-varying channels
........Alarm systems ....Decoding
............Smoke detectors ........Maximum likelihood decoding
........Computer security ....Encoding
............Authentication ........Audio coding
............Computer crime ........Channel coding
............Computer hacking ............Block codes
............Identity management systems ............Combined source channel coding
............Invasive software ............Turbo codes
............Permission ........Entropy coding
........Cryptography ............Huffman coding
............Encryption ........Source coding
............Public key ........Speech coding
............Random number generation ........Transcoding
........Data security ....Error compensation
............Cryptography ....Genetic communication
............Message authentication ....Hamming distance
........Digital signatures ....Hamming weight
........Information security ....Information entropy
............Intrusion detection ....Mutual information
........Power system security ....Network coding
........Reconnaissance ....Rate distortion theory
........Terrorism ........Channel rate control
............Bioterrorism ....Rate-distortion
............National security ....Source coding
........Watermarking ....Speech coding
....Wine industry
........Wineries
Instrumentation and measurement
....Computerized instrumentation
Information theory ....Electric variables
....Audio coding ........Admittance

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........Capacitance ........Acoustic measurements


............Parasitic capacitance ........Antenna measurements
............Quantum capacitance ........Anthropometry
........Capacitance-voltage characteristics ........Area measurement
........Conductivity ........Atmospheric measurements
............Photoconductivity ........Atomic measurements
............Semiconductivity ........Biomedical measurements
............Transconductance ............Biomarkers
........Current ............Biomedical monitoring
............Bioimpedance ............Electroencephalography
............Current slump ............Electromyography
............Dark current ............Electrooculography
............Fault currents ............Electrophysiology
............Leakage current ............Reproducibility of results
............Persistent currents ............Sensitivity and specificity
............Short circuit currents ........Calorimetry
............Threshold current ........Coordinate measuring machines
........Current-voltage characteristics ........Density measurement
........Electric potential ............Hydrometers
........Gain ........Distance measurement
........Impedance ............Euclidean distance
........Impedance matching ........Distortion measurement
........Inductance ............Total harmonic distortion
........Permittivity ........Doppler measurements
........Piezoresistance ........Dosimetry
........Q factor ........Dynamic range
........Resistance ........Electric variables measurement
............Electric resistance ............Admittance measurement
............Piezoresistance ............Ammeters
............Surface resistance ............Attenuation measurement
............Thermal resistance ............Capacitance measurement
............Viscosity ............Conductivity measurement
........Voltage ............Current measurement
............Breakdown voltage ............Dielectric measurements
............Dynamic voltage scaling ............Electrical resistance measurement
............Threshold voltage ............Electrostatic measurements
............Voltage fluctuations ............Energy measurement
........Wiring ............Impedance measurement
....High energy physics instrumentation computing ............Inductance measurement
........Linear particle accelerator ............Partial discharge measurement
....Instruments ............Phasor measurement units
........Compass ............Power measurement
........Goniometers ............Q measurement
........Microscopy ............Transmission line measurements
............Atomic force microscopy ............Voltage measurement
............Electron microscopy ........Electromagnetic measurements
............Scanning probe microscopy ............Electromagnetic modeling
........Oscilloscopes ............Linearity
........Potentiometers ............Microwave measurements
........Pressure gauges ............Millimeter wave measurements
........Probes ............Parameter extraction
........Radiometers ............Polarimetry
............Spectroradiometers ............Radiometry
........Telescopes ............Submillimeter wave measurements
........Theodolites ........Extraterrestrial measurements
........Tuners ........Fluid flow measurement
........Vibrometers ........Frequency measurement
........Voltmeters ............Frequency domain analysis
........Watthour meters ............Frequency estimation
........Wattmeters ........Gain measurement
....Measurement ........Gas chromatography
........Accelerometers ........Geologic measurements

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........Geophysical measurements ............Altimetry


............Geodesy ........Pulse measurements
............Sea measurements ........Reflectometry
............Seismic measurements ........Reproducibility of results
........Interferometry ........Scintillation counters
............Fabry-Perot ............Solid scintillation detectors
............Interferometers ........Semiconductor device measurement
............Optical interferometry ........Sensitivity
............Phase shifting interferometry ............Sensitivity analysis
............Radar interferometry ........Shape measurement
............Radio interferometry ........Size measurement
............Sagnac interferometers ........Software measurement
........Length measurement ............Software metrics
........Lifetime estimation ........Soil measurements
........Loss measurement ........Spectroscopy
........Magnetic variables measurement ............Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
............Magnetic field measurement ............Kirchhoff's Law
............Magnetometers ............MERIS
............Permeability measurement ............Mass spectroscopy
........Measurement by laser beam ............Neutron spin echo
............Laser velocimetry ............Photoacoustic effects
........Measurement techniques ............Resonance light scattering
............Calibration ........Thermal variables measurement
............Dynamic equilibrium ............Temperature measurement
........Measurement uncertainty ........Time measurement
........Measurement units ............Clocks
............Nanometers ............Time dissemination
........Mechanical variables measurement ............Timing
............Angular velocity ........UHF measurements
............Displacement measurement ........Ultrasonic variables measurement
............Force measurement ........Viscosity
............Motion measurement ........Wavelength measurement
............Position measurement ........Wide area measurements
............Rotation measurement ....Monitoring
............Strain measurement ........Computerized monitoring
............Stress measurement ........Patient monitoring
............Thickness measurement ........Radiation monitoring
............Torque measurement ............Radiation dosage
............Velocity measurement ........Remote monitoring
............Vibration measurement ........Surveillance
............Volume measurement ............Infrared surveillance
............Weight measurement ............Video surveillance
........Moisture measurement ....Testing
............Humidity measurement ........Aerospace testing
........Noise measurement ........Automatic testing
............Multiple signal classification ............Automatic test pattern generation
............Noise figure ............Ring generators
............Noise shaping ........Benchmark testing
........Nuclear measurements ........Built-in self-test
............Particle tracking ........Circuit testing
........Optical variables measurement ............Integrated circuit measurements
............Ellipsometry ........Electronic equipment testing
............Photometry ............Immunity testing
............Refractive index ........Error analysis
........Particle beam measurements ............Bit error rate
........Particle measurements ............Finite wordlength effects
........Performance evaluation ........Error-free operation
........Phase measurement ........Failure analysis
........Plasma measurements ............Equipment failure
........Plethysmography ............Semiconductor device breakdown
........Pollution measurement ........Frequency response
........Pressure measurement ........Impulse testing

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........Insulator testing ........Electrooptic deflectors


............Insulation testing ........Electrooptic modulators
........Integrated circuit testing ....Electrooptic effects
............Integrated circuit yield ........Electrochromism
............Logic testing ........Kerr effect
........Life testing ........Optical bistability
........Materials testing ........Stark effect
............Accelerated aging ....Lasers
............Acoustic testing ........Atom lasers
............Adhesive strength ........Chemical lasers
............Bonding forces ........Diode lasers
............Delamination ........Free electron lasers
............Elastic recovery ........Gas lasers
............Nondestructive testing ........Laser applications
........Optical fiber testing ............Dark states
........Remaining life assessment ............Distributed feedback devices
........Ring generators ............Laser ablation
........Semiconductor device testing ............Laser beam cutting
........Software testing ............Laser fusion
........System testing ............Laser theory
........Test equipment ............Magnetooptic recording
............Automatic test equipment ........Laser excitation
........Test facilities ............Optical pumping
............Anechoic chambers ........Laser modes
............Laboratories ............Laser mode locking
............Large Hadron Collider ........Laser stability
............Open area test sites ........Laser transitions
............TEM cells ........Power lasers
........Pump lasers
........Quantum well lasers
Intelligent transportation systems ............Quantum cascade lasers
....Automated highways ........Ring lasers
....Geographic Information Systems ............Fiber lasers
........Gunshot detection systems ........Semiconductor lasers
....Intelligent vehicles ............Laser tuning
....Navigation ............Quantum dot lasers
........Aircraft navigation ............Quantum well lasers
........Course correction ............Semiconductor laser arrays
........Dead reckoning ............Semiconductor optical amplifiers
........Inertial navigation ............Surface emitting lasers
........Marine navigation ........Solid lasers
........Radio navigation ............Microchip lasers
........Satellite navigation systems ............Quantum well lasers
............Global Positioning System ............Semiconductor lasers
............Satellite constellations ............Surface emitting lasers
........Sonar navigation ........Surface emitting lasers
....Transportation ............Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
........Air transportation ........X-ray lasers
............Aircraft ....Optics
............Airports ........Adaptive optics
........Land transportation ........Birefringence
............Rail transportation ........Brightness
............Road transportation ............Brightness temperature
........Vehicles ........Color
............Land vehicles ............Pigmentation
............Remotely operated vehicles ........Electron optics
............Space vehicles ........Extinction coefficients
............Extinction ratio
........Fiber optics
Lasers and electrooptics ............Fiber nonlinear optics
....Electrooptic devices ............Optical fibers
........Electrochromic devices ........Fluorescence

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........Four-wave mixing ............Multiwave mixing


........Geometrical optics ........Optical polarization
............Ray tracing ............Polarization shift keying
........Integrated optics ............Stokes parameters
........Light sources ........Optical pulses
............Electroluminescent devices ........Optical retarders
............Fast light ........Optical saturation
............Luminescent devices ........Optical solitons
............Phosphors ........Optical tuning
............Slow light ........Particle beam optics
............Stray light ............Atom optics
............Superluminescent diodes ............Electron optics
............Ultraviolet sources ............Stimulated emission
........Luminescence ........Photoluminescence
............Bioluminescence ........Physical optics
............Electroluminescence ............Optical refraction
............Fluorescence ............Optical vortices
............Phosphorescence ........Ray tracing
............Photoluminescence ........Stray light
............Thermoluminescence ........Ultrafast optics
........Microoptics ........Whispering gallery modes
............Micromirrors ....Optoelectronic devices
........Nonlinear optics ........Charge-coupled image sensors
............Fiber nonlinear optics ........Integrated optoelectronics
............Nonlinear optical devices ........Light emitting diodes
............Optical mixing ............Inorganic light emitting diodes
............Optical saturation ............LED lamps
............Photorefractive effect ............Organic light emitting diodes
............Raman scattering ............Superluminescent diodes
............Supercontinuum generation ........Photoconducting devices
........Optical amplifiers ............Electrophotography
............Doped fiber amplifiers ........Photodetectors
............Erbium-doped fiber amplifier ............Photodiodes
............Semiconductor optical amplifiers ............Phototransistors
........Optical crosstalk ............Superconducting photodetectors
........Optical design ........Superluminescent diodes
............Optical design techniques ....Photonics
........Optical devices ........Biophotonics
............Bragg gratings ........Microwave photonics
............Collimators ........Nanophotonics
............Displays ........Photochromism
............Holographic optical components ........Photothermal effects
............Lenses ........Spontaneous emission
............Light deflectors ............Radiative recombination
............Lighting
............Luminescent devices
............Mirrors Magnetics
............Optical arrays ....Biomagnetics
............Optical attenuators ........Magnetoencephalography
............Optical collimators ....Demagnetization
............Optical device fabrication ....Gyromagnetism
............Optical filters ....Magnetic analysis
............Optical resonators ........Magnetization
............Optical sensors ....Magnetic anisotropy
............Thermooptical devices ........Magnetic domain walls
........Optical distortion ........Magnetic domains
........Optical fiber applications ........Magnetic moments
............Optical fiber devices ........Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
........Optical harmonic generation ....Magnetic devices
........Optical losses ........Accelerator magnets
........Optical microscopy ........Ferrite devices
........Optical mixing ............Circulators

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........Magnetic cores ....Magnetic susceptibility


............Transformer cores ....Magnetic switching
........Magnetic heads ....Magnetization processes
........Magnetic memory ........Magnetization reversal
............Floppy disks ........Saturation magnetization
............Hard disks ....Magnetoacoustic effects
........Magnetic modulators ....Magnetoelectric effects
........Magnetooptic devices ........Hall effect
........Magnetoresistive devices ........Magnetic tunneling
........Magnetostrictive devices ........Magnetoelectronics
........Solenoids ............Spin polarized transport
........Transformer cores ........Magnetoresistance
........Undulators ............Anisotropic magnetoresistance
....Magnetic fields ............Ballistic magnetoresistance
........Geomagnetism ............Colossal magnetoresistance
........Magnetic reconnection ............Enhanced magnetoresistance
........Magnetic separation ............Extraordinary magnetoresistance
........Magnetostatics ............Giant magnetoresistance
........Toroidal magnetic fields ............Ordinary magnetoresistance
....Magnetic flux ............Tunneling magnetoresistance
........Flux pinning ....Magnetomechanical effects
........Magnetic flux density ........Magnetic field induced strain
........Magnetic flux leakage ........Magnetoelasticity
....Magnetic force microscopy ............Magnetostriction
....Magnetic forces ........Magnetostriction
........Coercive force ....Magnetooptic effects
....Magnetic hysteresis ........Faraday effect
....Magnetic levitation ........Gyrotropism
....Magnetic losses ....Magnets
....Magnetic materials ........Electromagnets
........Amorphous magnetic materials ............Superconducting magnets
........Antiferromagnetic materials ........Micromagnetics
........Diamagnetic materials ........Permanent magnets
........Ferrimagnetic films ....Microwave magnetics
............Ferrite films ....Nonlinear magnetics
............Garnet films ....Remanence
........Ferrimagnetic materials
............Ferrimagnetic films
............Ferrite films Materials, elements, and compounds
............Ferrites ....Chemical elements
............Garnet films ........Carbon
............Garnets ........Cerium
........Ferrite films ........Darmstadtium
........Ferrites ........Hydrogen
............Ferrite films ............Deuterium
........Garnet films ........Isotopes
........Garnets ........Lutetium
............Garnet films ........Nitrogen
........Magnetic films ........Oxygen
............Ferrimagnetic films ........Roentgenium
............Ferrite films ........Tellurium
............Garnet films ........Titanium
........Magnetic liquids ............Titanium alloys
........Magnetic semiconductors ............Titanium compounds
........Magnetic superlattices ........Ytterbium
........Paramagnetic materials ........Zirconium
........Soft magnetic materials ....Compounds
....Magnetic multilayers ........Bismuth compounds
....Magnetic particles ........Gallium compounds
....Magnetic properties ............Aluminum gallium nitride
....Magnetic sensors ............Gallium arsenide
........Spin valves ............Gallium nitride

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............Indium gallium arsenide ............Epoxy resins


........Indium compounds ............High K dielectric materials
............Indium gallium arsenide ............Piezoelectric materials
............Indium tin oxide ........Films
........Inorganic compounds ............Conductive films
........Lead compounds ............Dielectric films
........Organic compounds ............Epitaxial layers
............Carbon compounds ............Ferrimagnetic films
............Organic semiconductors ............Ferrite films
............Volatile organic compounds ............Garnet films
........Silicon compounds ............Magnetic films
............Silicides ............Optical films
............Silicon carbide ............Piezoelectric films
....Material storage ............Plastic films
........Bulk storage ............Polymer films
........Containers ............Semiconductor films
............Freight containers ............Thick films
........Fuel storage ............Thin films
........Secure storage ........Fluids
........Stacking ............Fluid dynamics
........Storage automation ............Gases
........Warehousing ............Liquids
........Water storage ............Viscosity
............Reservoirs ........Hazardous materials
....Materials ........Inorganic materials
........Acoustic materials ........Lacquers
........Additives ........Laminates
........Aggregates ........Magnetic materials
........Amorphous materials ............Amorphous magnetic materials
............Diamond-like carbon ............Antiferromagnetic materials
............Glass ............Diamagnetic materials
........Auxetic materials ............Ferrimagnetic films
........Biological materials ............Ferrimagnetic materials
........Biomedical materials ............Ferrite films
............Bioceramics ............Ferrites
............Biomembranes ............Garnet films
........Building materials ............Garnets
............Asphalt ............Magnetic films
............Concrete ............Magnetic liquids
............Floors ............Magnetic semiconductors
............Mortar ............Magnetic superlattices
............Tiles ............Paramagnetic materials
............Windows ............Soft magnetic materials
........Ceramics ........Material properties
............Porcelain ............Creep
........Composite materials ............Elasticity
........Conducting materials ............Resilience
........Corrosion inhibitors ........Media
........Crystalline materials ............Nonhomogeneous media
............Nanocrystals ............Random media
............Superlattices ........Mesoporous materials
........Crystals ........Metal foam
............Colloidal crystals ........Metamaterials
............Crystal microstructure ........Nanostructured materials
............Crystallography ............Nanocomposites
............Grain boundaries ............Nanoporous materials
............Grain size ........Oils
............Liquid crystals ............Lubricating oils
........Dielectric materials ............Vegetable oils
............Dielectric films ........Optical materials
............Dielectric liquids ............Optical polymers
............Electrets ............Optical retarders

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............Optical superlattices ............Type II superconductors


............Photorefractive materials ........Textiles
........Organic inorganic hybrid materials ............Cotton
........Organic materials ............Fabrics
........Paints ............Textile fibers
........Paper pulp ............Wool
........Petrochemicals ............Yarn
........Phase change materials ........Waste materials
........Photoconducting materials ............Effluents
........Plastics ............Electronic waste
............Epoxy resins ............Industrial waste
............Fiber reinforced plastics ............Radioactive waste
............Plastic films ............Slurries
........Polymer foams ............Wastewater
........Polymer gels ........Wire
........Polymers ....Materials science and technology
............Liquid crystal polymers ........Absorption
............Optical polymers ........Aging
............Polyethylene ............Accelerated aging
............Polyimides ........Chemical analysis
........Production materials ............Activation analysis
............Abrasives ............Chemical processes
............Aerospace materials ............Chemicals
............Automotive materials ............Electronic noses
............Inhibitors ........Contamination
............Ink ............Surface contamination
............Joining materials ........Degradation
............Lubricants ........Filtration
............Retardants ............Microfiltration
........Radioactive materials ........Hysteresis
............Nuclear fuels ........Impurities
............Radioactive decay ............Semiconductor impurities
............Radioactive waste ........Materials handling
........Raw materials ............Cleaning
........Resins ............Decontamination
............Epoxy resins ............Freight handling
........Resists ............Materials handling equipment
........Semiconductor materials ............Remote handling
............Amorphous semiconductors ........Materials preparation
............Elemental semiconductors ............Doping
............Gallium ............Firing
............Gallium arsenide ............Ion implantation
............Germanium ............Laser sintering
............II-VI semiconductor materials ............Sputtering
............III-V semiconductor materials ........Materials reliability
............Indium gallium arsenide ........Materials testing
............Indium phosphide ............Accelerated aging
............Magnetic semiconductors ............Acoustic testing
............Organic semiconductors ............Adhesive strength
............Semiconductor superlattices ............Bonding forces
............Silicon ............Delamination
............Silicon germanium ............Elastic recovery
............Substrates ............Nondestructive testing
............Wide band gap semiconductors ........Microstructure
........Sheet materials ........Periodic structures
........Solids ............Gratings
............Young's modulus ............Photonic crystals
........Superconducting materials ........Pigmentation
............Granular superconductors ............Pigments
............High temperature superconductors ........Separation processes
............Multifilamentary superconductors ............Fractionation
............Niobium-tin ............Particle separators

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........Surface engineering ........Mercury (metals)


........Surfaces ........Metallization
............Corrosion ............Integrated circuit metallization
............Corrugated surfaces ........Neodymium
............Rough surfaces ............Neodymium alloys
............Surface impedance ............Neodymium compounds
............Surface morphology ........Nickel
............Surface resistance ............Nickel alloys
............Surface roughness ........Niobium
............Surface soil ............Niobium alloys
............Surface structures ............Niobium compounds
............Surface tension ........Palladium
............Surface texture ........Platinum
............Surface topography ............Platinum alloys
............Surface treatment ........Rare earth metals
....Metals ........Samarium
........Alloying ............Samarium alloys
............Intermetallic ........Silver
............Shape memory alloys ........Steel
........Aluminum ........Strontium
............Aluminum alloys ............Strontium compounds
............Aluminum compounds ........Tin
........Barium ............Tin alloys
............Barium compounds ............Tin compounds
........Bismuth ........Titanium
........Boron ............Titanium alloys
............Boron alloys ............Titanium compounds
........Cadmium ........Tungsten
............Cadmium compounds ........Yttrium
........Calcium ............Yttrium compounds
............Calcium compounds ........Zinc
........Chromium ............Zinc compounds
............Chromium alloys
........Cobalt
............Cobalt alloys Mathematics
........Copper ....Accuracy
............Copper alloys ....Algebra
............Copper compounds ........Abstract algebra
........Digital alloys ............Galois fields
........Erbium ............Modules (abstract algebra)
........Gallium ........Boolean algebra
............Gallium alloys ............Boolean functions
........Germanium ........Linear algebra
............Germanium alloys ............Linear programming
........Gold ............Matrices
............Gold alloys ............Vectors
........Hafnium ........Set theory
............Hafnium compounds ............Fuzzy set theory
........Indium ............Fuzzy sets
........Iron ............Rough sets
............Cast iron ....Algorithms
............Iron alloys ........Adaptive algorithm
........Lanthanum ............Adaptation model
............Lanthanum compounds ........Algorithm design and analysis
........Lead ........Approximation algorithms
............Lead isotopes ........Backpropagation algorithms
........Lithium ........Basis algorithms
............Lithium compounds ........Change detection algorithms
........Magnesium ........Classification algorithms
............Magnesium compounds ........Clustering algorithms
........Manganese ........Compression algorithms
............Manganese alloys ........Density estimation robust algorithm

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........Detection algorithms ........Integrodifferential equations


........Distributed algorithms ........Maxwell equations
........Dynamic programming ........Nonlinear equations
........Filtering algorithms ............Bifurcation
........Genetic algorithms ........Polynomials
........Heuristic algorithms ........Riccati equations
........Inference algorithms ....Estimation
........Least mean square algorithms ........Estimation error
........MLFMA ........Estimation theory
........Machine learning algorithms ............Cramer-Rao bounds
........Matching pursuit algorithms ............Maximum a posteriori estimation
........Maximum likelihood detection ........Life estimation
........Multicast algorithms ........Maximum likelihood estimation
........Parallel algorithms ........State estimation
........Partitioning algorithms ............Observers
........Prediction algorithms ........Yield estimation
........Projection algorithms ....Euclidean distance
........Pursuit algorithms ........Hilbert space
........Signal processing algorithms ....Finite difference methods
........Software algorithms ....Finite element methods
........Viterbi algorithm ....Fourier series
....Arithmetic ....Functional analysis
........Digital arithmetic ....Geometry
........Fixed-point arithmetic ........Computational geometry
........Floating-point arithmetic ............Fractals
....Azimuth ........Elliptic curves
........Azimuthal angle ........Elliptic design
........Azimuthal component ............Ellipsoids
........Azimuthal current ........Information geometry
........Azimuthal harmonics ........Surface topography
........Azimuthal plane ............Nanotopography
....Boundary value problems ....Gradient methods
........Boundary conditions ....Graph theory
............Upper bound ........Bipartite graph
....Calculus ........Optimal matching
........Differential equations ........Reachability analysis
............Differential algebraic equations ........Shortest path problem
............Green function ........Tree graphs
............Navier-Stokes equations ....Harmonic analysis
............Partial differential equations ....Iterative methods
............Transfer functions ........Expectation-maximization algorithms
........Integral equations ........Iterative algorithms
............Probability density function ............Belief propagation
........Level set ............Iterative closest point algorithm
....Closed-form solution ............Sum product algorithm
....Combinatorial mathematics ....Kernel
........Graph theory ........Null space
............Bipartite graph ....Laplace equations
............Optimal matching ....Lattices
............Reachability analysis ........Lattice Boltzmann methods
............Shortest path problem ....Limit-cycles
............Tree graphs ....Linear matrix inequalities
........Steiner trees ....Linear systems
....Computational efficiency ....Linearization techniques
....Conformal mapping ....Mathematical model
....Convergence ........Mathematical analysis
....Cyclic redundancy check ............Fractional calculus
........Cyclic redundancy check codes ............Modal analysis
....Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions ....Mathematical programming
....Equations ....Minimization
........Boltzmann equation ........Minimization methods
........Difference equations ....Mode matching methods

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....Moment methods ........Bayesian methods


....Network theory (graphs) ............Recursive estimation
....Nonlinear equations ........Error probability
........Bifurcation ........Forecasting
....Nonlinear systems ............Demand forecasting
........Chaos ............Economic forecasting
............Chaotic communication ............Technology forecasting
............Complexity theory ........Memoryless systems
............Spatiotemporal phenomena ........Pairwise error probability
........Nonlinear dynamical systems ........Possibility theory
....Numerical analysis ........Probability distribution
........Adaptive mesh refinement ............Exponential distribution
........Approximation methods ............Log-normal distribution
............Approximation error ............Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
............Chebyshev approximation ............Nakagami distribution
............Curve fitting ........Random variables
............Extrapolation ........Statistical distributions
............Function approximation ............Distribution functions
............Interpolation ............Gaussian distribution
............Least squares approximation ............Weibull distribution
............Linear approximation ........Uncertainty
............Perturbation methods ....Quaternions
........Convergence of numerical methods ....Random processes
........Finite difference methods ........Brownian motion
........Finite element methods ....Root mean square
........Finite volume methods ....Sequences
........Gradient methods ........Binary sequences
........Independent component analysis ........Random sequences
........Iterative methods ....Set theory
............Expectation-maximization algorithms ........Fuzzy set theory
............Iterative algorithms ........Fuzzy sets
........Mode matching methods ........Rough sets
........Moment methods ....Simulated annealing
........Multigrid methods ....Smoothing methods
........Newton method ....Spirals
........Numerical simulation ....Statistics
........Numerical stability ........Adaptive estimation
........Relaxation methods ........Autoregressive processes
........Sparse matrices ........Boltzmann distribution
........Spline ............Lattice Boltzmann methods
........Surface fitting ........Correlation
............Response surface methodology ............Autocorrelation
........Symmetric matrices ........Covariance matrix
........Transmission line matrix methods ........Higher order statistics
....Optimization ........Histograms
........Cost function ........Least squares methods
........Optimal scheduling ............Least mean squares methods
........Optimization methods ............Least squares approximation
............Circuit optimization ........Linear discriminant analysis
............Design optimization ........Maximum likelihood estimation
............Gradient methods ........Mean square error methods
............H infinity control ........Minimax techniques
............Mathematical programming ........Parametric statistics
............Optimized production technology ........Prediction theory
............Pareto optimization ........Root mean square
............Quadratic programming ........Sampling methods
............Simulated annealing ............Compressed sensing
....Piecewise linear techniques ............Nonuniform sampling
........Piecewise linear approximation ........Statistical analysis
....Predator prey systems ............Analysis of variance
....Probability ............Mode matching methods
........Ant colony optimization ............Monte Carlo methods

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............Parameter estimation ............Submillimeter wave integrated circuits


............Pareto analysis ........Submillimeter wave communication
............Principal component analysis ........Submillimeter wave devices
............Regression analysis ............Submillimeter wave filters
........Time series analysis ........Submillimeter wave integrated circuits
....Stochastic processes
........Gaussian processes
........Markov processes Nanotechnology
............Markov random fields ....Bionanotechnology
....Taylor series ....Casimir effect
....Topology ....Molecular computing
....Transforms ....Molecular electronics
........Discrete transforms ....Nanobioscience
............Discrete cosine transforms ........DNA computing
........Fourier transforms ........Nanobiotechnology
............Discrete Fourier transforms ....Nanoelectromechanical systems
............Fast Fourier transforms ....Nanoelectronics
........Karhunen-Loeve transforms ....Nanofabrication
........Poincare invariance ....Nanofluidics
........Wavelet transforms ....Nanolithography
............Biorthogonal modulation ....Nanomaterials
............Continuous wavelet transforms ....Nanopatterning
............Discrete wavelet transforms ........Colloidal lithography
............Wavelet coefficients ....Nanophotonics
............Wavelet packets ....Nanopositioning
....Transmission line matrix methods ....Nanoscale devices
....Uncertain systems ........Nanocontacts
....Utility theory ........Nanotube devices
....Nanostructured materials
........Nanocomposites
Microwave theory and techniques ........Nanoporous materials
....Microwave technology ....Nanostructures
........Beam steering ........Nanoparticles
........Circulators ............Nanocrystals
........Masers ........Nanotubes
............Gyrotrons ............Carbon nanotubes
........Microwave bands ............Semiconductor nanotubes
............K-band ........Nanowires
............L-band ........Semiconductor nanostructures
........Microwave circuits ....Self-assembly
........Microwave communication ........Electrostatic self-assembly
............Rectennas ....Self-replicating machines
........Microwave devices
............Masers
............Microwave amplifiers Nuclear and plasma sciences
............Microwave filters ....Biomedical applications of radiation
............Microwave transistors ....Colliding beam devices
........Microwave generation ........Colliding beam accelerators
............High power microwave generation ........Muon colliders
........Microwave photonics ....Electron emission
........Microwave sensors ........Ballistic transport
....Millimeter wave technology ............Electronic ballasts
........Millimeter wave circuits ....Elementary particles
............Millimeter wave integrated circuits ........Charge carriers
........Millimeter wave communication ............Charge carrier density
........Millimeter wave devices ............Charge carrier lifetime
............Millimeter wave transistors ............Charge carrier mobility
........Millimeter wave integrated circuits ............Charge carrier processes
............MIMICs ............Hot carriers
........Millimeter wave radar ........Electrons
....Submillimeter wave technology ............Electron sources
........Submillimeter wave circuits ............Quantum wells

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............Trions ....Particle beam handling


........Elementary particle exchange interactions ....Particle beam injection
........Elementary particle vacuum ....Plasmas
........Ions ........Atmospheric-pressure plasmas
............Ion sources ........Plasma applications
............Ionization ............Plasma devices
........Mesons ............Plasma immersion ion implantation
........Neutrino sources ............Plasma welding
........Neutrons ............Tokamaks
........Particle beams ........Plasma confinement
............Atomic beams ............Inertial confinement
............Electron beams ............Magnetic confinement
............Ion beams ........Plasma diagnostics
........Particle collisions ........Plasma properties
........Phonons ............Dusty plasma
........Positrons ............Plasma chemistry
........Protons ............Plasma density
....Fusion power generation ............Plasma sheaths
....Fusion reactors ............Plasma stability
........Fusion reactor design ............Plasma temperature
........Tokamaks ............Plasmons
............Tokamak devices ........Plasma simulation
....Gamma rays ........Plasma sources
........Gamma ray bursts ........Plasma transport processes
........Gamma ray detection ....Radiation effects
........Gamma ray effects ........Biological effects of radiation
....Gas discharge devices ........Gamma ray effects
........Glow discharge devices ........Ion radiation effects
....High energy physics instrumentation computing ........Neutron radiation effects
........Linear particle accelerator ....Radiation hardening
....Ion beam applications ....Radiation monitoring
........Ion implantation ........Radiation dosage
............Plasma immersion ion implantation ....Radiation safety
....Ion emission ....Reactor instrumentation
....Nuclear electronics ....Scintillation counters
....Nuclear imaging ........Solid scintillation detectors
........Energy resolution ....Thermionic emission
....Nuclear medicine
....Nuclear physics
........Alpha particles Oceanic engineering and marine technology
........Beta rays ....Marine navigation
........Ignition ....Marine technology
........Ion sources ........Marine equipment
........Isotopes ........Marine transportation
........Nuclear phase transformations ............Marine vehicles
........Nuclear thermodynamics ........Underwater cables
........Relativistic effects ........Underwater communication
....Particle accelerators ........Underwater equipment
........Accelerator magnets ............Rebreathing equipment
........Colliding beam accelerators ........Underwater structures
........Cyclotrons ........Underwater technology
........Electron accelerators ............Underwater communication
........Ion accelerators ............Underwater equipment
........Linear accelerators ............Underwater structures
........Photon collider ....Ocean temperature
........Plasma accelerators ....Oceanographic techniques
........Proton accelerators ....Water pollution
........Storage rings ........Marine pollution
........Synchrocyclotrons
........Synchrotrons
............Synchrotron radiation Power electronics
............Undulators ....Converters

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........Digital-to-frequency converters ........Energy management


........Frequency conversion ............Energy conservation
............Mixers ............Energy efficiency
............Optical frequency conversion ............Load management
........Power conversion ........Energy resources
............AC-DC power converters ............Fuels
............DC-DC power converters ............Geothermal energy
............Matrix converters ............Natural gas
............Power conversion harmonics ............Nuclear fuels
........Pulse width modulation converters ............Solar energy
........Static power converters ............Wind energy
........Wavelength converters ............Wind farms
....Current limiters ........Energy states
........Fault current limiters ............Effective mass
....Inverters ............Orbital calculations
........Pulse inverters ........Energy storage
........Resonant inverters ............Batteries
....Phase control ............Flywheels
....Power conditioning ............Fuel cells
........Power smoothing ............Hydrogen storage
....Power semiconductor devices ............Supercapacitors
........Power transistors ............Superconducting magnetic energy storage
....Power semiconductor switches ....Power engineering
........Bipolar transistors ........Ferroresonance
............Insulated gate bipolar transistors ........High-voltage techniques
............Kirk field collapse effect ........Power engineering computing
........Thyristors ........Power system simulation
............Photothyristors ....Power generation
....Snubbers ........Automatic generation control
....Three-phase electric power ........Cogeneration
........Distributed power generation
........Geothermal power generation
Power engineering and energy ........Hydroelectric power generation
....Electric variables control ............Hydroelectric-thermal power generation
........Current control ............Microhydro power
............Electric current control ............Picohydro power
............Electrical ballasts ........Magnetohydrodynamic power generation
........Gain control ........Nuclear power generation
........Power control ............Fission reactors
........Power system control ............Fusion power generation
............Bidirectional power flow ........Power generation dispatch
............Load flow control ........Power generation planning
............SCADA systems ........Solar power generation
........Reactive power control ............Photovoltaic systems
........Voltage control ........Trigeneration
............Automatic voltage control ........Turbomachinery
....Energy ............Turbines
........Energy barrier ............Turbogenerators
........Energy capture ........Wind energy generation
........Energy consumption ........Wind power generation
........Energy conversion ....Power systems
............Batteries ........Hybrid power systems
............Fuel cells ........Industrial power systems
............Motors ........PSCAD
............Photovoltaic cells ........Power distribution
............Potential well ............Power distribution faults
............Solar heating ............Power distribution lines
............Thermoelectricity ........Power grids
............Waste heat ............Smart grids
........Energy dissipation ........Power supplies
........Energy exchange ............Current supplies
........Energy harvesting ............Emergency power supplies

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............Power demand ............Chemical hazards


............Power quality ............Explosions
............Power system restoration ............Fires
............Switched-mode power supply ............Flammability
............Traction power supplies ............Floods
............Umbilical cable ............Hazardous areas
........Power system analysis computing ............Hazardous materials
........Power system dynamics ............Toxicology
........Power system economics ........Health and safety
........Power system faults ............Occupational health
........Power system harmonics ............Occupational safety
............Power harmonic filters ........Marine safety
........Power system management ........Product safety
............Load flow ........Protection
........Power system measurements ............Explosion protection
............Meter reading ............Lightning protection
........Power system planning ........Radiation safety
............Power demand ........Safety devices
........Power system protection ............Eye protection
............Electrical safety ............Protective clothing
............Substation protection ........Vehicle safety
............Surge protection ....Vehicle crash testing
........Power system reliability
........Power system stability
........Power transmission Professional communication
............Flexible AC transmission systems ....Collaboration
............HVDC transmission ........Collaborative tools
............Inductive power transmission ............Call conference
............Static VAr compensators ............Collaborative software
............Transmission lines ............Videoconference
........Pulse power systems ........Discussion forums
............Pulsed power supplies ........Teamwork
........Reactive power ........Virtual groups
........Substations ....Communication aids
............Substation automation ....Communication effectiveness
............Substation protection ....Communication symbols
........Transformers ........Semiotics
............Current transformers ............Pragmatics
............Flyback transformers ............Semantics
............Instrument transformers ............Syntactics
............Phase transformers ....Context
............Power transformers ....Databases
............Pulse transformers ........Database systems
........Uninterruptible power systems ............Audio databases
............Deductive databases
............Image databases
Product safety engineering ............Indexes
....Consumer protection ............Multimedia databases
....Power system protection ............Object oriented databases
........Electrical safety ............Query processing
............Grounding ........Deductive databases
........Substation protection ........Distributed databases
........Surge protection ........Image databases
............Arresters ............Image retrieval
....Safety ........Multimedia databases
........Aerospace safety ........Object oriented databases
............Air safety ........Relational databases
........Domestic safety ........Spatial databases
........Emergency services ........Transaction databases
........Explosion protection ............Itemsets
........Hazards ........Visual databases
............Biohazards ....Global communication

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........Cross-cultural communication ............Data conversion


........Geographic Information Systems ............Data engineering
............Gunshot detection systems ............Data handling
....Information analysis ............Data processing
........Indexing ............Data storage systems
....Information resources ............Data warehouses
....Information retrieval ........Database systems
........Blogs ............Audio databases
........Content based retrieval ............Deductive databases
........Hypertext systems ............Image databases
........Information filtering ............Indexes
............Information filters ............Multimedia databases
............Recommender systems ............Object oriented databases
........Information rates ............Query processing
........Music information retrieval ........Distributed information systems
........Online services ............Publish-subscribe
........Search engines ........Identity management systems
........Search methods ........Informatics
............Keyword search ............Biomedical informatics
............Metasearch ............Cognitive informatics
............Nearest neighbor searches ........Information architecture
............Search problems ........Information management
............Web search ............Competitive intelligence
........Social network services ............Document handling
............Computer mediated communication ............Information security
............Facebook ............Knowledge transfer
............LinkedIn ........Information processing
............MySpace ............Informatics
............Second Life ........Management information systems
............Twitter ............Portals
............YouTube ........Medical information systems
........Tagging ....Information technology
............Tag clouds ........Information representation
........Taxonomy ........Printing
........Terminology ............Digital printing
........Video sharing ............Teleprinting
............Facebook ........Telematics
............MySpace ........Universal Serial Bus
............YouTube ....Manuals
........Vocabulary ....Oral communication
........Web sites ........Public speaking
............Facebook ........Speech
............MySpace ....Plagiarism
............Uniform resource locators ....Portfolios
............Web design ....Professional societies
............YouTube ....Public speaking
....Information science ....Rhetoric
....Information services ....Writing
........Ask IEEE ........Abstracts
........Dictionaries ........Bibliographies
........Document delivery ........Biographies
............Ask IEEE ............Autobiographies
........Encyclopedias ........Dictionaries
........Libraries ........Documentation
............Software libraries ........Readability metrics
........Teletext ........Resumes
........Videotex ........Reviews
........Wikipedia ........Thesauri
....Information systems
........Data systems
............Data acquisition Reliability
............Data compression ....Availability

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....Fault diagnosis ............End effectors


........Dissolved gas analysis ............Manipulator dynamics
........Fault location ............Micromanipulators
....Fault tolerance ........Medical robotics
........Redundancy ............Rehabilitation robotics
....Fluctuations ........Mobile robots
....Integrated circuit reliability ............Climbing robots
....Maintenance ............Legged locomotion
....Maldistribution ........Orbital robotics
....Materials reliability ........Parallel robots
....Reliability engineering ........Robot control
....Reliability theory ............Robot motion
....Robustness ........Robot kinematics
....Semiconductor device reliability ............Motion analysis
....Software reliability ........Robot programming
....Stability ........Robot sensing systems
........Circuit stability ............Robot vision systems
........Robust stability ............Simultaneous localization and mapping
........Stability analysis ............Tactile sensors
............Stability criteria ........Service robots
........Thermal stability ........Telerobotics
....Telecommunication network reliability ............Teleoperators

Resonance Science - general


....Ferroresonance ....Astronomy
....Magnetic resonance ........Astrophysics
........Nuclear magnetic resonance ........Observatories
........Paramagnetic resonance ........Orbits (stellar)
....Resonance light scattering ........Planets
....Stochastic resonance ............Earth
............Extrasolar planet
............Jupiter
Robotics and automation ............Mars
....Animatronics ............Mercury (planets)
....Automation ............Pluto
........Automated highways ............Saturn
........Automatic generation control ............Sun
........Automatic testing ............Venus
............Automatic test pattern generation ........Radio astronomy
............Ring generators ........Solar system
........Manufacturing automation ............Kuiper belt
............Computer aided manufacturing ........Stellar dynamics
............Computer integrated manufacturing ............Stellar motion
............Computer numerical control ....Biology
............Flexible manufacturing systems ........Biochemistry
........Office automation ............Amino acids
............Workflow management software ............Biochemical analysis
........Storage automation ............Peptides
....Multirobot systems ............Proteins
....Robots ........Biodiversity
........Automata ............Biogeography
............Turing machines ........Bioelectric phenomena
........Cognitive robotics ............Electric shock
........Computer vision ........Biological cells
............Active appearance model ............Cells (biology)
............Face detection ............Chromosome mapping
............Smart cameras ............Fibroblasts
........Educational robots ............RNA
........Humanoid robots ............Stem cells
........Intelligent robots ........Biological information theory
........Manipulators ........Biological processes

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............Biological interactions ........Photoelectricity


............Chronobiology ............Photovoltaic effects
............Circadian rhythm ........Piezoelectricity
............Coagulation ............Piezoelectric effect
............Symbiosis ............Piezoelectric polarization
........Biological system modeling ........Pyroelectricity
........Biological systems ........Thermoelectricity
............Anatomy ............Electrothermal effects
............Molecular communication ............Thermoelectric devices
............Organisms ........Triboelectricity
........Biology computing ....Geoscience
........Biophotonics ........Antarctica
........Biophysics ............South Pole
............Aerospace biophysics ........Arctic
............Biomagnetics ............North Pole
............Cellular biophysics ........Atmosphere
............Molecular biophysics ............Atmospheric modeling
........Evolution (biology) ............Atmospheric waves
............Phylogeny ........Biosphere
........Genetics ........Continents
............DNA ............Africa
............Gene therapy ............Asia
............Genetic communication ............Australia
............Genetic expression ............Europe
............Genetic programming ............North America
............Genomics ............South America
........Microinjection ........Cyclones
........Nanobioscience ............Hurricanes
............DNA computing ............Tropical cyclones
............Nanobiotechnology ............Typhoons
........Physiology ........Earth
........Predator prey systems ........Earthquakes
........Synthetic biology ............Earthquake engineering
........Systematics ........Forestry
........Systems biology ........Geography
........Vegetation ............Cities and towns
............Crops ............Rural areas
............Marine vegetation ............Urban areas
........Zoology ........Geology
............Animals ............Minerals
....Chemistry ........Geophysics
........Astrochemistry ............EMTDC
........Biochemistry ............Extraterrestrial phenomena
............Amino acids ............Geodynamics
............Biochemical analysis ............Geophysics computing
............Peptides ............Meteorology
............Proteins ............Moisture
........Chemical analysis ............Seismology
............Activation analysis ............Surface waves
............Chemical processes ............Well logging
............Chemicals ........Ice
............Electronic noses ............Ice shelf
........Chemical compounds ............Ice surface
............Anti-freeze ............Ice thickness
............Ethanol ............Sea ice
............Methanol ........Lakes
........Inorganic chemicals ........Land surface
........Organic chemicals ........Levee
............Hydrocarbons ........Meteorological factors
........Photochemistry ........Oceans
............Photobleaching ............Ocean salinity
....Electricity ............Ocean temperature

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............Sea coast ............Moisture


............Sea floor ............Seismology
............Sea level ............Surface waves
............Sea surface ............Well logging
............Tides ........Kinetic theory
........Rivers ............Kinetic energy
........Sediments ........Levitation
........Soil ............Electrostatic levitation
............Soil moisture ............Magnetic levitation
............Soil properties ........Lorentz covariance
............Soil texture ........Mechanical factors
........Tornadoes ............Acceleration
........Tsunami ............Aerodynamics
........Volcanoes ............Biomechanics
............Planetary volcanoes ............Damping
............Volcanic activity ............Dynamics
............Volcanic ash ............Fatigue
....Metrology ............Force
....Physics ............Friction
........Acoustics ............Hydrodynamics
............Acoustic applications ............Kinematics
............Acoustic devices ............Lubrication
............Acoustic emission ............Magnetohydrodynamics
............Acoustic noise ............Photoelasticity
............Acoustic propagation ............Pressure effects
............Acoustic pulses ............Shock (mechanics)
............Acoustic waves ............Strain
............Acoustooptic effects ............Stress
............Biomedical acoustics ............Surface cracks
............Cepstral analysis ............Torque
............Music ............Vibrations
............Nonlinear acoustics ............Volume relaxation
............Psychoacoustics ............Workability
............Reverberation ........Network theory (graphs)
............Spectral shape ........Orbits
............Underwater acoustics ........Physics education
........Astrophysics ........Quantum mechanics
........Beams ............Density functional theory
............Acoustic beams ............Lagrangian functions
............Laser beams ............Proton effects
............Molecular beams ............Quantum capacitance
............Optical beams ............Quantum entanglement
............Particle beams ............Relativistic quantum mechanics
........Biophysics ............Schrodinger equation
............Aerospace biophysics ............Stationary state
............Biomagnetics ............Teleportation
............Cellular biophysics ............Tunneling
............Molecular biophysics ........Thermal factors
........Dark energy ............Temperature
........Entropy ............Temperature dependence
........Fluid flow ............Thermal conductivity
............Fluid dynamics ............Thermal expansion
............Hydraulic diameter ............Thermal management
............Hydrology ............Thermal stresses
............Pipelines ............Thermoelasticity
............Valves ............Thermoelectricity
........Geophysics ............Thermolysis
............EMTDC ............Thermooptic effects
............Extraterrestrial phenomena ............Thermoresistivity
............Geodynamics ........Waves
............Geophysics computing ............Atmospheric waves
............Meteorology ............Berry phase

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............Doppler effect ............Sensor fusion


............Electrodynamics ........Sensor systems
............Magnetostatic waves ............Gunshot detection systems
............Matter waves ....Thermal sensors
............Plasma waves ........Temperature sensors
............Propagation ....Thick film sensors
............Reflectivity ....Thin film sensors
............Seismic waves ....Wearable sensors
............Shock waves
............Solitons
............Surface acoustic waves Signal processing
............Wave functions ....Acoustic signal processing
....Sociology ........Active noise reduction
....Thermodynamics ............Echo cancellers
........Isobaric ........Speech processing
........Isothermal processes ............Human voice
............Speech enhancement
............Speech synthesis
Sensors ....Adaptive signal processing
....Acoustic sensors ........Adaptive filters
....Chemical and biological sensors ........Adaptive signal detection
........Biosensors ....Amplifiers
........Gas detectors ........Broadband amplifiers
............Amperometric sensors ........Cavity resonators
....Electromechanical sensors ............Laser cavity resonators
........Microsensors ........Differential amplifiers
....Force sensors ........Distributed amplifiers
....Infrared sensors ........Low-noise amplifiers
....Intelligent sensors ........Operational amplifiers
....Intracranial pressure sensors ............Feedback amplifier
....Ionizing radiation sensors ........Power amplifiers
........Position sensitive particle detectors ............High power amplifiers
........Radiation detectors ............Predistortion
............Bolometers ........Preamplifiers
............Gamma ray detectors ........Pulse amplifiers
............Infrared detectors ........Radiofrequency amplifiers
............Photodetectors ....Array signal processing
............Semiconductor radiation detectors ....Attenuators
............Silicon radiation detectors ........Optical attenuators
........X-ray detectors ....Chirp
....Magnetic sensors ....Convolution
........Spin valves ........Convolvers
....Mechanical sensors ....Decorrelation
........Capacitive sensors ....Digital signal processing
....Multimodal sensors ........Delta modulation
....Optical sensors ............Delta-sigma modulation
........Optical detectors ............Sigma delta modulation
........Optical fiber sensors ........Digital signal processing chips
....Optoelectronic and photonic sensors ....Dispersion
....Sensor phenomena and characterization ........Chromatic dispersion
....Sensor systems and applications ........Optical fiber dispersion
........Detectors ....Distortion
............Envelope detectors ........Acoustic distortion
........Electric sensing devices ........Four-wave mixing
........Leak detection ........Jitter
........Radiofrequency identification ............Timing jitter
............RFID tags ........Nonlinear distortion
........Robot sensing systems ............Harmonic distortion
............Robot vision systems ............Intermodulation distortion
............Simultaneous localization and mapping ........Phase distortion
............Tactile sensors ....Error correction
........Sensor arrays ........Forward error correction

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....Fading ........Video signal processing


........Frequency-selective fading channels ............Video coding
........Rayleigh channels ............Video compression
........Weibull fading channels ....Noise
....Filters ........1f noise
........Active filters ........Additive noise
............Band pass filters ............AWGN
............Low pass filters ............Additive white noise
........Anisotropic ........Colored noise
........Bragg gratings ........Gaussian noise
............Fiber gratings ............AWGN
........Channel bank filters ........Laser noise
........Digital filters ............Laser feedback
............Finite impulse response filter ........Low-frequency noise
........Equalizers ........Noise cancellation
............Adaptive equalizers ........Phase noise
............Blind equalizers ........Signal to noise ratio
............Decision feedback equalizers ............PSNR
........Filtering theory ........Superconducting device noise
........Gabor filters ........White noise
........Harmonic filters ............AWGN
........IIR filters ....Optical signal processing
........Kalman filters ........Laser noise
........Matched filters ............Laser feedback
........Microstrip filters ....Optical wavelength conversion
........Nonlinear filters ....Phase locked loops
........Particle filters ....Pulse compression methods
........Power filters ........Optical pulse compression
............Spurline ....Pulse shaping methods
........Resonator filters ........Optical pulse shaping
........Spatial filters ....Quantization
........Superconducting filters ........Vector quantization
........Transversal filters ....RF signals
....Frequency locked loops ....Radar signal processing
....Geophysical signal processing ....Recording
....Limiting ........Audio recording
....Modulation ........Digital recording
........Amplitude modulation ........Disk recording
............Amplitude shift keying ........Magnetic recording
............Quadrature amplitude modulation ............Digital magnetic recording
........Chirp modulation ............Heat-assisted magnetic recording
........Demodulation ............Magnetic noise
........Digital modulation ............Magnetooptic recording
............Constellation diagram ............Perpendicular magnetic recording
............Partial response signaling ........Optical recording
........Frequency modulation ............CD recording
............Frequency shift keying ........Video recording
........Magnetic modulators ............High definition video
........Modulation coding ....Signal analysis
............Interleaved codes ........Discrete event systems
........Optical modulation ........Harmonic analysis
............Electrooptic modulators ........Parameter estimation
............Intensity modulation ............Amplitude estimation
........Phase modulation ............Direction of arrival estimation
............Continuous phase modulation ............Frequency estimation
............Differential phase shift keying ............Motion estimation
............Phase shift keying ............Phase estimation
........Pulse modulation ............Time of arrival estimation
........Pulse width modulation ........Signal mapping
............Pulse width modulation inverters ........Spectral analysis
............Space vector pulse width modulation ............Infrared spectra
....Multidimensional signal processing ............Judd-Ofelt theory

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............Spectroradiometers ............Privacy
....Signal design ........Technology transfer
....Signal detection ............Small business technology transfer
........Acoustic signal detection
............Sonar detection
........Motion detection Solid state circuits
........Multiuser detection ....Circuit subsystems
........Optical signal detection ....Circuit theory
........Phase detection ....FET circuits
............Phase frequency detector ........FET integrated circuits
........Radar detection ............Field effect MMICs
....Signal generators ............MESFET integrated circuits
........Noise generators ........JFET circuits
........Pulse generation ............JFET integrated circuits
............Optical pulse generation ........MESFET circuits
....Signal reconstruction ............MESFET integrated circuits
........Signal denoising ........MODFET circuits
....Signal resolution ............MODFET integrated circuits
........Diversity reception ........MOSFET circuits
....Signal restoration ............CMOSFET circuits
....Signal sampling ............MOS integrated circuits
....Signal synthesis ............Power MOSFET
....Source separation ....Gate leakage
........Blind source separation ....Solid state circuit design
....Spectrogram ....Transistors
....Tracking loops ........FETs
............CNTFETs
............Double-gate FETs
Social implications of technology ............HEMTs
....Cultural differences ............JFETs
....Environmental factors ............MESFETs
........Biosphere ............MISFETs
........Ecosystems ............MODFETs
........Environmental economics ............MOSFETs
............Carbon tax ............MOSHFETs
........Global warming ............OFETs
........Green products ............Schottky gate field effect transistors
............Green buildings ............Thin film transistors
............Green cleaning ........Heterojunction bipolar transistors
........Pollution ............Double heterojunction bipolar transistors
............Air pollution ........Millimeter wave transistors
............Industrial pollution ........Phototransistors
............Land pollution
............Oil pollution
............Radioactive pollution Superconductivity
............Thermal pollution ....Bean model
............Urban pollution ....Critical current
............Water pollution ........Critical current density
....Ethical aspects ....Flux pinning
....Globalization ....Superconducting devices
....International relations ........Josephson junctions
....Peace technology ........SQUIDs
....Philosophical considerations ........Superconducting coils
....Social factors ........Superconducting magnets
........Demography ........Superconducting microwave devices
........Technology social factors ........Superconducting photodetectors
............Privacy ....Superconducting filaments and wires
....Sustainable development ....Superconducting films
....Technology ........Superconducting thin films
........Appropriate technology ....Superconducting integrated circuits
........Technological innovation ....Superconducting magnetic energy storage
........Technology social factors ....Superconducting materials

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........Granular superconductors ........Fault detection


........High temperature superconductors ........Fault tolerant systems
............Yttrium barium copper oxide ........Interconnected systems
........Multifilamentary superconductors ........Large-scale systems
........Niobium-tin ........Lyapunov method
........Type II superconductors ........Open systems
....Superconducting transition temperature ............Physical layer
........Petri nets
........Robust control
Systems engineering and theory ........Scalability
....Adaptive systems ........Scattering parameters
........Adaptive control ........Sequential analysis
........Line enhancers ........Sequential diagnosis
........Multiagent systems ........Software prototyping
........Variable structure systems ........System performance
....Hierarchical systems ............Cooperative caching
........Multilevel systems ........System-level design
....Modeling ........Time factors
........Analytical models ............Continuous time systems
........Atmospheric modeling ............Discrete time systems
........Brain modeling ............Time invariant systems
........Computational modeling ............Time varying systems
............Computational cultural modeling ....Systems engineering education
........Context modeling
........Data models
........Deformable models Systems, man, and cybernetics
........Digital elevation models ....Behavioral science
........Emulation ........Animal behavior
........Graphical models ........Cognition
........Green's function methods ........Consumer behavior
........Hidden Markov models ........Psychiatry
........Input variables ............Mental disorders
........Integrated circuit modeling ........Psychology
............Cutoff frequency ............Industrial psychology
........Inverse problems ............Mood
............Deconvolution ............Psychometric testing
........Load modeling ....Biological control systems
........Metamodeling ........Biomarkers
........Numerical models ............Molecular biomarkers
........Object oriented modeling ....Computational linguistics
........Power system modeling ....Cybernetics
............Load modeling ........Adaptive systems
........Semiconductor device modeling ............Adaptive control
........Semiconductor process modeling ............Line enhancers
........Signal representations ............Multiagent systems
........Simulation ............Variable structure systems
............Computer simulation ........Cognitive informatics
............Digital simulation ........Cognitive science
............Medical simulation ............Problem-solving
........Solid modeling ........Control theory
........System identification ............Control nonlinearities
....Multidimensional systems ............Observability
....Reduced order systems ........Decision theory
....Stochastic systems ............Decision trees
....System analysis and design ........Econophysics
........Asymptotic stability ........Emergent phenomena
........Control system analysis ........Intelligent control
............State-space methods ............Feedforward systems
........Diakoptics ............Neurocontrollers
........Distributed processing ........Linear feedback control systems
............Message passing ............Frequency locked loops
........Distributed vision networks ............Phase locked loops

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............State feedback Vehicular and wireless technologies


............Tracking loops ....Automotive engineering
....Ergonomics ........Automotive applications
........Job design ........Automotive electronics
....Human factors ........Power steering
........Anthropomorphism ........Vehicle crash testing
....Identification of persons ........Vehicle detection
........Biometrics ........Vehicle driving
............Iris recognition ........Vehicle dynamics
........Face recognition ........Vehicle safety
........Fingerprint recognition ....Land mobile radio equipment
........Handwriting recognition ........Mobile antennas
............Forgery ....Navigation
........Speaker recognition ........Aircraft navigation
........Speech recognition ........Course correction
............Automatic speech recognition ........Dead reckoning
............Speech analysis ........Inertial navigation
....Man machine systems ........Marine navigation
........Interactive systems ........Radio navigation
....Natural languages ........Satellite navigation systems
........Natural language processing ............Global Positioning System
............Morphology ............Satellite constellations
....Pervasive computing ........Sonar navigation
........Ubiquitous computing ....Propulsion
............Context-aware services ........Aircraft propulsion
........Wearable computers ............Propellers
....Posthuman ........Electromagnetic launching
....Teleworking ............Coilguns
....Transhuman ............Railguns
....User interfaces ........Electrothermal launching
........Audio user interfaces ........Rockets
........Brain computer interfaces ....Vehicles
........Data visualization ........Land vehicles
............Isosurfaces ............Bicycles
........Emotion recognition ............Electric vehicles
........Exoskeletons ............Road vehicles
........Graphical user interfaces ........Remotely operated vehicles
............Avatars ............Unmanned aerial vehicles
........Human computer interaction ........Space vehicles
........Human robot interaction ............Space shuttles
........Smart cards ....Wireless sensor networks
Ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control ........Body sensor networks
....Ferroelectric materials ........Event detection
........Ferroelectric films
........Relaxor ferroelectrics
....Frequency control
........Automatic frequency control
........Tunable circuits and devices
............RLC circuits
............Tuned circuits
........Tuning
............Laser tuning
............Optical tuning
............Tuners
....Piezoelectricity
........Piezoelectric effect
........Piezoelectric polarization
....Pyroelectricity
....Ultrasonic imaging
........Ultrasonography
............Sonogram
....Ultrasonic transducers

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