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IBM Journal of Research and Development  
Volume 44, Number 5, 2000
Research contributions by NACME Scholars
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Recent publications by IBM authors

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oJournals are listed alphabetically by title; papers are listed sequentially for each journal.

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Performance Degradation of Small Silicon Devices Caused by Long-Range Coulomb Interactions, M. V. Fischetti (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) and S. E. Laux, Applied Physics Letters 76, No. 16, 2277­2279 (2000).

High-Quality Strain-Relaxed SiGe Alloy Grown on Implanted Silicon-on-Insulator Substrate, F. Y. Huang (IBM Corporation, Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533) et al., Applied Physics Letters 76, No. 19, 2680­2682 (2000).

Local Transport and Trapping Issues in Al2O3 Gate Oxide Structures, R. Ludeke (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Applied Physics Letters 76, No. 20, 2886­2888 (2000).

Metallic Adhesion Forces and Tunneling Between Atomically Defined Tip and Sample, A. Schirmeisen (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) et al., Applied Surface Science 157, No. 4, 274­279 (2000).

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Generation of RSA Keys That Are Guaranteed to Be Unique for Each User, M. Peyravian (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 12195, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709) et al., Computers & Security 19, No. 3, 282­288 (2000).

Three-Dimensional Dendritic Macromolecules, C. J. Hawker (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120), Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 4, No. 2, 117­121 (1999).

Computing Goes Embedded, P. K. Dubey (IBM India Research Laboratory, New Delhi 110016, India), Current Science 78, No. 7, 850­851 (2000).

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Price Dynamics and Quality in Information Markets, J. Sairamesh (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) and J. O. Kephart, Decision Support Systems 28, No. 1­2, 35­47 (2000).

Foresight-Based Pricing Algorithms in Agent Economies, G. J. Tesauro (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) and J. O. Kephart, Decision Support Systems 28, No. 1­2, 49­60 (2000).

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An Edge Detection from Images Corrupted by Mixed Noise Using Fuzzy Inference, H. Ishii (Musashi Institute of Technology, Tokyo 1588557, Japan) et al., Electronics and Communications in Japan Part III 83, No. 8, 39­50 (2000).

(O, G/I) Codes Are a Subclass of MTR Codes, R. D. Cideciyan (IBM Corporation, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland) and E. Eleftheriou, Electronics Letters 36, No. 7, 642­643 (2000).

High-Frequency Noise Performance of SiGe P-Channel MODFETs, S. J. Koester (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Electronics Letters 36, No. 7, 674­675 (2000).

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Filter Bank Modulation Techniques for Very High-Speed Digital Subscriber Lines, G. Cherubini (IBM Corporation, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland) et al., IEEE Communications Magazine 38, No. 5, 98­104 (2000).

Lightweight Document Matching for Help-Desk Applications, S. M. Weiss (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., IEEE Intelligent Systems & Their Applications 15, No. 2, 57­61 (2000).

Advanced Controlling Scheme for a DRAM Voltage Generator System, O. Weinfurtner (Infineon Technology, Hopewell Junction, NY 12533) et al., IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 35, No. 4, 552­563 (2000).

Hysteresis Effect in Pass-Transistor-Based Partially Depleted SOI CMOS Circuits, R. Puri (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) and C. T. Chuang, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 35, No. 4, 625­631 (2000).

Optimistic Fair Exchange of Digital Signatures, N. Asokan (IBM Corporation, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland) et al., IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 18, No. 4, 593­610 (2000).

Design, Implementation, and Deployment of the IKP Secure Electronic Payment System, M. Bellare (University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093) et al., IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 18, No. 4, 611­627 (2000).

New Multiparty Authentication Services and Key Agreement Protocols, G. Ateniese (IBM Corporation, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland) et al., IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 18, No. 4, 628­639 (2000).

Numerical Stability of Nonorthogonal FDTD Methods, S. D. Gedney (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506) and J. A. Roden, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 48, No. 2, 231­239 (2000).

A Method for Reduced-Order Modeling and Simulation of Large Interconnect Circuits and Its Application to PEEC Models with Retardation, J. Cullum (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545) et al., IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II 47, No. 4, 261­273 (2000).

Passive Interconnect Reduction Algorithm for Distributed/Measured Networks, R. Achar (Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada) et al., IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II 47, No. 4, 287­301 (2000).

RF Potential of a 0.18-µm CMOS Logic Device Technology, J. N. Burghartz (Delft University of Technology, NL-2600 GB Delft, Netherlands) et al., IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 47, No. 4, 864­870 (2000).

Time-Varying Encoders for Constrained Systems: An Approach to Limiting Error Propagation, J. J. Ashley (Infineon Technology, 375 Encinal Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060) and B. H. Marcus, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 46, No. 3, 1038­1043 (2000).

MDS Array Codes for Correcting a Single Crisscross Error, M. Blaum (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) and J. Bruck, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 46, No. 3, 1068­1077 (2000).

Reversible Arithmetic Coding for Quantum Data Compression, I. L. Chuang (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) and D. S. Modha, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 46, No. 3, 1104­1116 (2000).

The 3L Algorithm for Fitting Implicit Polynomial Curves and Surfaces to Data, M. M. Blane (Brown University, Providence, RI 02912) et al., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 22, No. 3, 298­313 (2000).

System-Level Power Consumption Modeling and Tradeoff Analysis Techniques for Superscalar Processor Design, T. M. Conte (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695) et al., IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems 8, No. 2, 129­137 (2000).

Knowledge-Based Software Composition Using Rough Set Theory, Y. Shinkawa (IBM Japan, Ltd., Chiba 2618522, Japan) and M. J. Matsumoto, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems E83D, No. 4, 691­700 (2000).

Product Hardware Complexity and Its Impact on Inventory and Customer On-Time Delivery, G. Y. Lin (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems 12, No. 2­3, 145­163 (2000).

Transition Matrix Monte Carlo, R. H. Swendsen (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213) et al., International Journal of Modern Physics C 10, No. 8, 1563­1569 (1999).

Quantitative Estimation of Attenuation in Ultrasound Video Images: Correlation with Histology in Diffuse Liver Disease, M. Graif (Tel Aviv Sourasky Ichilov Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, IL-64239 Tel Aviv, Israel) et al., Investigative Radiology 35, No. 5, 319­324 (2000).

Hard Disk Lubricant Conformation and Distribution Via Angle-Resolved ESCA, M. A. Karplus (IBM Corporation, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6161­6163 (2000).

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Reflective Microdisplay Using Anti-Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, M. H. Lu (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 1 39, No. 3A, 1165­1169 (2000).

Key Molecular Structure Determination of Photoalignment Materials from the Effects of Linearly Polarized Deep UV Light on Several Polymers, M. Hasegawa (IBM Japan, Ltd., 1623-14 Shimotsuruma, Yamato, Kanagawa 242, Japan), Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 1 39, No. 3A, 1272­1277 (2000).

Magnetization Reversal and Interlayer Coupling in Magnetic Tunneling Junctions, B. D. Schrag (Brown University, Providence, RI 02912) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 4682­4684 (2000).

Real Time Quantification of Monte Carlo Steps for Different Time Scales, R. Smirnovrueda (University of Wales, Dean Street, Bangor LL57 1UT, Gwynedd, Wales) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 4798­4800 (2000).

Design Tradeoffs for Beyond 20 Gb/in.2: Using a Merged Notched Head on Advanced Low Noise Media, M. Madison (IBM Corporation, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 4996­5000 (2000).

Exchange Biasing in Polycrystalline Thin-Film Microstructures, J. Yu (New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5049­5051 (2000).

On the Exchange Biasing Through a Nonmagnetic Spacer Layer, L. Thomas (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5061­5063 (2000).

Magnetic Impurity in a Superconductor: Local Phase Transitions and Finite Size Effects, Y. B. Bazaliy (Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305) and B. A. Jones, Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5561­5563 (2000).

Effects of Head Field Pulse Shape and Rise Time on Subnanosecond Magnetization Reversal in Longitudinal Thin-Film Media, M. E. Schabes (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5666­5668 (2000).

Micromagnetic Analysis of Anisotropy Orientation in High Density Longitudinal Magnetic Recording, H. Zhou (University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5675­5677 (2000).

Micromagnetic Simulation of Thermal Effect in Longitudinal Thin-Film Disk Media, Q. Z. Peng (IBM Corporation, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193), Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5678­5680 (2000).

Antiparallel Pinned NiO Spin Valve Sensor for GMR Head Application, M. Pinarbasi (IBM Corporation, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5714­5719 (2000).

AP-Pinned Spin Valve GMR and Magnetization, R. S. Beach (IBM Corporation, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5723­5725 (2000).

Magneto-Optical Behavior in Co/Pt Ultrathin Film Multilayers, R. A. Fry (George Washington University, Ashburn, VA 20147) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5765­5767 (2000).

Ion-Induced Magnetization Reorientation in Co/Pt Multilayers for Patterned Media, D. Weller (IBM Corporation, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5768­5770 (2000).

Tetragonal Equilibrium States of Mn and Fe, S. L. Qiu (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 5932­5934 (2000).

Magnetic and Transport Properties of Epitaxial and Polycrystalline Chromium Dioxide Thin Films, A. Gupta (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6073­6078 (2000).

 
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Microstructure and Noise Characteristics of Co-Cr-Ta Films on Ultraflat Glass Substrates for Longitudinal Recording Disks, K. Noda (IBM Japan, Ltd., 1623-14 Shimotsuruma, Yamato, Kanagawa 242, Japan) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6343­6345 (2000).

CoxCrx/Pt Multilayers as Perpendicular Recording Media, K. Takano (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6364­6366 (2000).

Corrosion-Free Dry Etch Patterning of Magnetic Random Access Memory Stacks: Effects of Ultraviolet Illumination, H. Cho (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6397­6399 (2000).

New Laser Illumination Method for Kerr Microscopy, B. E. Argyle (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) and J. G. McCord, Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6487­6489 (2000).

Domain Formation in Fe­N Multilayers, J. McCord (IBM Corporation, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95193) and J. Westwood, Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6502­6504 (2000).

Exchange Biasing and Interface Structure in MnNi/Fe(Mo) Bilayers, N. Cheng (University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6647­6649 (2000).

Thermal Field Fluctuations in a Magnetic Tip / Implications for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy, J. D. Hannay (University of Wales, Dean Street, Bangor LL57 1UT, Gwynedd, Wales) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6827­6829 (2000).

Magnetotransport and Magnetic Properties of Molecular-Beam Epitaxy L10 FePt Thin Films, J. Yu (New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6854­6856 (2000).

Temperature Dependent Chemical Ordering in FePt(001) and FePt(110) Films, M. M. Schwickert (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6956­6958 (2000).

High Magnetoresistance Permalloy Films Deposited on a Thin NiFeCr or NiCr Underlayer, W. Y. Lee (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 6992­6994 (2000).

Patterning Magnetic Films by Ion Beam Irradiation, B. D. Terris (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 9, 7004­7006 (2000).

Synthesis and Reactivity of Fe Nanoparticles Embedded in a Semi-Insulating Matrix, D. N. McIlroy (University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844) et al., Journal of Applied Physics 87, No. 10, 7213­7217 (2000).

Solid-State Deuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of the Methyl Dynamics of Poly(alpha-Methylstyrene) and Polymethylphenysilane, F. D. Blum (University of Missouri, Rolla, MO 65409) et al., Journal of Chemical Physics 112, No. 16, 7247­7259 (2000).

The Bonding of Simple Carboxylic Acids on Cu(110), O. Karis (University of Uppsala, Box 530, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden) et al., Journal of Chemical Physics 112, No. 18, 8146­8155 (2000).

Water Adsorption on Thin-Film Media, T. E. Karis (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120), Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 225, No. 1, 196­203 (2000).

Thickness Measurements of Thin Perfluoropolyether Polymer Films on Silicon and Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon with X-ray Reflectivity, ESCA and Optical Ellipsometry, M. F. Toney (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 225, No. 1, 219­226 (2000).

Exploring the Similarities Between Potential Smoothing and Simulated Annealing, R. K. Hart (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Journal of Computational Chemistry 21, No. 7, 531­552 (2000).

Record Breaking Optimization Results Using the Ruin and Recreate Principle, G. Schrimpf (IBM Germany GmbH, Vangerowstrasse 18, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany) et al., Journal of Computational Physics 159, No. 2, 139­171 (2000).

Island Growth of Ge on Si(001) and CoSi2 on Si(111) Studied with UHV Electron Microscopy, F. M. Ross (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Journal of Electron Microscopy 48, No. S, 1059­1066 (1999).

Integrated Optic Tunable Add-Drop Filters for WDM Ring Networks, S. Rotolo (Ital Tel, I-20019 Milan, Italy) et al., Journal of Lightwave Technology 18, No. 4, 569­578 (2000).

Spectral Hole Burning and Optical Dephasing in Disordered Crystals: Pr:LiNbO3 and Pr:Sr.6Ba.4Nb2O6 (SBN), R. M. Macfarlane (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Journal of Luminescence 86, No. 3­4, 311­315 (2000).

The Effect of Edge Roughness on Magnetization Reversal in Micron-Sized Permalloy Thin Films, J. G. Deak (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) and R. H. Koch, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 213, No. 1­2, 25­31 (2000).

Oxygen Stoichiometry in PdOx and PdOx/Pt Electrode Layers During Processing of Ferroelectric and High-epsilon Perovskites, K. L. Saenger (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Journal of Materials Research 15, No. 4, 961­966 (2000).

Thiols and Disulfides on the Au(111) Surface: The Headgroup-Gold Interaction, H. Grönbeck (IBM Corporation, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland) et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society 122, No. 16, 3839­3842 (2000).

Toward an Alkene Hydroamination Catalyst: Static and Dynamic Ab-Initio DFT Studies, H. M. Senn (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland) et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society 122, No. 17, 4098­4107 (2000).

IBM Journey Management Library: An Arena System for Airport Simulations, J. L. Snowdon (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Journal of the Operational Research Society 51, No. 4, 449­456 (2000).

All-Photoplastic, Soft Cantilever Cassette Probe for Scanning Force Microscopy, G. Genolet (IBM Corporation, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland) et al., Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 18, No. 2, 617­620 (2000).

Patterning of 0.175-µm Platinum Features Using Ar/O-2 Chemically Assisted Ion Beam Etching, M. U. Gutsche (Infineon Technology, D-81739 Munich, Germany) et al., Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 18, No. 2, 765­773 (2000).

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Relatively Robust Representations of Symmetric Tridiagonals, B. N. Parlett (University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720) and I. S. Dhillon, Linear Algebra and Its Applications 309, No. 1­3, 121­151 (2000).

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Starlike Polymeric Architectures by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Templates for the Production of Low Dielectric Constant Thin Films, A. Heise (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Macromolecules 33, No. 7, 2346­2354 (2000).

Siloxane Polymers for High-Resolution, High-Accuracy Soft Lithography, B. Michel (IBM Corporation, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland) and H. Schmid, Macromolecules 33, No. 8, 3042­3049 (2000).

A Primal-Dual Trust-Region Algorithm for Nonconvex Nonlinear Programming, A. R. Conn (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Mathematical Programming 87, No. 2, 215­249 (2000).

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Lagrangian Solution Techniques and Bounds for Loosely Coupled Mixed Integer Stochastic Programs, S. Takriti (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) and J. R. Birge, Operations Research 48, No. 1, 91­98 (2000).

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Emission Stabilization, L. Sheiner (IBM Corporation, Boca Raton, FL 33432), Photonics Spectra 34, No. 4, 82 (2000).

Electron Energy Levels in Superconducting and Magnetic Nanoparticles, D. C. Ralph (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853) et al., Physica B 280, No. 1­4, 420­424 (2000).

Schmidt Number for Density Matrices: Article No. 040301, B. M. Terhal (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) and P. Horodecki, Physical Review A 61, No. 4, 301+ (2000).

Efficient Implementation of Coupled Logic Gates for Quantum Computation: Article No. 042310, D. W. Leung (Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305) et al., Physical Review A 61, No. 4, 2310+ (2000).

Josephson Vortices at Tricrystal Boundaries, V. G. Kogan (Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011) et al., Physical Review B 61, No. 13, 9122­9129 (2000).

Orbital Character of O-2p Unoccupied States Near the Fermi Level in CrO2, C. B. Stagarescu (University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637) et al., Physical Review B 61, No. 14, 9233­9236 (2000).

Interface Stability in Hybrid Metal-Oxide Magnetic Trilayer Junctions, J. Z. Sun (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Physical Review B 61, No. 17, 1244­1247 (2000).

Quasi-Periodicity, Bistability, and Chaos in the Landau­Lifshitz Equation, L. F. Alvarez (CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain) et al., Physical Review B 61, No. 17, 1613­ 1617 (2000).

Oscillatory Decay of Magnetization Induced by Domain-Wall Stray Fields, L. Thomas (IBM Corporation, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120) et al., Physical Review Letters 84, No. 15, 3462­3465 (2000).

The Frequency Spectrum of Sound Radiated by Isotropic Turbulence, R. Rubinstein (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681) and Y. Zhou, Physics Letters A 267, No. 5­6, 379­383 (2000).

Radiation Risks and LNT: The Discussion Continues, R. L. Garwin (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598), Physics Today 53, No. 5, 12+ (2000).

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Divergence Effects in Monochromatic X-ray Microdiffraction Using Tapered Capillary Optics, I. C. Noyan (IBM Corporation, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598) et al., Review of Scientific Instruments 71, No. 5, 1991­2000 (2000).

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Gadgets, Approximation, and Linear Programming, L. Trevisan (Columbia University, 1214 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027) et al., SIAM Journal on Computing 29, No. 6, 2074­2097 (2000).

Approximating Minimum Subset Feedback Sets in Undirected Graphs with Applications, G. Even (Tel Aviv University, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel) et al., SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 13, No. 2, 255­267 (2000).

Technology Is Not Enough: Improving Performance by Building Organizational Memory, R. Cross (Boston University, Boston, MA 02215) and L. Baird, Sloan Management Review 41, No. 3, 69+ (2000).

High-Throughput E-Beam Stepper Lithography, K. Okamoto (Nikon Inc., Shinagawa Ku, 1-6-3 Nishi Ohi, Tokyo 1408601, Japan) et al., Solid State Technology 43, No. 5, 118­122 (2000).

3D Object Recognition: Representation and Matching, A. K. Jain (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824) and C. Dorai, Statistics and Computing 10, No. 2, 167­182 (2000).

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Model Integrated Tools for the Design of Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems, T. Bapty (400 24th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37235) et al., VLSI Design 10, No. 3, 281­306 (2000).