1997 Research Publications

Physics

Books and Chapters

Blair, D. and McNamara, G. Ripples on a Cosmic Sea, St Leonards NSW Australia, Allen & Unwin (1997)

Blair, D. The Drums of Heaven - Black Holes and Gravitational Astronomy, All Us Apes and other scientific wisdom from Ockham's Razor, ed P. (series editor) Davies, Sydney, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, pp 160-166 (1997)

Journal Articles

Abbott, P.C. In and Out, The Mathematical Journal, 7:1, pp 24-30 (1997)

Abbott, P.C. Tricks of the Trade, The Mathematical Journal, 7:1, pp 14-22 (1997)

Babcock, K.L., Folks, L., Street, R., Woodward, R.C. and Bradbury, D.L. Evolution of magnetic microstructure in high-coercivity permanent magnets imaged with magnetic force microscopy, Journal of Applied Physics, 81:8, pp 4438-4440 (1997)

Bashkin, E.P. and Vagov, A.V. Instability and stratification of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in a trapped ultracold gas, Physical Review B, 56:6, pp 6207-6212 (1997)

Blair, D., Cleva, F. and Nary Man, C. Optical absorption measurements in monocrystalline sapphire at 1 mm, Optical Materials, 8: pp 233-236 (1997)

Blair, D.G., Michel, C., Pinard, L., Notcutt, M., Taylor, C.T., Wong, E.K., Walsh, C., Leistner, A., Seckold, J., Mackowski, J.-M. and Ganau, P.Development of low-loss sapphire mirrors, Applied Optics, 36:1, pp 337-341 (1997)

Budge, J., Hayes, P.A., Yu, D.H., Williams, J.F. and Robins, J.L. A bakeable in-line ultrahigh-vacuum valve, Review of Scientific Instruments, 68:6, pp 2591-2592 (1997)

Chang, S., Mann, A.G., Luiten, A.N. and Blair, D.G. Measurements of Radiation Pressure Effect in Cryogenic Sapphire Dielectric Resonators, Physical Review Letters, 79:11, pp 2141-2144 (1997)

Chen, H., Dobson, J.P., Heller, F. and Hao, J. Preliminary paleomagnetic results from the Upper Carboniferous of Uliastai Block, Inner Mongolia, China, Geophysical Research Letters, 24:22, pp 2833-2836 (1997)

Chua-anusorn, W., Webb, J., Macey, D.J., Pootrakul, P. and St Pierre, T.G. The effect of histological processing on the form of iron in iron-loaded human tissues, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1360: pp 255-261 (1997)

Ding, J., McCormick, P.G. and Street, R. Formation of spinel Mn-ferrite during mechanical alloying, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 171: pp 309-314 (1997)

Dixon, T.W., Kenny, B.G. and Briggs, K.M. On the universality of singular circle maps, Physics Letters A, 231: pp 359-366 (1997)

Eilon, M.G., Thompson, P.J., Geoghegan, D.S. and Street, R. A classical Ising model and magnetic viscosity in thin films, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 175: pp 249-254 (1997)

Grassi-Schultheiss, P.P., Heller, F. and Dobson, J. Analysis of magnetic material in the human heart, spleen and liver, BioMetals, 10: pp 351-355 (1997)

Hayes, P.A., Yu, D.H. and Williams, J.F. Computer stabilized spin polarized electron source, Review of Scientific Instruments, 68:4, pp 1708-1713 (1997)

Hsu, R., Maslen, E.N., Du Boulay, D. and Ishizawa, N. Synchrotron X-ray Studies of LiNbO3 and LiTaO3, Acta Crystallographica, B53: pp 420-428 (1997)

Ivanov, E.N., Tobar, M.E. and Woode, R.A. A Study of Noise Phenomena in Microwave Components Using an Advanced Noise Measurement System, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 44:1, pp 161-163 (1997)

Kun, S.Y., Vagov, A.V. and Marcinkowski, A. Forward peaking of near Coulomb energy protons in (n,p) reactions at 14.1 MeV, Zeitschrift für Physik A - Hadrons & Nuclei, 358: pp 69-71 (1997)

Kun, S.Y., Denisov, V.Y. and Vagov, A.V. A quantum chaotic clock and damping of the coherent nuclear rotation in the 28Si+64Ni dissipative collisions, Zietschrift für Physik A - Hadrons & Nuclei, 359:3, pp 257-262 (1997)

Kun, S.Y., Vagov, A.V., Hinde, D.J., Dasgupta, M., Leigh, J.R., Mein, J.C., Morton, C.R., Newton, J.O., Robson, B.A. and Timmers, H. Correlated oscillations in the excitation functions of deep-inelastic collisions - evidence for nuclear pulsars, Zeitschrift für Physik A - Hadrons & Nuclei, 359:3, pp 263-270 (1997)

Kun, S.Y. and Vagov, A.V. Off-diagonal long-range order coherence, quantum chaos and non-self-averaging of the excitation function oscillations in dissipative heavy-ion collisions, Zeitschrift für Physik A - Hadrons & Nuclei, 359:2, pp 137-140 (1997)

Kun, S.Y., Scheid, W., Vagov, A.G., Vannini, G., Vannucci, L., Abbondanno, U., Bruno, M., Cindro, N., Dagostino, M., Milazzo, P.M., Ricci, R.A., Ritz, T. and Robson, B.A. Damped oscillations in the energy autocorrelation functions of the 58Ni+46Ti elastic and 58Ni+62Ni elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections, Zeitschrift für Physik A - Hadrons and Nuclei, 359:2, pp 145-148 (1997)

Liu, J., Ju, L. and Blair, D.G. Vibration isolation performance of an ultra-low frequency folded pendulum resonator, Physics Letters A, 228: pp 243-249 (1997)

McArthur, I.N. The Wess-Zumino term for supermembranes and descent equations, Nuclear Physics B, 507: pp 645-657 (1997)

McArthur, I.N. A "Gaussian" approach to computing supersymmetric effective actions., Nuclear Physics B, 497: pp 525-540 (1997)

Miao, W.F., Ding, J., McCormick, P.G. and Street, R. Magnetic behaviour of mechanically milled (Nd1-xDyx)8Fe88B4, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 175: pp 304-310 (1997)

Miao, W.F., Ding, J., McCormick, P.G. and Street, R. Magnetic and structural properties of high remanence Nd8(FeCo)88B4 prepared by mechanical milling, Journal of Applied Physics, 82:9, pp 4439-4444 (1997)

Miao, W.F., McCormick, P.G. and Street, R. High Magnetic Performance in a Two-Phase NdDyFeCoB Alloy, Solid State Communications, 101:9, pp 687-691 (1997)

Mikosza, A.G., Williams, J.F. and Wang, J.B. Complete Determination of Excitation Amplitudes and Phases for the 31D State of Helium, Physical Review Letters, 79:18, pp 3375-3378 (1997)

Robinson, J.S., Kennedy, S.J. and Street, R. An investigation of the atomic and magnetic structure of mechanically alloyed Cu2MnAl using neutron diffraction and the Rietveld method, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 9: pp 1877-1886 (1997)

Streltsov, V., Maslen, T. and Ishizawa, N. Synchrotron Electron Densities for Intermetallic Rare Earth Compounds, Photon Factory Activity Report 1996, :14, p 312 (1997)

Taylor, C.T., Notcutt, M., Wong, E.K., Mann, A.G. and Blair, D.G. Measurement of the Thermal Expansion Coefficient of an All-Sapphire Optical Cavity, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 46:2, pp 183-185 (1997)

Thompson, P.J. and Street, R. Viscosity, reptation and tilting effects in permanent magnets, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 30: pp 1273-1284 (1997)

Thompson, P.J. and Street, R. A technique for simulating the effect of long-term magnetic viscosity in permanent magnets, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 171: pp 163-169 (1997)

Thompson, P.J. and Street, R. Magnetic viscosity and Barkhausen noise in NdFeB-type permanent magnets, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 171: pp 153-162 (1997)

Tobar, M.E., Krupka, J., Ivanov, E.N. and Woode, R.A. Dielectric frequency-temperature-compensated microwave whispering-gallery-mode resonators, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 30: pp 2770-2775 (1997)

Tobar, M.E., Ivanov, E.N., Oi, D.K.L., Cuthbertson, D.B. and Blair, D.G.Sapphire test-masses for measuring the standard quantum limit and achieving quantum non-demolition, Applied Physics B - Lasers and Optics, 64: pp 153-166 (1997)

Vagov, A.V. and Vorov, O.K. Gaussian ensemble of tridiagonal symmetric random matrices, Physics Letters A, 232: pp 91-98 (1997)

Wang, J.B., Williams, J.F. and Carter, C.J. A Monte Carlo Study of Radiation Trapping Effects, Australian Journal of Physics, 50: pp 645-653 (1997)

Waterhouse, D.K. and Williams, J.F. The performance of a microchannel-plate-based position sensitive detection system, Review of Scientific Instruments, 68:9, pp 3363-3370 (1997)

Waterhouse, D.K. and Williams, J.F. Interference and PCI in argon Auger (e,2e) spectra, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 30: pp 2845-2858 (1997)

Waterhouse, D.K. and Williams, J.F. Interference in Argon Auger Spectra, Physical Review Letters, 79:3, pp 391-394 (1997)

Wentrup-Byrne, E., Chua-anusorn, W., St Pierre, T.G., Webb, J., Ramsay, A. and Rintoul, L. A Spectroscopic Study of Thalassemic Gallstones, Biospectroscopy, 3: pp 409-416 (1997)

Whittaker, D.M., Skolnick, M.S., Fisher, T.A., Armitage, A., Baxter, D. and Astratov, V.N. Excitons and Polaritons in Semiconductor Microcavities, Physica Status Solidi (a), 164: pp 13-17 (1997)

Williams, J.F. and Stelbovics, A.T. Interpolation of small-angle electron scattering differential cross sections, Journal of Physics B : Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 30: pp 439-444 (1997)

Wong, E.K., Notcutt, M., Taylor, C.T., Mann, A.G. and Blair, D.G.Temperature-compensated cryogenic Fabry-Perot cavity, Applied Optics, 36:33, pp 8563-8566 (1997)

Yu, D.H., Hayes, P.A. and Williams, J.F. Resonance formation in the excitation of the Ne 3p[1/2]1 state by polarized electrons, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 30: pp L487-L492 (1997)

Yu, D.H., Hayes, P.A., Williams, J.F. and Locke, C. Stokes parameters from neon 3p(J = 2) states excited by polarized electrons, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 30: pp L461-L466 (1997)

Yu, D.H., Hayes, P.A., Williams, J.F. and Furst, J.E. Spin-polarized electron excitation of neon 3p(J = 1) states, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 30: pp 1799-1812 (1997)

Yu, D.H., Hayes, P.A., Williams, J.F. and Furst, J.E. Polarised Electron Study of Angular Momentum Coupling in the Neon 3p States, Australian Journal of Physics, 50: pp 639-644 (1997)

Yu, D.H., Hayes, P.A., Furst, J.E. and Williams, J.F. Spin-Orbit and Exchange Effects in Neon 3p States, Physical Review Letters, 78:14, pp 2724-2727 (1997)

Conference Publications

Abbott, P.C. Teaching Mathematics using Mathematica, Second Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics, Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, pp 24-40 (1997)

Abbott, P.C. Mathematica and Physics, Ninth Physics Summer School - Computational Physics, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., pp 11-21 (1997)

Akhmediev, N., Das, M.P. and Vagov, A.V. Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms with attractive interaction, 20th International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, New York, USA, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 12: pp 17-25 (1997)

Bashkin, E.P. and Vagov, A.V. Multi-component Bose-Einstein condensation in ultracold atomic gases, 20th International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, New York, USA, Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 12: pp 43-53 (1997)

Blair, D.G. and Ju, L. A cosmological background of gravitational waves detectable by cross correlation of bars and interferometers, International Conference on Gravitational Waves, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2: pp 193-198 (1997)

Blair, D.G., Heng, I.S., Ivanov, E.N., Tobar, M.E., Turner, P.J. and van Kann, F.J. The Perth Niobium Resonant Mass Antenna with Microwave Parametric Transducer, First International Workshop on Omnidirectional Gravitational Radiation Observatory, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, pp 27-38 (1997)

Blair, D.G., Chang, S., Ivanov, E.N., Luiten, A.N., Mann, A.G., Tobar, M. and Woode, R. Ultrastable and Ultralow Phase Noise Microwave Sapphire Oscillators, Workshop on the Scientific Applications of Clocks in Space, Pasadena, California, USA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 97-15: pp 101-125 (1997)

Blair, D.G., Taniwaki, M., Zhao, C.N., McClelland, D., Harb, C., Gray, M.B., Huntington, E.R., Ralph, T.C., Bachor, H., Sandeman, J., Mudge, D., Notcutt, M., Ottaway, D., Hamilton, M.W., Munch, J., Veitch, P.J., Ju, L., Tobar, M.E., Yang, Y.M., Wong, E., Taylor, C., Winterflood, J. and Liu, J.F. Progress in the Development of Technology for Advanced Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors, TAMA International Workshop on Gravitational Wave Detection, Tokyo, Japan, Universal Academy Press, Inc., pp 75-94 (1997)

Blair, D.G., Burman, R., Ju, L., Woodings, S., Mulder, M. and Zadnik, M.G. The Supernova Cosmological Background of Gravitational Waves, First International Workshop on Omnidirectional Gravitational Radiation Observatory, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, pp 251-259 (1997)

du Boulay, D. and Maslen, E.N. Synchrotron Studies of Structural Variation in Rare Earth Aluminate Perovskites, CRYSTAL XX. The Twentieth Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia, Canterbury, New Zealand, University of Canterbury, p 020 (1997)

Folks, L., Woodward, R.C., Babcock, K.L. and Street, R. Magnetic Force Microscopy of Sintered NdFeB, NATO Advanced Studies Institute Conference on Magnetic Hysteresis in Novel Magnetic Materials, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 338: pp 215-220 (1997)

Ishizawa, N., Kishimoto, S. and Vaalsta, T.P. High-speed detector for electron density study using SR, CRYSTAL XX. The Twentieth Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia, Canterbury, New Zealand, University of Canterbury, pp O-05 (1997)

Ishizawa, N., Kishimoto, S. and Vaalsta, T.P. Synchrotron X-ray Measurement of Diffracted Intensities from Single Crystal by a Detector using Stacked Avalanche Photodiodes, SAGAMORE XII, Saskatchewan, Canada, University of Regina, p PA96 (1997)

Ivanov, E.N., Tobar, M.E. and Woode, R.A. Tunable Microwave Oscillator for Low Phase Noise Applications, 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Frequency Control Symposium, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp 985-993 (1997)

Maloney, C.M., Madison, D.H. and Wang, J.B. Electron Impact Excitation of the Fourteen Lowest States of Argon, American Physical Society Annual Meeting of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division, USA, American Physical Society, Series II, Vol. 42, No. 2: p 1114 (1997)

Maslen, E.N. and Streltsov, V.A. Electron Difference Densities in DyFe2 and HoFe2, CRYSTAL XX. The Twentieth Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia., Canterbury, New Zealand, University of Canterbury, p 030 (1997)

McNeilage, C., Searls, J.H., Stockwell, P.R., Ivanov, E.N., Tobar, M.E. and Woode, R.A. Advanced Phase Detection Technique for the Real Time Measurement and Reduction of Noise in Components and Oscillators, 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Frequency Control Symposium, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp 509-514 (1997)

Mikosza, A.G., Wang, J.B., Rose, H.K. and Williams, J.F. Measurements of the singlet-triplet mix ratio in He(41,3F), Twentieth International Conference on The Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, Austria, Institut für Allgemeine Physik, II: p MO 094 (1997)

O'Toole, N.J., Maslen, E.N. and Streltsov, V.A. Structural Effects of the Electron Density in CoF2 and ZnF2, CRYSTAL XX. The Twentieth Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia., Canterbury, New Zealand, University of Canterbury, p 031 (1997)

O'Toole, N.J., Maslen, E.N. and STRELTSOV, V.A. The Calculation of Mean Inner Potentials from X-ray Diffraction Data, SAGAMORE XII, Saskatchewan, Canada, University of Regina, p PA73 (1997)

Streltsov, V.A. Electron Density Imaging with Synchrotron X-radiation, CRYSTAL XX. The Twentieth Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia, Canterbury, New Zealand, University of Canterbury, pp O-04 (1997)

Streltsov, V.A. and Maslen, E.N. Synchrotron Electron Density Probe of Intermediate Valence and Heavy Fermion Systems, CRYSTAL XX. The Twentieth Meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia, Canterbury, New Zealand, University of Canterbury, p 029 (1997)

Streltsov, V.A. Synchrotron Electron Densities in RFe2 (R=Rare Earth), SAGAMORE XII, Saskatchewan, Canada, University of Regina, p PB126 (1997)

Tobar, M.E., Ivanov, E.N. and Woode, R.A. Ultra-Low Noise Detection and Signal Generation Using Carrier Suppression, Workshop on Applications of Radio Science, Canberra, ACT, The Australian Academy of Science, pp 245-250 (1997)

Tobar, M.E., Ivanov, E.N. and Blair, D.G. Improving the sensitivity of the UWA resonant-mass detector, International Conference on Gravitational Waves, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2: pp 217-220 (1997)

Tobar, M.E., Ivanov, E.N., Blair, D.G. and Cuthbertson, B.D. Low-Loss Sapphire Transducers for Resonant-Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors and Quantum Non-Demolition Readouts, First International Workshop on Omnidirectional Gravitational Radiation Observatory, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, pp 211-218 (1997)

Tobar, M.E., Krupka, J., Hartnett, J.G., Ivanov, E.N. and Woode, R.A.Sapphire-Rutile Frequency-Temperature Compensated Whispering Gallery Microwave Resonators, 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Frequency Control Symposium, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp 1000-1008 (1997)

Wang, J.B., Wu, H.Y., Williams, J.F. and Mikosza, A.G. What is the pressure at the collision site?, Twentieth International Conference on The Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, Austria, Institut für Allgemeine Physik, TU Wien and Austrian Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Verkehr, 1: p TH 044 (1997)

Wang, J.B. and Woolford, C. Interactive Learning of Atomic Physics, 14th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Perth, WA, Academic Computing Services, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, p 681 (1997)

Wang, J.B., Stelbovics, A.T. and Williams, J.F. An invariant graphical method for setting up the close-coupling equations, Twentieth International Conference on The Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, Austria, Institut für Allgemeine Physik, TU Wien and Austrian Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Verkehr, II: p MO 084 (1997)

Zadnik, M.G., Heiligman, G., Winterflood, J., Williams, A.J., Wellington, K.J., Vaile, R., Blair, D.G., Tarter, J.C., Backus, P.R. and Norris, R.P.Interstellar Communication Channel Search of 49 Stars Closer than 11.5 PC, Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe, Bologna, Italy, Editrice Compositori, pp 657-660 (1997)

Zhao, C.N., Winterflood, J., Taniwaki, M., Notcutt, M., Liu, J., Ju, L. and Blair, D.G. The development of technology for high performance laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors, International Conference on Gravitational Waves, Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2: pp 211-216 (1997)