Nicholas B. Tufillaro's Publications Listed by Year
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2007

United State Patent Application 20070219739, Published 20 September 2007
Brian Spears, John Wood, and Nicholas Tufillaro
Mixer measurement system and method using a chaotic signal

United State Patent Application 20070185671, Published 9 August 2007
Lee Barford, Nicholas Tufillaro, and Ajay Khoche
Excitation signal generator for improved accuracy of model-based testing

United State Patent Application 20070139054, Published 21 June 2007
Nicholas Tufillaro and Gregory D. VanWiggeren
Stimulation-response measurement system and method using a chaotic lock-in amplifier

2006

United States Patent 7,099,435   29 August 2006
John Heumann, Colin Fox, David Gines, and Nicholas Tufillaro
Highly constrained tomography for automated inspection of area arrays

2005

Book chapter in Fundamentals of Nonlinear Behavioral Modeling for RF and Microwave Circuits,
John Wood and David Root Editors, ArTech House Publishers 2005.
File Name: io_16.pdf

United States Patent 6,892,155 10 May 2005
Kevin Gee and Nicholas Tufillaro
Method for the rapid estimation of figures of merit for multiple devices based on nonlinear modeling

United States Patent 6,850,871 1 February 2005
Lee Barford, Linda Kamas, Nicholas Tufillaro, and Daniel Usikov
Method and apparatus for extraction of nonlinear black-box models from embeddings of the time-domain measurements

2004

John Wood, David Root, and Nick Tufillaro,
A behavioral modeling approach to nonlinear model-order reduction for RF/Microwave ICs and Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 52, No. 9, September 2004, 2274-2284
File Name: io_15.pdf

T. C. A. Molteno and N. B. Tufillaro,
An experimental investigation into the dynamics of a string,
American Journal of Physics, September 2004, Vol 72 No 9 pages 1157-1169.
File name: str_5.pdf

United States Patent 6,775,646, 10 August 2004, Nicholas Tufillaro and David Walker
Exciation signal and radial basis function methods for use in extraction of nonlinear black-box behavioral models.

2003

D. Schreurs, J. Wood, N. Tufillaro, L. Barford, and D. E. Root
Construction of behavioural models for microwave devices from time-domain large-signal to speed-up high-level design simulations.
International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-aided engineering 13 (1): 54-61, Jan 2003.
File Name: io_12.pdf

Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Book Review: The Topology of Chaos by Gilmore and Lefranc,
The American Journal of Physics, Vol. 71 (5), pages 508-510, May 2003.
File Name: rev_4.pdf

David E. Root, John Wood, and Nick Tufillaro,
New Techniques for Non-linear Behavioral Modeling Modeling of Microwave/RF
IC's from Simulation and and Nonlinear Microwave Measurements.
Proceedings of the 40th Design Automation Conference, DAC 2003, Anaheim, CA, USA, June 2003.
File Name: io_14.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro and T. Abbott
Follow the bouncing ball --- an introduction to chaos
(draft, unpublished)
File name: bb_7.pd

2002

David Root, John Wood, Alexander Pekker, Nick Tufillaro, and Dominique Schreurs,
Proceedings of 2002 IEEE International Workshop on Behavioral
Modeling and Simulation October 6-8, Santa Rosa, California.
Systematic Behavioral Modeling of Nonlinear Microwave/RF Circuits
in the Time Domain Using Techniques from Nonlinear Dynamical Systems,
File Name: io_13.pdf

2001

Nicholas B. Tufillaro
Generating a fractal using a capacitor.
American Journal of Physics, June 2001, page 721.
File Name: fra_1.pdf

David M. Walker, Nicholas B. Tufillaro, and Paul Gross
Radial basis models for feedback systems with fading memory.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 48 no. 9 pages 1147-1151, September 2001
(Agilent Labs Technical Report AGL-2000-12).
File Name: io_7.pdf, io_7_draft.pdf

Lee Barford, Nicholas Tufillaro, Daniel Usikov, Leonid Marochnik, and Robert McCutcheon
Calibration of Hubble Space Telescope Focal-Length Variations Using the Emedding Technique.
2001 Flight Mechanics Symposium (NASA), Edited by John P. Lynch, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, June 19-21 2001.
File Name: io_11.pdf

D. Schreurs, S. Vandenberghe, J. Wood, N. Tufillaro, L. Barford, and D. E. Root
Automatically controlled coverage of the voltage plane of quasi-unilateral devices,
Proc. Automatic RF Techniques Group Conference (ARFTC), USA pp. 86-90, 24-25 May 2001.
File Name: io_10b.pdf

2000

GNU Plotting Utilities: Programs and Functions for Drawing and Plotting Data.
Robert S. Maier and Nicholas B. Tufillaro
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA
November 2000
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Nicholas B. Tufillaro et. al.,
Measurement driven models of nonlinear electronic components.
55th ARFTG Conference Digest
15-16 June 2000, Boston, MA.
Agilent Labs Technical Report AGL-2000-2
File Name: io_6.pdf

Nicholas B. Tufillaro and David M. Walker
Behavioral models of microwave circuits with fading memory.
56th ARFTG Conference Procedings
Boulder, Colorado, 30 November 2000
File Name: io_8.pdf

D. Schreurs, N. Tufillaro, J. Wood, D. Usikov, L. Barford, and D. Root
Development of time-domain behavioral models for microwave devices and ICs from vectorial large-signal measurements and simulations.
GAAS 2000 1-6 October 2000, Paris, France.
30th European Microwave Conference, GAAS Wireless Technologies 2000.
Proc. European GaAs and related III-V compounds applications symposium.
File Name: io_9.pdf

D. Schreurs, J. Wood, N. Tufillaro, D. Usikov, L. Barford, and D. Root
The construction and evaluation of behavioral models for microwave devices based on time-domain large-signal measurements.
2000 IEDM Technical Program (International Electron Devices Meeting)
13 December 2000, San Francisco, CA.
File Name: io_10.pdf

1999

Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics
(Search for RB-70 in the Products Catalog on the AAPT product site).
Edited by Robert C. Hilborn and Nicholas B. Tufillaro, AAPT, 1999.

Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Symbolic dynamics in mathematics, physics, and engineering,
(preprint, 1997; HPL-1999-28)
File Name: top_9.pdf

Albert D. Harvey III, David H. West, and Nicholas B. Tufillaro
Evaluation of Laminar Mixing in Stirred Tanks Using a Discrete Time Particle Mapping Procedure,
Chemical Engineering Science 55 (2000) 667-684; HPL-1999-56
File Name: mix_1.pdf

Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
A dynamical systems approach to behavioral modeling,
(preprint, 1998; HPL-1999-22).
File Name: io_0.pdf

David M. Walker, Reggie Brown, and Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Constructing transportable behavioral models for nonlinear electronic devices,
Physics Letts. A. (255) 4-6 (1999) pp 236-242. (HPL-1999-23)
File Name: io_1.pdf

David M. Walker and Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Phase Space Reconstruction using Input-Output Time Series Data
(Physical Review E. 60 (4), 4008-4013, October 1999).
File Name: io_2.pdf

David M. Walker and Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Reconstructing the Dynamics of FET Oscillators
Using Radial Basis Functions
(preprint, 1999; HPL-1999-74).
File Name: io_3.pdf

David M Walker and Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Nonlinear Modeling of a Bi-Polar Junction Transistor
(preprint, 1999; HPL-1999-73).
File Name: io_4.pdf

David M. Walker and Nicholas B. Tufillaro
Phase-space reconstruction and approximating relative degree from input-output time series data
(HPL-1999-75).
File Name: io_5.pdf

1998

1997

R. Hilborn and Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Nonlinear Dynamics Resource Letter I,
The American Journal of Physics, September 1997.
File Name: rev_3.pdf

1996

1995

A. Nunes, J. Casasayas, and N. B. Tufillaro,
Periodic orbits of the integrable swinging Atwood's machine,
American Journal of Physics 63 (2), 121-126 (1995).
File Name: sam_9.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro, P. Wyckoff, R. Brown, T. Schreiber,
and T. Molteno,
Topological time series analysis of a string experiment and its synchronized model,
Physical Review E 51 (1), 164-174 (1995).
File Name: str_4.pdf, top_8.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Topological organization of (low-dimensional) chaos,
in NATO-ASI proceedings,
From statistical physics to statistical inference and back,
J.-P. Nadal and P. Grassberger editors,
Kluwer Academic Publishers (1994).
File Name: top_5.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro, P. Wyckoff, R. Brown, T. Schreiber,
and T. Molteno,
Topological time series analysis of a string experiment and its synchronized model,
Physical Review E 51 (1), 164-174 (1995).
File Name: str_4.pdf, top_8.pdf

1994

N. B. Tufillaro
Comment on "Bouncing ball with finite restitution: Cluttering, locking and chaos,
(preprint)
Filename: bb_5.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Braid analysis of a bouncing ball,
Physical Review E 50 (6), 4509-4522 (1994).
File Name: bb_6.pdf, top_7.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Teardrop and heart orbits of a swinging Atwoods machine,
The American Journal of Physics 62 (3), 231-233 (1994).
File Name: sam_8.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Guest comment: A generation lost?,
American Journal of Physics (September, 1994).
File Name: ed_1.pdf

R. Brown, N. Rulkov, and N. B. Tufillaro,
Synchronization of chaotic systems: the effects of additive noise and drift in the dynamics and driving,
Physical Review E 50 (6), 4488-4508 (1994).
File Name: syn_1.pdf

R. Brown, N. Rulkov, and N. B. Tufillaro,
The effects of additive noise and drift in the dynamics of the driving on chaotic synchronization,
Physics Letters 162A, 201-205 (1994).
File Name: syn_2.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Braid analysis of a bouncing ball,
Physical Review E 50 (6), 4509-4522 (1994).
File Name: bb_6.pdf, top_7.pdf

1993

R. Brown, N. Rulkov, and N. B. Tufillaro,
The effects of additive noise and drift in the dynamics of the driving on chaotic synchronization,
Physics Letters 162A, 201-205 (1994).
File Name: syn_2.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Discrete dynamical models showing pattern formation in subaqueous bedforms,
International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos
3 (3), 779-784 (1993).
File Name: ca_3.pdf

1992

An Experimental Approach to Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
N. B. Tufillaro, T. A. Abbott, and J. P. Reilly,
(Addison-Wesley, 1992).
File Name: book_1.pdf (This is not a complete copy --- it is missing pictures.)
(Search for a used copy on Amazon.com)

1991

P. Melvin and N. B. Tufillaro,
Templates and framed braids,
Physical Review A 44 (6), R3416 (1991).
File Name: top_3.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro, R. Holzner, L. Flepp, E. Brun,
M. Finardi, and R. Badii,
Template analysis for a chaotic NMR-laser,
Physical Review A 44 (8), R4786 (1991).
File Name: top_4.pdf

1990

J. P. Reilly and N. B. Tufillaro,
Worlds within worlds -- an introduction to cellular automata,
The Physics Teacher, February, 88 (1990).
File Name: ca_2.pdf

N. B. Abraham, A. M. Albano, and N. B. Tufillaro,
Introduction to measures of complexity and chaos,
in NATO ASI Series B: Proceedings of the international workshop on
Quantitative Measures of Dynamical Complexity in Nonlinear Systems,
Bryn Mawr, PA, USA June 22-24, 1989.
N. B. Abraham, A. M. Albano, T. Passamante, and P. Rapp eds.,
(Plenum Press: New York, 1990).
File Name: rev_2.pdf

J. Casasayas, A. Nunes, and N. B. Tufillaro,
Swinging Atwood's machine: integrability and dynamics,
Journal de Physique 51, 1693 (1990).
File Name: sam_7.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Torsional parametric oscillations in wires,
European Journal of Physics 11, 122 (1990).
File Name: str_2.pdf

T. C. A. Molteno and N. B. Tufillaro,
Torus doubling and chaotic string vibrations: experimental results,
The Journal of Sound and Vibration 137 (2), 327 (1990).
File Name: str_3.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro, H. G. Solari, and R. Gilmore
Relative rotation rates: fingerprints for strange attractors,
Physical Review A vol 41 (10), pages 5717-5720, 15 May 1990.
File Name: top_1.pdf

G. B. Mindlin, X-J Hou, H. G. Solari, R. Gilmore,
and N. B. Tufillaro,
Classification of strange attractors by integers,
Physical Review Letters 64 (20), 2350 (1990).
File Name: top_2.pdf

1989

J. Casasayas, N. B. Tufillaro, and A. Nunes,
Infinity manifold of a swinging Atwood's machine,
European Journal of Physics 10 (10), 173 (1989).
File Name: sam_6.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Nonlinear and chaotic string vibrations,
American Journal of Physics 57 (5), 408 (1989).
File Name: str_1.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro, R. Ramshankar, and J. P. Gollub,
Order-disorder transition in capillary ripples,
Physical Review Letters 62 (4), 422 (1989).
File Name: rip1_pdf

1988

N. B. Tufillaro,
Notes on defect driven chaos in capillary ripples
(unpublished, 1988).
File Name: rip_0_pdf

N. B. Tufillaro, A. Nunes, and J. Casasayas,
Unbounded orbits of a swinging Atwood's machine,
American Journal of Physics 56 (12), 1117 (1988).
File Name: sam_5.pdf

1987

N. B. Tufillaro,
Cellular automata program,
in Who Got Einstein's Office? by Ed Regis
(Addison Wesley, New York, 1987).
File Name: ca_1.pdf

T. M. Mello and N. B. Tufillaro,
Strange attractors of a bouncing ball,
American Journal of Physics 55 (4), 316 (1987).
File Name: bb_3.pdf

K. Wiesenfeld and N. B. Tufillaro,
Suppression of period doubling in the dynamics of a bouncing ball,
Physica 26D, 321 (1987).
File Name: bb_4.pdf

1986

N. Abraham, A. Albano, B. Das, R. Gioggia, T. Mello,
M. Tarroja, and N. B. Tufillaro,
Definitions of chaos and measuring its characteristics,
in SPIE Proceedings on Optical Chaos,
J. Chrostowski and N. B. Abraham eds. 667, 2 (1986).
File Name: rev_1.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Integrable motion of a swinging Atwood's machine,
American Journal of Physics 54 (2), 142 (1986).
File Name: sam_4.pdf

Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Chaos Experiment Quadratic Map Lab Manual
(unpublished, 28 September 1986)
File Name: quadratic_map_lab.pdf

Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Chaos Experiment Bouncing Ball Lab Manual
(unpublished, 25 September 1986)
File Name: bouncing_ball_lab.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro and A. M. Albano,
Chaotic dynamics of a bouncing ball,
American Journal of Physics 54 (10), 939 (1986).
File Name: bb_1.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro, T. M. Mello, Y. M. Choi, and A. M. Albano,
Period doubling boundaries of a bouncing ball,
Journal de Physique 47, 1477 (1986).
File Name: bb_2.pdf

1985

Nicholas B. Tufillaro,
Computers and Physics at Bryn Mawr College
(unpublished, 17 May 1985)
File Name: bmc_computer_report.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Collision orbits of a swinging Atwood's machine,
Journal de Physique 46, 2053 (1985).
File Name: sam_2.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro,
Motions of a swinging Atwood's machine,
Journal de Physique 46, 1495 (1985).
File Name: sam_3.pdf

1984

N. B. Tufillaro, T. A. Abbott, and D. J. Griffiths,
Swinging Atwood's Machine,
American Journal of Physics 52 (10), 895 (1984).
File Name: sam_1.pdf

1983

N. B. Tufillaro and G. A. Ross,
Ode -- A program for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations,
Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum 83-52321-39 (1983).
File Name: ode_bell.pdf

N. B. Tufillaro, N. K. Dutta, D. P. Wilt, and R. J. Nelson,
Photoluminescence characterization of channeled substrate laser wafers,
Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum 83-52321-40 (1983).
File Name: pl_bell.pdf

1982

N. B. Tufillaro,
Smiles and Teardrops
Senior Thesis, Reed College Physics, 1982
File Name: sam_0.pdf

1981

Nicholas B. Tufillaro and G. Ross,
"Ode User's Manual" from Reed College 1981.
File Name: ode_1.pdf