1997: Proceedings of the 15th National Physics Congress of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science

A high-temperature ultrasonic interferometer

Joseph Scheiter

SPP-1997-CM-01
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On the electrical resistance of cold-pressed-annealed Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+δ superconductor under low magnetic fields

Pablo P. Saligan, Ken Koizumi, Natsuki Mori, Hajime Ozaki

SPP-1997-CM-02
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Flux growth of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O (2212) single crystals with temperature cycling

Jean N. Laniog, Roland V. Sarmago

SPP-1997-CM-03
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The growth of c-axis oriented Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+δ thick films from melts with yttrium oxide (Y₂O₃) addition grown by Liquid Phase Epitaxy (LPE)

Michelle F. Bailon, Roland V. Sarmago

SPP-1997-CM-04
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Preparation and characterization of mercury (Hg) doped BSCCO superconductors

Wilson Chong, Hanzel Florentin, Alex Quema, Reuben Quiroga

SPP-1997-CM-05
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Sputtered aluminum film on copper substrate: Investigation on the growth kinetics, intrinsic stress, and interfacial bonding

Alipio T. Garcia, Armando S. Somintac, Paul Eric Parañal, Roland V. Sarmago

SPP-1997-CM-06
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Unseeded vapor deposition of polycrystalline Pb_1−xSn_xTe

Gil Nonato C. Santos, Reuben Quiroga, Jose Omar Amistoso, Anthony Montecillo, Roland V. Sarmago

SPP-1997-CM-07
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Surface analysis of UV-aligned polyimide for liquid crystal alignment

Deña Mae G. Agra, Zenaida B. Domingo, John L. West, Satyendra Kumar

SPP-1997-CM-08
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Soft pinning and the two-step T_c transition of granular ceramic superconductors

Sersita Suzette Q. Atienza, Marie Josephine Madriñan-de Luna, Roland V. Sarmago

SPP-1997-CM-09
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Instrumentation and Computational Physics

Short-cavity length Fabry-Perot fiber-optic temperature or strain sensor

Neil Raymund Y. Caranto, Ssenyomo Charles Kaddu, David J. Booth

SPP-1997-IC-01
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Cloud optical and physical properties derived from lidar measurements

Susana V. Dorado, Nofel C. Lagrosas, John L. Holdsworth, Minella C. Alarcon

SPP-1997-IC-02
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Recovery of lost signal features without a priori knowledge

Gemma Narisma, Mary Ann Nazario, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-IC-03
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Detection of sub-threshold oscillations in the presence of strong signals

Marisciel Litong, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-IC-04
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Detection of surface defects on carbon black samples by the piezoelectric photoacoustic technique

Jose Raymund Librodo, Marlon Rosendo H. Daza

SPP-1997-IC-05
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Compression of vector confocal and video images of microscopic objects by quantization and image resampling

Felicisimo Domingo, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-IC-06
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Direct signal recovery trade-offs in threshold crossing sampling

May Lim, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-IC-07
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Robust color image recognition with principal component analysis and neural networks

Luisa Garcia, Maricor Soriano, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-IC-08
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Noise-aided detection of subthreshold transmittances by a one-bit AD converter

Almar Palonpon, Rex Absin, Jose Omar Amistoso, Wilson Garcia, John Holdsworth, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-IC-09
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Solving the nonlinear Schroedinger equation by neural neworks

Christopher Monterola, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-IC-10
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Comparison of single and two-photon fluorescence imaging using Monte Carlo techniques

Carlo Mar Blanca, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-IC-11
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Optics and Photonics

New improvements in the design of Raman spectrometers

Anh Tuan Nguyen, Joel Oswalt

SPP-1997-OP-01
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4Pi confocal fluorescence microscope with a phase conjugate mirror

Katsumasa Fujita, Osamu Nakamura, Satoshi Kawata, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-OP-02
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lmaging properties of a Raman confocal-theta microscope

Ma. Obiminda Cambaliza, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-OP-03
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Real time control of the deposition of optical coatings by multiwavelength ellipsometry

Ramdane Benferhat, Bernard Drévillon

SPP-1997-OP-04
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Subpicosecond timing stabilization of solid-state pumped Ti:sapphire lasers

William C. Wells, Kevin K. Holsinger, Patrick R. Carden, Bruce B. Craig, James D. Kafka

SPP-1997-OP-05
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High power diode laser arrays, fiber-coupled arrays and 2-D stacks

Shantanu Gupta, Swaminathan Srinivasan, Xiaoguang He, Michael Ung, Deepak Boggavarapu, David Caffey, Krista McEuen, Rushikesh Patel

SPP-1997-OP-06
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A 6 mJ TEA nitrogen laser

Edgardo L. Pabit, Wilson O. Garcia

SPP-1997-OP-07
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Injection locking in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Dioscoro I. Villagonzalo

SPP-1997-OP-08
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Spectral and output power dynamics of a laser diode in an optical feedback confocal microscope

Marlon Rosendo Daza, Alvarado Tarun, Katsumasa Fujita, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-OP-09
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Cavity ring-down spectroscopy of a van der Waals molecule

John L. Holdsworth, Andreas Michael Versluis, James L. Springfield, Angelo Uichangco, T. T. Tran, Alan E. W. Knight

SPP-1997-OP-10
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Laser cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms

Wilbert Rooijakkers, Gerrit J. Kuik, Wim Vassen, Wim Hogervorst

SPP-1997-OP-11
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Dye induced reorientation in methyl red-E7 guest-host system

Rasmia M. Lalanto, Anthony G. Montecillo, Marlon Rosendo H. Daza, Manuela Fe H. Tarroja-Keller, Leonorina G. Cada, Zenaida B. Domingo

SPP-1997-OP-12
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Amplification of light by a drift-type photorefractive crystal

Manuela Fe H. Tarroja-Keller, Darwin Palima, Joshua Natividad, Raphael Guerrero, Sarkhan Baun

SPP-1997-OP-13
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Characterization of low-lying ungerade Rydberg and valence states in molecular chlorine by REMPI-PES

Gerrit J. Kuik, Burgard Koenders, Derk M. Wieringa, Karel E. Drabe, Cees A. de Lange

SPP-1997-OP-14
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Spatio-temporal behavior of focused Gaussian beam pulses in a Kerr medium

Pavel Ivanoff Reyes, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-OP-15
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Spectroscopic studies on the sidelight emisson spectrum of a sealed-off CO₂ laser

Vanessa F. de Villa, Jose Omar S. Amistoso, Marlon Rosendo H. Daza

SPP-1997-OP-16
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SNR compensation for 3D imaging of turbid biological samples by two-photon fluorescence excitation

Vincent Ricardo Daria, Cynthia Palmes-Saloma, Osamu Nakamura, Satoshi Kawata, Caesar Saloma

SPP-1997-OP-17
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Physics Education

Computers as a modern teaching tool in physics laboratories: Advantages, barriers and keys to success

Laurie Chiu-Mar

SPP-1997-ED-01
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GPIB and its application in physics education

Leandro Jose D. Guerra, Roland V. Sarmago

SPP-1997-ED-02
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Corridor demonstration experiments (CDE)

Pio G. Panti, Norberto S. Tecson, Carlos M. Oppus

SPP-1997-ED-03
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Philippine participation in the International Physics Olympiad: Problems, lessons, prospects, and imperatives for the Philippine physics community

Jose Perico H. Esguerra

SPP-1997-ED-04
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Problems and prospects in Philippine physics education

Ed van den Berg

SPP-1997-ED-05
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Improving teaching in the laboratory: Old problems, new perspectives

Ed van den Berg

SPP-1997-ED-06
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A survey on the learning styles of students and teaching styles of science teachers in private and public secondary schools

Bee Ching U. Ong Kian Koc

SPP-1997-ED-07
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Teaching physics for non-Science Majors with Hewitt's Conceptual Physics

Rosea L. van den Berg-Aguilar, Ed van den Berg

SPP-1997-ED-08
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Plasma Physics

Design and construction of a computer-controlled data acquisition system for use on a Langmuir probe

Fernando F. Garcia, Henry Ramos, Roy Tumlos

SPP-1997-PP-01
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System diagnostics for high-vacuum facility

Alipio T. Garcia, Danilo F. Gayagoy, Armando S. Somintac, Roland V. Sarmago

SPP-1997-PP-02
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Detection and analysis of plasma species using a compact mass spectrometer

Alexander G. Mendenilla, Rainier L. Awayan, Henry J. Ramos

SPP-1997-PP-03
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Theoretical Physics

New directions in turbulence experlments

Amador Muriel

SPP-1997-TP-01
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Convergence of perturbation theory, an analytic study

Lorenzo Chan

SPP-1997-TP-02
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Time evolution of one dimensional gases with long and short range potentials

Agnes Miciano-Cariño, Amador C. Muriel, Ricolindo L. Cariño

SPP-1997-TP-03
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Thermodynamics and liquid-vapor phase transition for the Lu-Marlow potential

Luis Ma. Bo-ot, Ludek Jirkovsky

SPP-1997-TP-04
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Peierls instability in the slave boson formulation via path integrals

Danilo M. Yanga, Augusto A. Morales, Jr.

SPP-1997-TP-05
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Photon: Electromagnetic particle-wave solution to the homogenous classical wave equation in a real geometric algebra formalism

Quirino M. Sugon, Jr.

SPP-1997-TP-06
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Compounded infinitesimal Hamiltonian perturbations: A model of Hamiltonian transitions by a continuous perturbation on a free Hamiltonian

Eric A. Galapon

SPP-1997-TP-07
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A model for the Poiseuille flow

Ludek Jirkovsky, Luis Ma. Bo-ot

SPP-1997-TP-08
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Spin polarons in high T_c superconductors

Augusto A. Morales, Jr., Danilo M. Yanga

SPP-1997-TP-09
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Inverse commutation approach to classical and quantum time functions

Eric A. Galapon

SPP-1997-TP-10
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Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of one-dimensional gases confined by perfectly reflecting walls

Jose Perico H. Esguerra, Lawrence Gene Posada

SPP-1997-TP-11
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Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science

Instrumentation and Computational Physics

Optics and Photonics

Physics Education

Plasma Physics

Theoretical Physics

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