Review of Scientific Instruments, 2000, V 71, N 10, October.
REVIEW ARTICLE
 Josephson voltage standards
Clark A. Hamilton
pp. 3611-3623
ARTICLES
OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY
 Performance of a CsI photocathode in a hard x-ray streak camera
Toru Hara, Yoshihito Tanaka, Hideo Kitamura, and Tetsuya Ishikawa
pp. 3624-3626
 Characterization of a subpicosecond x-ray streak camera for ultrashort
laser-produced plasmas experiments
P. Gallant, P. Forget, F. Dorchies, Z. Jiang, J. C. Kieffer, P. A.
Jaanimagi, J. C. Rebuffie, C. Goulmy, J. F. Pelletier, and M. Sutton
pp. 3627-3633
 Experimental determination of the transmission factor for the Omicron
 EA125 electron analyzer
P. Ruffieux, P. Schwaller, O. Gröning, L. Schlapbach, P. Gröning, Q.
C. Herd, D. Funnemann, and J. Westermann
pp. 3634-3639
 Electron-yield x-ray absorption spectroscopy with gas microstrip detectors
Trevor Rayment, Sven L. M. Schroeder, Geoffrey D. Moggridge, J. Edmond
Bateman, Gareth E. Derbyshire, and Richard Stephenson
pp. 3640-3645
 An extended-cavity diode laser with a circular output beam
G. P. T. Lancaster, W. Sibbett, and K. Dholakia
pp. 3646-3647
 A simple system of thermal control and frequency stabilization of solitary 
diode lasers
E. Andreoni, J. H. Xu, S. Cartaleva, R. M. Celli, F. Mango, and S.Gozzini
pp. 3648-3652
 A modified Seya-Namioka monochromator with improved light intensity transfer
Anthony M. Maletta and Philip M. Johnson
pp. 3653-3656
 Automatic and autonomous infrared system for remote sensing of forest fires
M. F. Ugarte, A. J. de Castro, S. Briz, J. M. Aranda, and F. López
pp. 3657-3661
PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION
 A cold-cathode source of low-energy low-divergent broad ion beams
N. V. Gavrilov, D. R. Emlin, and S. V. Kuleshov
pp. 3662-3667
 Continuous, dense, highly collimated sodium beam
W. DeGraffenreid, J. Ramirez-Serrano, Y.-M. Liu, and J. Weiner
pp. 3668-3676
 Development of the Los Alamos continuous high average-power microsecond
pulser ion accelerator
L. J. Bitteker, B. P. Wood, H. A. Davis, W. J. Waganaar, I. D. Boyd, 
and R. H. Lovberg
pp. 3677-3683
 Transverse magnetic field propellant isolator
John E. Foster
pp. 3684-3688
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
 Optimization and enhancement of H- ions in a magnetized sheet plasma
Yohannes Abate and Henry J. Ramos
pp. 3689-3695
 Infrared imaging video bolometer
B. J. Peterson
pp. 3696-3701
 Description and optimization of a wall-stabilized arc chamber
S. Brugeat, H. Coitout, and M. J. Parizet
pp. 3702-3705
 IRMA: A tunable infrared multicomponent acquisition system for plasma 
diagnostics
J. Röpcke, L. Mechold, M. Käning, J. Anders, F. G. Wienhold, 
D.Nelson, and M. Zahniser
pp. 3706-3710
 Energy and spatial resolved measurement of soft x-ray emission with
photon counting x-ray charge coupled device camera in compact helical system
Y. Liang, K. Ida, S. Kado, I. Nomura, and T. Minami
pp. 3711-3717
 Advanced impurity measurement for deuterium-tritium-burning plasmas
using pulsed CO2 laser collective Thomson scattering
S. Lee and T. Kondoh
pp. 3718-3722
 Helium doped hydrogen or deuterium beam as cost effective and simple tool
for plasma spectroscopy
H. D. Falter, M. Proschek, S. Menhart, F. Aumayr, HP. Winter, D.
Ciric, S. Cox, A. Dines, D. Godden, N. Hawkes, and T. T. C. Jones
pp. 3723-3727
 Radio frequency ion source for plasma diagnostics in magnetic fusion 
experiments
A. A. Ivanov, V. I. Davydenko, P. P. Deichuli, A. Kreter, V. V.
Mishagin, A. A. Podminogin, I. V. Shikhovtsev, B. Schweer, and R.Uhlemann
pp. 3728-3735
 Impact strength of cryogenic deuterium pellets for injection into tokamak 
plasmas
A. Lorenz, P. T. Lang, and R. S. Lang
pp. 3736-3743
 Improved stop cylinder loading scheme for a centrifuge pellet accelerator
P. T. Lang, P. Cierpka, L. Horton, A. Lorenz, M. J. Watson, P. Twynam,
A. Walden, S. Wijetunge, B. Willis, N. Hosogane, H. Hiratsuka, and K.Kizu
pp. 3744-3746
 Transport process of high-speed impurity pellets through curved guide tubes
Hitoshi Nihei, Yuichi Ogawa, Toru Nakajima, and Shigeru Morita
pp. 3747-3757
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
 "Detector walk" in position-sensitive detectors with biased microchannel plates
A. S. Tremsin, J. V. Vallerga, and O. H. W. Siegmund
pp. 3758-3761
 Million frames per second infrared imaging system
Alan T. Zehnder, Pradeep R. Guduru, Ares J. Rosakis, and G.Ravichandran
pp. 3762-3768
 Experimental determination of scanning probe microscope cantilever spring 
constants utilizing a nanoindentation apparatus
J. D. Holbery, V. L. Eden, M. Sarikaya, and R. M. Fisher
pp. 3769-3776
 A high pressure, high temperature, scanning tunneling microscope for in situ 
studies of catalysts
Brandon L. Weeks, Colm Durkan, Hiromi Kuramochi, Mark E. Welland, and 
Trevor Rayment
pp. 3777-3781
 Cryogenic magnetic force microscope
M. Roseman and P. Grütter
pp. 3782-3787
 Spring constant measurement of a bent near-field optical fiber probe
Sy-Hann Chen, Heh-Nan Lin, and Pang-Ming Ong
pp. 3788-3790
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
 Electromagnetic levitation apparatus for investigations of the phase selection 
in undercooled melts by energy-dispersive x-ray diffraction
C. Notthoff, H. Franz, M. Hanfland, D. M. Herlach, D. Holland-Moritz, 
and W. Petry
pp. 3791-3796
 Polarized reflectometer for the investigation of surface magnetism, the new 
polarized neutron reflectometer with polarization analysis at the Laboratoire 
Léon Brillouin
C. Fermon, F. Ott, G. Legoff, H. Glättli, and V. Wintenberger
pp. 3797-3800
 Three-configurational surface magneto-optical Kerr effect measurement system 
for an ultrahigh vacuum in situ study of ultrathin magnetic films
J.-W. Lee, J.-R. Jeong, D.-H. Kim, J. S. Ahn, J. Kim, and S.-C. Shin
pp. 3801-3805
 Nondestructive evaluation of steel
structures using a superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer
 and a neural network system
C. Hall Barbosa, M. Vellasco, M. A. Pacheco, A. C. Bruno, and C. S. Camerini
pp. 3806-3815
 High precision ac susceptometer for measuring the temperature and magnetic 
field dependence of the penetration depth in superconductor single crystals
C. P. Bidinosti and W. N. Hardy
pp. 3816-3821
 Simultaneous measurement of liquid density and viscosity using remote query 
magnetoelastic sensors
Craig A. Grimes, Dimitris Kouzoudis, and Casey Mungle
pp. 3822-3824
 High magnetic field corrections to resistance thermometers for low temperature 
Calorimetry Nathanael Fortune, Gayle Gossett, Lydia Peabody, Katherine Lehe, 
S.Uji, and H. Aoki
pp. 3825-3830
 High-energy (e, 2e) spectrometer for the study of the spectral momentum density 
of materials
M. Vos, G. P. Cornish, and E. Weigold
pp. 3831-3840
 A modified dual-slope method for heat capacity measurements of condensable gases
S. Pilla, J. A. Hamida, and N. S. Sullivan
pp. 3841-3845
 All-optical technique for measuring
thermal properties of materials at static high pressure
G. I. Pangilinan, H. D. Ladouceur, and T. P. Russell
pp. 3846-3852
 Separation of thermal wave induced displacements and thermoreflectance 
variations using a rotated beamsplitter cube interferometer
C. J. Fiedler, J. W. Wagner, and K. E. Henseler
pp. 3853-3859
 Near-field acoustic densimeter and viscosimeter
R. Patois, P. Vairac, and B. Cretin
pp. 3860-3863
CHEMISTRY
 Real-time precision concentration measurement for flowing liquid solutions
V. Krishna, C. H. Fan, and J. P. Longtin
pp. 3864-3868
 Design and characterization of collimated effusive gas beam sources: Effect of 
source dimensions and backing pressure on total flow and beam profile
Jeffrey M. Guevremont, Stanley Sheldon, and Francisco Zaera
pp. 3869-3881
 High-pressure photoacoustic calorimetry
John A. Daffron, Gerard J. Farrell, and Theodore J. Burkey
pp. 3882-3885
 A fast-response chemical ionization mass spectrometer for in situ measurements 
of HNO3 in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere
J. A. Neuman, R. S. Gao, M. E. Schein, S. J. Ciciora, J. C. Holecek,
T. L. Thompson, R. H. Winkler, R. J. McLaughlin, M. J. Northway, E. C.Richard, 
and D. W. Fahey
pp. 3886-3894
BIOLOGY and MEDICINE
 High pressure-jump apparatus for kinetic studies of protein folding reactions 
using the small-angle synchrotron x-ray scattering technique
J. Woenckhaus, R. Köhling, R. Winter, P. Thiyagarajan, and S. Finet
pp. 3895-3899
 A compact x-ray system for macromolecular crystallography
Mikhail Gubarev, Ewa Ciszak, Igor Ponomarev, Walter Gibson, and Marshall Joy
pp. 3900-3904
GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS
 Trifilar torsion pendulum for measurement of dissipation caused by an electric 
field
V. P. Mitrofanov and N. A. Styazhkina
pp. 3905-3909
 Computer monitoring and control of the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector
M. M. Casey, H. Ward, and D. I. Robertson
pp. 3910-3917
ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
 Direct coupling of high-speed optical detector preamplifiers
Samuel I. Green
pp. 3918-3920
 Preamplifier and AD converter system for infrared focal plane arrays
G. Penegor, E. H. Wishnow, and W. C. Danchi
pp. 3921-3926
 Microwave near-field imaging of conducting objects of a simple geometric shape
M. Golosovsky, A. F. Lann, D. Davidov, and A. Frenkel
pp. 3927-3932
GENERAL INSTRUMENTS
 Laser vector measurement technique for the determination and compensation of 
volumetric positioning errors. Part I: Basic theory
Charles Wang
pp. 3933-3937
 Laser vector measurement technique for the determination and compensation of 
volumetric position errors. Part II:Experimental verification
John Janeczko, Bob Griffin, and Charles Wang
pp. 3938-3941
 A falling head permeameter for the measurement of the hydraulic conductivity of 
granular solids
M. A. Wilson, W. D. Hoff, R. J. E. Brown, and M. A. Carter
pp. 3942-3946
 Development and evaluation of a surface acoustic intensity probe
Patricia L. Driesch, Hisao Iwata, Gary H. Koopmann, and Jeff Dosch
pp. 3947-3952
NOTES
 Surface roughness measurement on microchannels by atomic force microscopy using 
a bent tapered fiber probe
Sy-Hann Chen, Heh-Nan Lin, and Chii-Ron Yang
pp. 3953-3954
 Calibration of piezoelectric bimorphs for experiments in a surface forces apparatus
Sung Chul Bae and Steve Granick
pp. 3955-3957
 Protected sample mount for vibrating sample magnetometer
Vasiliy T. Gretchnev
p. 3958
 Explosively driven fast closing blast shutter
E. L. Ruden and D. G. Gale
pp. 3959-3961
 Sources of resonance-related errors in capacitance versus voltage measurement 
systems
Igor Polishchuk, George Brown, and Howard Huff
pp. 3962-3963
 On the calculation of the geometric factor in a van der Pauw sheet resistance
measurement
Winston K. Chan
pp. 3964-3965
ERRATA
 Erratum: "Microtensile device for stress-elongation tests on nonstandard 
specimens" [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71, 2526 (2000)]
F. P. Branca and F. Marinozzi
p. 3966