Review of Scientific Instruments, 1999, V 70, N 11, November.


REVIEW ARTICLE

The superconducting gravimeter John M. Goodkind pp. 4131-4152


ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY
Construction and performance of a figure-8 undulator Takashi Tanaka, Toru Hara, Masaki Oura, Haruhiko Ohashi, Hiroaki Kimura, Shunji Goto, Yoshio Suzuki, and Hideo Kitamura pp. 4153-4160 X-ray focusing test and x-ray imaging test by a microcapillary x-ray lens at an undulator beamline Yoshiki Kohmura, Mitsuhiro Awaji, Yoshio Suzuki, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Yu. I. Dudchik, N. N. Kolchevsky, and F. F. Komarov pp. 4161-4167 High-efficiency Bragg–Fresnel lenses with 100 nm outermost zone width C. David and A. Souvorov pp. 4168-4173 Experimental study of self-injection locking oscillator on copper vapor laser Akira Ohzu, Masaaki Kato, Yoichiro Maruyama, and Takashi Arisawa pp. 4174-4177 Compact optical setup for forward-box degenerate four-wave mixing measurement Toshio Fukaya, Shinichiro Iwai, and Shigeo Murata pp. 4178-4179 A charge-coupled device-based laser photofragment fluorescence spectrometer for detection of mercury compounds Xiaomei Tong, Robert B. Barat, and Arthur T. Poulos pp. 4180-4184 A versatile source to produce high-intensity, pulsed supersonic radical beams for crossed-beam experiments: The cyanogen radical CN(X2+) as a case study R. I. Kaiser, J. W. Ting, L. C. L. Huang, N. Balucani, O. Asvany, Y. T. Lee, H. Chan, D. Stranges, and D. Gee pp. 4185-4191 Photo-induced dissociation of electrospray generated ions in an ion trap/time-of-flight mass spectrometer Wojciech Gabryelski and Liang Li pp. 4192-4199 Design and testing of a new magnetorheometer Aric B. Shorey, William I. Kordonski, Sergei R. Gorodkin, Stephen D. Jacobs, Roger F. Gans, Kevin M. Kwong, and Caleb H. Farny pp. 4200-4206
CHARGED PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION
Emission optics of the Steigerwald-type electron gun Chong-Yu Ruan and Manfred Fink pp. 4207-4212 Optimization of spherical deflecting analyzer with finite-size effects Chong-Yu Ruan, Scott Nguyen, and Manfred Fink pp. 4213-4220 Generation and characterization of high intensity electron beams generated from rough photocathodes V. Nassisi and M. R. Perrone pp. 4221-4224 High-efficiency spin-resolved and spin-integrated electron detection: Parallel mounting on a hemispherical analyzer G. Ghiringhelli, K. Larsson, and N. B. Brookes pp. 4225-4230 Variable geometry two mode levitation trap D. Babi and A. ade pp. 4231-4233 Correlation between the hot-electron dynamics and the afterglow currents in electron cyclotron resonance ion sources Masanori Kidera, Michele Lamoureux, Vladimir Mironov, Takahide Nakagawa, and Grigori Shirkov pp. 4234-4237 Absolute detection efficiency of a microchannel plate detector for kilo-electron volt energy ions H. C. Straub, M. A. Mangan, B. G. Lindsay, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings pp. 4238-4240
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
The polarizer-analyzer correction problem in neutron polarization analysis experiments A. R. Wildes pp. 4241-4245 Core correlation reflectometer at the JT-60U tokamak K. Shinohara, R. Nazikian, T. Fujita, and R. Yoshino pp. 4246-4250 Fast two-dimensional potential measurement at the thermal barrier region of the tandem mirror Gamma 10 N. Kikuno, K. Ishii, N. Ishibashi, M. Nagasaki, Y. Katsuki, T. Goto, Y. Goi, Y. Ono, M. Yamanashi, A. Nagao, T. Saito, Y. Tatematsu, A. Suzuki, A. Itakura, T. Tamano et al. pp. 4251-4259 Initial long-pulse plasma heating at reduced power with negative-ion-based neutral beam injector in large helical device Y. Takeiri, N. Noda, Y. Nakamura, Y. Oka, M. Osakabe, K. Kawahata, O. Kaneko, K. Tsumori, M. Sato, T. Mutoh, M. Goto, K. Ida, S. Inagaki, S. Kado, S. Masuzaki et al. pp. 4260-4265 An electrostatic probe with end plugs for measurements in a magnetized plasma V. I. Demidov, S. V. Ratynskaia, and K. Rypdal pp. 4266-4269 Estimation method for electron-hole pair density in plasma columns I. Kanno pp. 4270-4274
BASIC PHENOMENA
Optical detection of ultrasound with a phase-modulated Michelson interferometer Hidetoshi Nakano, Youichi Matsuda, and Satoshi Nagai pp. 4275-4278 Nd3 + -doped optical fiber temperature sensor using the fluorescence intensity ratio technique S. A. Wade, J. C. Muscat, S. F. Collins, and G. W. Baxter pp. 4279-4282 Apparatus for measuring thermodynamic properties at low temperatures J. E. Allen, Jr., R. N. Nelson, and B. C. Harris Sr. pp. 4283-4294 A method for determining orifice loss coefficients in strongly transient compressible liquid flows E. A. Moss and B. W. Skews pp. 4295-4299
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
Fast imaging and fast force spectroscopy of single biopolymers with a new atomic force microscope designed for small cantilevers M. B. Viani, T. E. Schäffer, G. T. Paloczi, L. I. Pietrasanta, B. L. Smith, J. B. Thompson, M. Richter, M. Rief, H. E. Gaub, K. W. Plaxco, A. N. Cleland, H. G. Hansma, and P. K. Hansma pp. 4300-4303 Low-energy electron point source microscope with position-sensitive electron energy analyzer Jeong-Young Park, S. H. Kim, Y. D. Suh, W. G. Park, and Y. Kuk pp. 4304-4307 Spectroscopic gas-flow imaging through an infrared optical fiber bundle Mitsunori Saito, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Chinari Tanaka, Hiroshi Sone, Shozo Morimoto, Toshiharu Yamashita, and Junji Nishii pp. 4308-4312
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
A novel pulling device for crystal growth Yizong He and Fang Zhou pp. 4313-4315 Resistance heating of the gasket in a gem-anvil high pressure cell N. M. Balzaretti, E. J. Gonzalez, G. J. Piermarini, and T. P. Russell pp. 4316-4323 Simple apparatus for contact angle measurements by the heavy drop method A. Viallet, E. Rousset, and G. Baudin pp. 4324-4327 Transparent, conducting, metallic thin films M. Avrekh, B. M. Thibadeau, O. R. Monteiro, and I. G. Brown pp. 4328-4330 Elastic mid-infrared light scattering: A basis for microscopy of large-scale electrically active defects in semiconducting materials V. P. Kalinushkin, V. A. Yuryev, and O. V. Astafiev pp. 4331-4343 Design of a scanning Josephson junction microscope for submicron-resolution magnetic imaging B. L. T. Plourde and D. J. Van Harlingen pp. 4344-4347 A cryogenic microwave scanning near-field probe: Application to study of high-Tc superconductors A. F. Lann, M. Abu-Teir, M. Golosovsky, D. Davidov, S. Djordjevic, N. Bontemps, and L. F. Cohen pp. 4348-4355 Laser-pulse technique for measuring the thermal diffusivity of substrate-supported polymer films E. K. Hobbie and A. S. De Reggi pp. 4356-4358 Pure high dose metal ion implantation using the plasma immersion technique T. Zhang, B. Y. Tang, Z. M. Zeng, T. K. Kwok, P. K. Chu, O. R. Monteiro, and I. G. Brown pp. 4359-4361 An ultrahigh vacuum sputtering system with offset incidence magnetron sources onto a rotating substrate Toshiyuki Fujimoto, Boquan Li, Isao Kojima, Syuu-ichi Yokoyama, and Syun-ichi Murakami pp. 4362-4365 A design of a nanometer size metal particle generator: Thermal decomposition of metal carbonyls S. H. Huh, S. J. Oh, Y. N. Kim, and G. H. Lee pp. 4366-4369
CHEMISTRY
Detectivity comparison between thin-film Pd/PVDF photopyroelectric interferometric and optical reflectance hydrogen sensors Chinhua Wang, Andreas Mandelis, and Jose A. Garcia pp. 4370-4376
BIOLOGY and MEDICINE
An instrument for performing laser capture microdissection of single cells Seth R. Goldstein, Thomas Pohida, Paul D. Smith, John I. Peterson, Ed Wellner, Arash Malekafzali, Carlos A. Suarez-Quian, and Robert F. Bonner pp. 4377-4385 A passive two-band sensor of sunlight-excited plant fluorescence Paul L. Kebabian, Arnold F. Theisen, Spiros Kallelis, and Andrew Freedman pp. 4386-4393 A 4 g, battery-powered, data logger accelerometer for free-flying birds Vance A. Tucker pp. 4394-4397 Peltier-effect module for highly localized temperature manipulations Lei Huang, Wanjun Wang, and Michael C. Murphy pp. 4398-4403
GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS
Sputtering efficiency of LiF surfaces on impact of low energy neutral helium (20–80 eV): Calibration of the interstellar neutral helium instrument on ULYSSES M. Witte, S. Bleszyski, M. Banaszkiewicz, and H. Rosenbauer pp. 4404-4411 Determination of fundamental frequency of a physical oscillator by the period fitting method Zhong-Kun Hu and Jun Luo pp. 4412-4415 Direct ultrasonic measurement of solid propellant ballistics Roberto Di Salvo, Frédéric Dauch, Robert A. Frederick, Jr., and Marlow D. Moser pp. 4416-4421
ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
Design of a programmable timing unit Richard W. Quine, James R. Harbridge, Sandra S. Eaton, and Gareth R. Eaton pp. 4422-4432
NOTES

Stop-motion illuminator for centrifuges Pavel E. Moroz pp. 4433-4434 Increasing the frequency of surface acoustic waves generated by phase velocity scanning of laser interference fringes Harumichi Sato, Hisato Ogiso, Akira Yabe, and Kazushi Yamanaka pp. 4435-4436 A vacuum chamber with a radial rotating port S. G. Lee and J. G. Bak pp. 4437-4438