Review of Scientific Instruments, 1999, V 70, N 2, Feb.

REVIEW ARTICLE


 Exponential analysis in physical phenomena
Andrei A. Istratov and Oleg F. Vyvenko
pp. 1233-1257


ARTICLES


OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY

 An active spectrometer
N. H. Brooks, D. F. Finkenthal, T. H. Jensen, N. N. Naumenko, and S.
N. Tugarinov
pp. 1258-1263

 Fabrication of binary phase surface relief
optical elements by selective deposition of dielectric layers
N. Davidson, R. Ozeri, and R. Baron
pp. 1264-1267

 Investigation of etched silicon wafers for
lobster-eye optics
A. G. Peele
pp. 1268-1273

 Characterization of a novel micromachined
optical vibrating rate gyroscope
D. J. Seter, O. Bochobza-Degani, E. Socher, S. Kaldor, E. Scher, and
Y. Nemirovsky
pp. 1274-1276

 Hyper-Rayleigh scattering using 1907 nm
laser excitation
M. A. Pauley and C. H. Wang
pp. 1277-1284

 Line focus system with a segmented prism
array for compact x-ray laser experiments
Naohiro Yamaguchi, Tadayuki Ohchi, Chiemi Fujikawa, Asuka Ogata,
Yoshiyuki Hisada, Kazunobu Okasaka, Tamio Hara, Teruyoshi Tsunashima,
and Yutaka Iizuka
pp. 1285-1287

 Monochromatic focusing of subpicosecond
x-ray pulses in the keV range
T. Missalla, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, G. Jenke, and D. von der Linde
pp. 1288-1299

 A cost-effective method for minimizing the
sphere-of-confusion error of x-ray microdiffractometers
I. C. Noyan, S. K. Kaldor, P.-C. Wang, and J. Jordan-Sweet
pp. 1300-1304

 Cavity ring down spectroscopy on radicals
in a supersonic slit nozzle discharge
Tomasz Motylewski and Harold Linnartz
pp. 1305-1312

 Single molecule force spectrometer with
magnetic force control and inductive detection
A. Schemmel and H. E. Gaub
pp. 1313-1317

 New design of a cryostat-mounted scanning
near-field optical microscope for single molecule spectroscopy
Yannig Durand, Jörg C. Woehl, Bertrand Viellerobe, Wolfgang Göhde, and
Michel Orrit
pp. 1318-1325

 Compact and freely movable single atom
detector
P. Westphal, S. Koch, A. Horn, J. Schmand, and H. J. Andrä
pp. 1326-1332

 Conceptual development and
characterization of a diamond-based ultraviolet detector
Wei Jiang, Jaeshine Ahn, Chan Yuen Chuen, and Lam Yee Loy
pp. 1333-1340

 A beam position sensor for low power
infrared laser diodes
Lorenzo Capineri, Leonardo Masotti, Marina Mazzoni, Guido Toci, and
Piero Mazzinghi
pp. 1341-1348

 Hydrostatic optical cell for temperatures
below 350 K and pressures to 400 MPa
J. Bruce Johnson
pp. 1349-1351

 Optoelectronic standardization of laser
Doppler perfusion monitors
A. Liebert, P. Lukasiewicz, D. Boggett, and R. Maniewski
pp. 1352-1354

CHARGED PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION

 Linac-based free electron lasers and
e-beam energy modulation
U. Bizzarri, G. Dattoli, and P. L. Ottaviani
pp. 1355-1358

 Peak-detector-hold based circuit for
trigger synchronization of the electron beam and wiggler in a
free-electron laser experiment
A. V. Ravi Kumar, K. K. Mohandas, K. Sathyanarayana, and K. K. Jain
pp. 1359-1361

 Emittance measurements of the
Sub-Picosecond Accelerator electron beam using beam position monitors
Steven J. Russell
pp. 1362-1366

 Effect of a metal-dielectric structure
introduced in the plasma chamber of the Frankfurt 14 GHz electron
cyclotron resonance ion source
L. Schächter, K. E. Stiebing, S. Dobrescu, Al. I. Badescu-Singureanu,
L. Schmidt, O. Hohn, and S. Runkel
pp. 1367-1369

 Atmospheric pressure ion focusing in a
high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometer
Roger Guevremont and Randy W. Purves
pp. 1370-1383

 Microwave diagnostics in electron
cyclotron resonance plasma sources
B. Larousse and P. Louvet
pp. 1384-1386

NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS

 Self-similarity of plasma networking in a
broad range of length scales: From laboratory to cosmic plasmas
A. B. Kukushkin and V. A. Rantsev-Kartinov
pp. 1387-1391

 Plasma networking in magnetically confined
plasmas and diagnostics of nonlocal heat transport in tokamak
filamentary plasmas
A. B. Kukushkin and V. A. Rantsev-Kartinov
pp. 1392-1396

 Overview of Korea Superconducting Tokamak
Advanced Research diagnostics
S. G. Lee, S. M. Hwang, B. C. Kim, H. G. Lee, H. K. Na, H. L. Yang, S.
J. Yoo, S. S. Medley, H. K. Park, and K. M. Young , the KSTAR Project
Team
pp. 1397-1401

 Effect of the sample volume splitting in
heavy ion-beam probing (HIBP) for spherical tokamaks (by the example
of HIBP for mega ampere spherical tokamak)
A. V. Melnikov and S. V. Perfilov
pp. 1402-1406

 Theoretical aspects of the use of pulsed
reflectometry in a spheromak plasma
Bruce I. Cohen, E. Bickford Hooper, M. C. Spang, and C. W. Domier
pp. 1407-1415

 Improved performance of the Thomson
scattering system in RFX
R. Pasqualotto, A. Sardella, A. Intravaia, and L. Marrelli
pp. 1416-1420

 Observations of a dynamical percolating
network in dense Z-pinch plasmas
A. B. Kukushkin and V. A. Rantsev-Kartinov
pp. 1421-1424

 Diagnostic characterization of a prepulsed
carbon fiber Z pinch using spectral line intensity analyses
A. Lorenz, N. J. Peacock, M. G. O'Mullane, and David Neely
pp. 1425-1429

 First measurement of tangential Faraday
rotation of CO2 laser wave in a tokamak plasma
Yasunori Kawano, Shin-ichi Chiba, Hiroshi Shirai, Akira Inoue, and
Akira Nagashima
pp. 1430-1434

 Instrumentation for a retarding potential
analyzer experiment. Part I. Ion parameters
S. S. Rajput and S. C. Garg
pp. 1435-1441

BASIC PHENOMENA

 Calibration of the distance between
electrodes of mechanically controlled break junctions using field
emission resonance
O. Yu. Kolesnychenko, O. I. Shklyarevskii, and H. van Kempen
pp. 1442-1446

 Intrinsic strain and temperature
characteristics of Yb-doped silica-based optical fibers
T. Sun, Z. Y. Zhang, K. T. V. Grattan, and A. W. Palmer
pp. 1447-1451

 Multiple-frequency continuous wave
ultrasonic system for accurate distance measurement
C. F. Huang, M. S. Young, and Y. C. Li
pp. 1452-1458

MICROSCOPY and IMAGING

 3He refrigerator based very low
temperature scanning tunneling microscope
S. H. Pan, E. W. Hudson, and J. C. Davis
pp. 1459-1463

CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS

 X-ray diagnostic applied to the study of
shock wave propagation in foams
D. Batani, M. Koenig, A. Benuzzi, J. M. Boudenne, G. Cauchon, T. Hall,
and W. Nazarov
pp. 1464-1467

 Ultrasonic measurement of stress in
railroad wheels
Raymond E. Schramm
pp. 1468-1472

 Convertible electrodynamic levitator trap
to quasielectrostatic levitator for microparticle nucleation studies
S. Arnold, N. L. Goddard, and N. Wotherspoon
pp. 1473-1477

 Ultrahigh vacuum/high pressure chamber for
surface x-ray diffraction experiments
P. Bernard, K. Peters, J. Alvarez, and S. Ferrer
pp. 1478-1480

 Improved apparatus and procedures for the
measurement of solubility of rapidly equilibrating solid-liquid
systems to 90 °C
S. G. Capewell, G. T. Hefter, and P. M. May
pp. 1481-1485

 An instrument for automatic measurements
of critical current of superconductors in pulse mode
S. C. Gadkari and S. K. Gupta
pp. 1486-1493

 Apparatus for vortex dynamics studies in
high Tc samples using close cycle refrigerator and rf oscillators
S. Patnaik, Kanwaljeet Singh, and R. C. Budhani
pp. 1494-1500

 A heatable large volume pressure cell for
neutron powder diffraction: The Kiel-Berlin Cell II
K. Knorr, B. Annighöfer, and W. Depmeier
pp. 1501-1504

 Electromagnetorheological suspensions and
inducted changes of their magnetic permeability and dielectric
constant
Stanis[l]aw Bednarek
pp. 1505-1510

 Digital quadrature detection in nuclear
magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Li Gengying and Xie Haibin
pp. 1511-1513

 Level meter for dielectric liquids
L. Bruschi, G. Delfitto, and G. Mistura
pp. 1514-1517

 Real-time and multipoint monitoring the
dissolution rate of photoresist film by using a novel plastic optical
fiber bundle
Jing Shyang Horng, Gong-Ru Lin, and C. W. Chen
pp. 1518-1521

 Production of uniform plasma with surface
electromagnetic wave launched by a waveguide-surfatron
Cong-Feng Wu, Ru-Juan Zhan, and Shuai Wu
pp. 1522-1524

 Gridless ionized metal flux fraction
measurement tool for use in ionized physical vapor deposition studies
T. G. Snodgrass, J. H. Booske, W. Wang, A. E. Wendt, and J. L. Shohet
pp. 1525-1529

 Dual-function circular polarization
converter for microwave/plasma processing systems
T. H. Chang, L. R. Barnett, K. R. Chu, F. Tai, and C. L. Hsu
pp. 1530-1534

CHEMISTRY

 Low cost phase-modulation measurements of
nanosecond fluorescence lifetimes using a lock-in amplifier
Peter Harms, Jeffrey Sipior, Natraj Ram, Gary M. Carter, and Govind
Rao
pp. 1535-1539

 High-pressure instrument for small- and
wide-angle x-ray scattering. II. Time-resolved experiments
M. Steinhart, M. Kriechbaum, K. Pressl, H. Amenitsch, P. Laggner, and
S. Bernstorff
pp. 1540-1545

BIOLOGY and MEDICINE

 Polarized 129Xe optical pumping/spin
exchange and delivery system for magnetic resonance spectroscopy and
imaging studies
M. S. Rosen, T. E. Chupp, K. P. Coulter, R. C. Welsh, and S. D.
Swanson
pp. 1546-1552

GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS

 Final isolation stage for a spherical
gravitational wave antenna
Stephen M. Merkowitz, Eugenio Coccia, Viviana Fafone, Guido Raffone,
Maria Schipilliti, and Massimo Visco
pp. 1553-1560

 Two-dimensional low-frequency vibration
attenuator using X pendulums
D. Tatsumi, Mark A. Barton, T. Uchiyama, and K. Kuroda
pp. 1561-1564

 New microhumidity field-effect transistor
sensor in ppmv level
Supratic Chakraborty, Kazuhiro Hara, and P. T. Lai
pp. 1565-1567

ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES

 Time-to-digital converter of very high
pulse stretching ratio for digital storage oscilloscopes
Keunoh Park and Jaehong Park
pp. 1568-1574

GENERAL INSTRUMENTS

 Automated liquid helium transfer system
G. Mark Cushman, Richard M. Gummer, Ernie Buchanan, Omar Jenkins, and
Tim Powers
pp. 1575-1576