Review of Scientific Instruments, 2003, V 74, N 2, February.

 A review of symbolic analysis of experimental data
C. S. Daw, C. E. A. Finney, and E. R. Tracy
pp. 915-930

ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON DETECTORS

 Optimization of a focusing monochromator
K. Mergia and S. Messoloras
pp. 931-937

 A laboratory apparatus for the measurement of optical extinction coefficients 
of postflame soot in the infrared
John F. Widmann, Jiann C. Yang, Matthew Bundy, Benjamin K. Tsai, and George W. Mulholland
pp. 938-944

 Continuous pulse duration variation in quenched cavity dye laser
Young-Woo Lee and Yong-Pyung Kim
pp. 945-950

PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION; PARTICLE DETECTORS

 Characteristics of an E?B probe for extraction of H- ions from a magnetized 
sheet plasma source
Marko E. Arciaga, Alexander G. Mendenilla, and Henry J. Ramos
pp. 951-955

 Minimono: An ultracompact permanent magnet ion source for singly charged ions
G. Gaubert, C. Baru, C. Canet, J. Cornell, M. Dupuis, W. Farabolini, J. L. 
Flambard, P. Gorel, P. Jardin, N. Lecesne, P. Leherissier, F. Lemagnen, 
R. Leroy, J. Y. Pacquet, M. G. Saint-Laurent et al.
pp. 956-960

NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS

 A thermoluminescence detector-based few-channel spectrometer for simultaneous 
detection of electrons and photons from relativistic laser-produced plasmas
R. Behrens, H. Schwoerer, S. Du"sterer, P. Ambrosi, G. Pretzler, S. Karsch, and 
R. Sauerbrey
pp. 961-968

 Spatial characterization of extreme ultraviolet plasmas generated by laser 
excitation of xenon gas targets
Sebastian Kranzusch, Christian Peth, and Klaus Mann
pp. 969-974

 Spectrometry of charged particles from inertial-confinement-fusion plasmas
F. H. Se'guin, J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, D. G. Hicks, S. Kurebayashi, J. R. Rygg, 
B.-E. Schwartz, R. D. Petrasso, S. Roberts, J. M. Soures, D. D. Meyerhofer,
 T. C. Sangster, J. P. Knauer, C. Sorce, V. Yu. Glebov et al.
pp. 975-995

 Plasma interferometry at high pressures
Kamran Akhtar, John E. Scharer, Shane M. Tysk, and Enny Kho
pp. 996-1001

 Tomographic imaging of electron distributions: Leveraging computing power 
advances to produce inexpensive, low-power, lightweight, and robust 
instrumentation
Michael R. Collier, Dennis J. Chornay, John W. Keller, Michael Coplan, Norman J. 
Dionne, Brahim El Marji, Federico Herrero, Joe Hirman, Jeffrey Houser, John 
Moore, and James A. Slavin
pp. 1002-1007

MICROSCOPY and IMAGING

Approach for investigating the astigmatism of a magnetic prism in low-energy 
electron microscopy
H.-C. Kan, Daniel Auerbach, and R. J. Phaneuf
pp. 1008-1015

 Low noise current-to-voltage converter and vibration damping system for a low-
temperature ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope
Laurent Libioulle, Alexandra Radenovic, Eva Bystrenova, and Giovanni Dietler
pp. 1016-1021

 A low-temperature ultrahigh vacuum atomic force microscope for biological 
applications
Alexandra Radenovic, Eva Bystrenova', Laurent Libioulle, Mauro Taborelli,
James A. DeRose, and Giovanni Dietler
pp. 1022-1026

 A double lamellae dropoff etching procedure for tungsten tips attached to 
tuning fork atomic force microscopy/scanning tunneling microscopy sensors
M. Kulawik, M. Nowicki, G. Thielsch, L. Cramer, H.-P. Rust, H.-J. Freund,
T. P. Pearl, and P. S. Weiss
pp. 1027-1030

 Piezoresistive detection of acoustic waves
A. Passian, P. G. Evans, V. K. Varma, T. L. Ferrell, and T. Thundat
pp. 1031-1035

CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS

 Multiple sample manipulator with five degrees of freedom for angle-resolved 
spectroscopy in ultrahigh vacuum
C. C. Finstad, M. J. Schabel, and A. J. Muscat
pp. 1036-1042

 A technique to measure Poisson's ratio of ultrathin polymeric films using 
atomic force microscopy
Bharat Bhushan, Prasad S. Mokashi, and Tiejun Ma
pp. 1043-1047

 Elemental analysis of multilayer samples by means of combined laser ablation 
and x-ray fluorescence spectrometry
C. Fiorini, A. Gianoncelli, A. Longoni, D. Comelli, C. D'Andrea, and G. 
Valentini
pp. 1048-1056

 An aerodynamic levitation system for drop tube and quenching experiments
Yasutomo Arai, Paul-Franc,ois Paradis, Tomotsugu Aoyama, Takehiko Ishikawa, and 
Shinichi Yoda
pp. 1057-1063

CHEMISTRY

 Clipping the tail of a TE-CO2 laser pulse using a gas breakdown technique for 
high resolution chemical plume detection
Carlo Bellecci, Ida Bellucci, Pasqualino Gaudio, Sergio Martellucci, Giovanni 
Petrocelli, and Maria Richetta
pp. 1064-1069

 Proof-of-principle laser-induced fluorescence measurements of gas distributions 
from supersonic nozzles
B. H. Failor, S. Chantrenne, P. L. Coleman, J. S. Levine, Y. Song, and H. M. Sze
pp. 1070-1076

BIOLOGY and MEDICINE

 A paralleled readout system for an electrical DNA-hybridization assay based on 
a microstructured electrode array
Matthias Urban, Robert Mo"ller, and Wolfgang Fritzsche
pp. 1077-1081

GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS

 Balloon borne optical particle counter for stratospheric observation
Takeshi Kasai, Masayoshi Tsuchiya, Katsumi Takami, Masahiko Hayashi, and 
Yasunobu Iwasaka
pp. 1082-1092

ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES

 Electric field measurement using a hybrid optical instrument
Youl-Moon Sung, Ryusuke Kuroki, Masahisa Otsubo, and Chikahisa Honda
pp. 1093-1097

 Method and apparatus to measure electromagnetic interference shielding 
efficiency and its shielding characteristics in broadband frequency ranges
Y. K. Hong, C. Y. Lee, C. K. Jeong, D. E. Lee, K. Kim, and J. Joo
pp. 1098-1102

THERMOMETRY; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; ACOUSTIC; PHOTOTHERMAL and PHOTOACOUSTIC

 Determination of accommodation coefficients of translational and internal 
energy using a thin wire in a free-molecular flow
A. K. Rebrov, A. A. Morozov, M. Yu. Plotnikov, N. I. Timoshenko, and
V. A. Maltsev
pp. 1103-1106

 Noncontact technique for determining the thermal diffusivity coefficient on 
acoustically levitated liquid drops
K. Ohsaka, A. Rednikov, and S. S. Sadhal
pp. 1107-1112

GENERAL INSTRUMENTS

 DoseSim: Microsoft-Windows graphical user interface for using synchrotron x-ray 
exposure and subsequent development in the LIGA process
P. Meyer, J. Schulz, and L. Hahn
pp. 1113-1119

 Piezoelectric droplet ejector for ink-jet printing of fluids and solid particles
Go"khan Perc,in and Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub
pp. 1120-1127

 A time- and energy-resolving, multichannel event logger
B. W. Adams
pp. 1128-1134

 25 ns software correlator for photon and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Davide Magatti and Fabio Ferri
pp. 1135-1144

NOTES

 Low noise, low power consumption high electron mobility transistors amplifier, 
for temperatures below 1 K
N. Oukhanski, M. Grajcar, E. Il'ichev, and H.-G. Meyer
pp. 1145-1146

 Development of an electrostatic levitator for neutron diffraction structure analysis
Hirokatsu Aoki, Paul-Franc,ois Paradis, Takehiko Ishikawa, Tomotsugu Aoyama, 
Tadahiko Masaki, Shinich Yoda, Yoshinobu Ishii, and Toshio Itami
pp. 1147-1149

 A microcontroller-based failsafe for single photon counting modules
Matthew P. Gordon and Paul R. Selvin
pp. 1150-1152

 Probes for high-frequency measurements in a plasma gun
Tomas Hurtig and Jan Wistedt
pp. 1153-1155

 Performance of laminar-type holographic grating for a soft x-ray flat-field 
spectrograph in the 0.7-6 nm region
Masato Koike, Kazuo Sano, Eric Gullikson, Yoshihisa Harada, and Hideki Kumata
pp. 1156-1158