Review of Scientific Instruments, 1999, V 70, N 4, April.


REVIEW ARTICLE

Instrumental aspects of x-ray microbeams in the range above 1 keV P. Dhez, P. Chevallier, T. B. Lucatorto, and C. Tarrio pp. 1907-1920
ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY
Single-movement fixed-exit channelcut x-ray monochromator based on profiled surfaces Sebastian Oestreich, Burkhard Kaulich, and Jean Susini pp. 1921-1925 Ortho/para hydrogen converter for rapid deposition matrix isolation spectroscopy Simon Tam and Mario E. Fajardo pp. 1926-1932 High-resolution CO-laser sideband spectrometer for molecular-beam optothermal spectroscopy in the 5-6.6 [ mu ]m wavelength region U. Merker, P. Engels, F. Madeja, M. Havenith, and W. Urban pp. 1933-1938 A novel spectrometer combining laser and electron excitation and deflection of atoms and molecules Andrew J. Murray and Peter Hammond pp. 1939-1950 Characterization of cooled large-area silicon avalanche photodiodes Jeffrey J. Fox, Nathan Woodard, and Gregory P. Lafyatis pp. 1951-1956
CHARGED PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION
Photodetachment photoelectron spectroscopy of multiply charged anions using electrospray ionization Lai-Sheng Wang, Chuan-Fan Ding, Xue-Bin Wang, and S. E. Barlow pp. 1957-1966 An enriched 40K source for fermionic atom studies B. DeMarco, H. Rohner, and D. S. Jin pp. 1967-1969 Two-dimensional toroidal electron analyzer for energy and angular dispersive measurements A. Danjo, Y. Kato, N. Kobayashi, J. Matsumoto, H. Shimizu, H. Tanuma, Z. Wang, W. Wu, K. Yamazaki, and M. Yoshino pp. 1970-1977 Angle-resolving electron-electron coincidence setup R. Wehlitz, L. S. Pibida, J. C. Levin, and I. A. Sellin pp. 1978-1982 Limits on laser wakefield accelerators B. Yedierler and S. Bilikmen pp. 1983-1985
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
Launched wave packets in an ion beam-plasma system S. G. Lee, D. A. Diebold, and N. Hershkowitz pp. 1986-1990 Beam optics of the SINGAP 1 MeV 100 mA D - direct current accelerator for thermonuclear fusion J. Bucalossi, C. Desgranges, M. Fumelli, P. Massmann, and A. Simonin pp. 1991-1993 Millimeter wave polarimeter for characterizing high-power plasma heating systems H. Ikezi, C. P. Moeller, J. L. Doane, M. DiMartino, J. Lohr, D. Ponce, and R. W. Callis pp. 1994-1998 Error analysis of Rijnhuizen tokamak project Thomson scattering data M. N. A. Beurskens, C. J. Barth, C. C. Chu, and N. J. Lopes Cardozo pp. 1999-2011 Obtaining absolute spatial flux measurements with a time-resolved pinhole camera K. L. Baker, J. L. Porter, L. E. Ruggles, D. L. Fehl, G. A. Chandler, M. Vargas, L. P. Mix, W. W. Simpson, Chris Deeney, R. E. Chrien, and G. C. Idzorek pp. 2012-2015 Materials selection for the in situ mirrors of laser diagnostics in fusion devices Vladimir S. Voitsenya, Vladimir G. Konovalov, Michael F. Becker, Osamu Motojima, Kazumichi Narihara, and Beatrix Schunke pp. 2016-2025
BASIC PHENOMENA
High magnetic field corrections to resistance thermometers at low temperatures B. Zhang, J. S. Brooks, J. A. A. J. Perenboom, S.-Y. Han, and J. S. Qualls pp. 2026-2030 Thermally actuated interferometric sensors based on the thermal expansion of transparent elastomeric media Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Scott T. Brittain, and George M. Whitesides pp. 2031-2037 Noise averaging and measurement resolution (or ``A little noise is a good thing'') James Potzick pp. 2038-2040
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
Laser scanning microscope for low temperature single molecule and microscale spectroscopy based on gradient index optics Martin Vácha, Hiroshi Yokoyama, Takashi Tokizaki, Makoto Furuki, and Toshiro Tani pp. 2041-2045 Novel thin membrane probe and a new twisting modulation force detection method of an atomic force microscope Katsushi Nakano and Yoshihiko Suzuki pp. 2046-2048 A circuit for measuring the gap voltage of a scanning tunneling microscope on a nanosecond time scale M. Ochmann, H.-J. Münzer, J. Boneberg, and P. Leiderer pp. 2049-2052 Tracking and stepping control of the tip position of a scanning tunneling microscope by referring to atomic points and arrays on a regular crystalline surface Masato Aketagawa, Koji Takada, Yoshihisa Minao, Yuki Oka, and Jong-Doo Lee pp. 2053-2059
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
Relationship between the internal friction values of the specimen and the vibration system Jiapeng Shui, Huiyuan Pei, and Yongsong Liu pp. 2060-2064 Phase comparison technique for measuring liquid-liquid phase equilibrium Z. Lu, J. L. Daridon, B. Lagourette, and S. Ye pp. 2065-2068 Measurements of thermal effusivity of liquids using a conventional photoacoustic cell J. A. Balderas-López, G. Gutiérrez-Juárez, M. R. Jaime-Fonseca, and Feliciano Sánchez-Sinencio pp. 2069-2071 Measurement of the permeability of thin films N. J. Ianno and T. J. Makovicka pp. 2072-2073 A simple strain cell for the measurement of the gauge factor of a thin film Manjunatha Pattabi and K. Mohan Rao pp. 2074-2075 An improved surface plasmon resonance imaging apparatus L. Andrew Lyon, William D. Holliway, and Michael J. Natan pp. 2076-2081 Electronic simulation of a multiterminal quantum Hall effect device A. Sosso and P. P. Capra pp. 2082-2086 An ultrahigh vacuum system for the fabrication and characterization of ultrathin metal-semiconductor films and sensors Howard S. Bergh, Brian Gergen, Hermann Nienhaus, Arun Majumdar, W. Henry Weinberg, and Eric W. McFarland pp. 2087-2094 A low cost modulation technique for magneto-optical measurements Giovanni Isella and Ezio Puppin pp. 2095-2096 Novel flow apparatus for investigating shear-enhanced crystallization and structure development in semicrystalline polymers Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Ravi K. Verma, and Julia A. Kornfield pp. 2097-2104 A new device for contactless studies of dielectrics H. Bacchetta, J.-P. Béghé, A. Berthault, P. Carles, and J.-C. Niepce pp. 2105-2112 Investigation of the radio frequency magnetic field inside a hollow cylinder used for nuclear magnetic resonance imaging Alexandre Labiche, Siew Kan, Anne Leroy-Willig, and Claire Wary pp. 2113-2115 Use of a random phase plate as a KrF laser beam homogenizer for thin film deposition applications C. L. S. Lewis, I. Weaver, L. A. Doyle, G. W. Martin, T. Morrow, D. A. Pepler, C. N. Danson, and I. N. Ross pp. 2116-2121 Pressure transducer mounts for internal blast measurements on thin metal walls George Yiannakopoulos and Peter Kiernan pp. 2122-2126
CHEMISTRY
A portable, pulsed-molecular-beam, Fourier-transform microwave spectrometer designed for chemical analysis R. D. Suenram, Jens Uwe Grabow, Andrei Zuban, and Igor Leonov pp. 2127-2135
GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICSELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
The theory of operation of transistorized Marx bank circuits Kanad Mallik pp. 2155-2160
GENERAL INSTRUMENTS
Dielectric-insensitive capacitive differential pressure gauge for use at low temperature Tokeem Talbot and J. G. Brisson pp. 2161-2165 Fiberoptic displacement sensor with a short hollow metal optical waveguide P. P. Branzalov, L. M. Ivanov, and L. I. Pavlov pp. 2166-2168
NOTES

Low-noise differentiator preamplifier for photogenerated signals Luigi Rovati and Franco Docchio pp. 2169-2170 A novel analog current-conveyor multiplier circuit Umesh Kumar pp. 2171-2172 Apparatus for direct addition of reagents into a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sample in the NMR probe Charles L. Perrin and Ignacio A. Rivero pp. 2173-2174 Contactless angle measurement Du[s]an Ponikvar pp. 2175-2176 Nonswitching van der Pauw technique using two different modulating frequencies G. T. Kim, J. G. Park, Y. W. Park, C. Müller-Schwanneke, M. Wagenhals, and S. Roth pp. 2177-2178
ERRATA
Erratum: ``The beam emission spectroscopy diagnostic on the DIII-D tokamak'' [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 70, 913 (1999)] G. McKee, R. Ashley, R. Durst, R. Fonck, M. Jakubowksi, K. Tritz, K. Burrell, C. Greenfield, and J. Robinson p. 2179