Review of Scientific Instruments, 2001, V 72, N 4, April.


REVIEW ARTICLE

Application of acoustic resonators in photoacoustic trace gas analysis and metrology András Miklós, Peter Hess, and Zoltán Bozóki pp. 1937-1955
ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY
Portable, tunable, high-luminosity spherical crystal spectrometer with an x-ray charge coupled device, for high-resolution x-ray spectromicroscopy of clusters heated by femtosecond laser pulses F. Blasco, C. Stenz, F. Salin, A. Ya. Faenov, A. I. Magunov, T. A. Pikuz, and I. Yu. Skobelev pp. 1956-1962 Multimass ion imaging detection: Application to photodissociation Shang-Ting Tsai, Chih-Kai Lin, Yuan T. Lee, and Chi-Kung Ni pp. 1963-1969 Enhanced Raman sensitivity using an ctively stabilized external resonator David J. Taylor, Manfred Glugla, and Ralf-Dieter Penzhorn pp. 1970-1976 Tunable pulsed vacuum ultraviolet light source for surface science and materials spectroscopy based on high harmonic generation D. Riedel, J. L. Hernandez-Pozos, R. E. Palmer, S. Baggott, K. W. Kolasinski, and J. S. Foord pp. 1977-1983 Elimination of amplitude-phase crosstalk in frequency domain near-infrared spectroscopy S. P. Morgan and K. Y. Yong pp. 1984-1987 The spectral linewidth of tunable semiconductor InAsSb/InAsSbP lasers emitting at 3.2-3.6 µm (2800-3100 cm-1) A. N. Imenkov, N. M. Kolchanova, Yu. P. Yakovlev, P. Kubát, and S.Civis pp. 1988-1992 A comparison of glass fluorescers used to measure a pulsed ultraviolet image at F/2 A. V. Deniz and J. A. Stamper pp. 1993-1998 Quantitative measurement system of molecular orientation by coaxial optical Kerr effect spectroscopy Keiji Sakai, Yasuhiro Ikeda, and Kenshiro Takagi pp. 1999-2002
PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION
Application and methodological improvements to the floating-wire technique to characterize the magnetic properties of a spectrometer dipole H. J. Stein, G. Krol, S. Barsov, and V. Koptev pp. 2003-2010 Triple drift ion beam bunching systems for enhanced bunching efficiency P. R. Sarma, V. S. Pandit, and R. K. Bhandari pp. 2011-2014
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
Liquid impedance matching system for ion cyclotron heating K. Saito, Y. Torii, R. Kumazawa, T. Mutoh, T. Seki, F. Shimpo, G. Nomura, M. Yokota, T. Watari, G. Cattanei, and Yangping Zhao pp. 2015-2022 Charge-coupled device systems for recording two-dimensional multi-mega-ampere z-pinch data B. H. Failor, P. L. Coleman, J. S. Levine, Y. Song, H. Sze, P. D. LePell, C. A. Coverdale, C. Deeney, L. Pressley, and R. Schneider pp. 2023-2031 Time-resolved measurement on ablative acceleration of foil plates driven by pulsed laser beam Hongliang He, T. Kobayashi, and T. Sekine pp. 2032-2035 On the theory of an Omegatron with asymmetric three-dimensional electric fields: Ion trajectories and resonance peak shapes P. V. Amerl, H. R. Krouse, and H. Fichtner pp. 2036-2042 Unique broad-spectrum neutron sensing instrument J. A. Weaver, M. J. Joyce, A. J. Peyton, J. Roskell, and M. J.Armishaw pp. 2043-2047 Absolute calibration of laser-induced fluorescence experiments by optical depth correction St. Franke, A. Dinklage, and C. Wilke pp. 2048-2051 Contamination-free sounding rocket Langmuir probe W. E. Amatucci, P. W. Schuck, D. N. Walker, P. M. Kintner, S. Powell, B. Holback, and D. Leonhardt pp. 2052-2057
BASIC PHENOMENA
A double coil apparatus for Barkhausen noise measurements E. Puppin, M. Zani, D. Vallaro, and A. Venturi pp. 2058-2061
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
A high-throughput x-ray microtomography system at the Advanced Photon Source Yuxin Wang, Francesco De Carlo, Derrick C. Mancini, Ian McNulty, Brian Tieman, John Bresnahan, Ian Foster, Joseph Insley, Peter Lane, Gregor von Laszewski, Carl Kesselman, Mei-Hui Su, and Marcus Thiebaux pp. 2062-2068 Adaptation to low temperatures of a differential interference contrast microscope with subnanometer sensitivity X. Müller, T. Kinoshita, and J. Dupont-Roc pp. 2069-2072 Near-field scanning microwave probe based on a dielectric resonator M. Abu-Teir, M. Golosovsky, D. Davidov, A. Frenkel, and H. Goldberger pp. 2073-2079 Detailed description of a compact cryogenic magnetic resonance force microscope Doran D. Smith, John A. Marohn, and Lee E. Harrell pp. 2080-2089 A scanning superconducting quantum interference device microscope with high spatial resolution for room temperature samples Friederike Gruhl, Michael Mück, Marc von Kreutzbruck, and Jörg Dechert pp. 2090-2096 Superconducting niobium tip for scanning tunneling microscope light emission spectroscopy Y. Uehara, T. Fujita, M. Iwami, and S. Ushioda pp. 2097-2099 Scanning noninvasive voltage probe operating at 4.2 K A. T. Sellwood, C. G. Smith, E. H. Linfield, M. Y. Simmons, and D. A.Ritchie pp. 2100-2105 Permanent magnet objective lenses for multicolumn electron-beam systems A. Khursheed, Z. Yan, and N. Karuppiah pp. 2106-2109
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
Nonmetallic gaskets for ultrahigh pressure diamond-cell experiments Daniel Solli and Raymond Jeanloz pp. 2110-2113 Tailoring sphere density for high pressure physical property measurements on liquids R. A. Secco, R. F. Tucker, S. P. Balog, and M. D. Rutter pp. 2114-2116 X-ray absorption spectroscopy and imaging of heterogeneous hydrothermal mixtures using a diamond microreactor cell John L. Fulton, John G. Darab, and Markus M. Hoffmann pp. 2117-2122 New water shock sensor Y. Mori, K. Shimada, M. Nakahara, and K. Nagayama pp. 2123-2127 An apparatus for the measurement of internal stress and thermal expansion coefficient of metal oxide films Cheng-Chung Lee, Chuen-Lin Tien, Wean-Shyang Sheu, and Cheng-Chung Jaing pp. 2128-2133 Acoustic resonance in tetramethoxysilane matrices: A new tool to characterize the gel formation B. Senouci, S. Serfaty, P. Griesmar, and M. Gindre pp. 2134-2138 Data reduction in 3[omega] method for thin-film thermal conductivity determination T. Borca-Tasciuc, A. R. Kumar, and G. Chen pp. 2139-2147 Automated resonant mechanical analyzer E. Bonetti, E. G. Campari, L. Pasquini, and L. Savini pp. 2148-2152
CHEMISTRY
Near-infrared acousto-optic tunable filter based instrumentation for the measurement of dynamic spectra of polymers Joseph A. Sweat and David L. Wetzel pp. 2153-2158
BIOLOGY and MEDICINE
A design of mammography units using a quasimonochromatic x-ray source M. A. Piestrup, Xizeng Wu, V. V. Kaplan, S. R. Uglov, J. T. Cremer, D. W. Rule, and R. B. Fiorito pp. 2159-2170 Design and testing of high sensitivity microreceiver coil apparatus for nuclear magnetic resonance and imaging D. A. Seeber, R. L. Cooper, L. Ciobanu, and C. H. Pennington pp. 2171-2179
ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
Thermal deformation measurement of electronic packages using the atomic force microscope scanning moiré technique Y. G. Lu, Z. W. Zhong, J. Yu, H. M. Xie, B. K. A. Ngoi, G. B. Chai, and A. Asundi pp. 2180-2185 A miniature capacitive probe array for transient high voltage capillary discharges M. Favre, H. Chuaqui, A. M. Leńero, E. Wyndham, and P. Choi pp. 2186-2190
GENERAL INSTRUMENTS
Frequency-domain fluorescence based fiber optic fire alarm system T. Sun, Z. Y. Zhang, and K. T. V. Grattan pp. 2191-2196 Precise pulsed time-of-flight laser range finder for industrial distance measurements Ari Kilpelä, Riku Pennala, and Juha Kostamovaara pp. 2197-2202 Digital signal processor-based dc superconducting quantum interference device controller Inseob Hahn and Mark Weilert pp. 2203-2206 Novel optical sensor for the measurement of surface texture Paolo Tomassini, Luigi Rovati, Giovanna Sansoni, and Franco Docchio pp. 2207-2213 A gas gun for plane and shear loading of inert and explosive targets N. K. Bourne and G. S. Stevens pp. 2214-2218
NOTES

Adaptive notch filter-based signal processing method and system for vortex flowmeters Ke-Jun Xu, An-Min Wang, and Xun-Hong Lv pp. 2219-2220 Ultracompact autocorrelator for emtosecond laser pulses Piotr Wasylczyk pp. 2221-2223 Telecentric viewing system for light ollection from a z-pinch plasma D. J. Den Hartog and R. P. Golingo pp. 2224-2225