Review of Scientific Instruments, 2002, V 73, N 4, April.


ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY
Calibration of optical tweezers with differential interference contrast signals M. Capitanio, G. Romano, R. Ballerini, M. Giuntini, F. S. Pavone, D. Dunlap, and L. Finzi pp. 1687-1696 Absolute reflectance measurements by a modified cavity phase-shift method S. Mogg, N. Chitica, G. Plaine, and M. Hammar pp. 1697-1701 A high sensitivity refractometer based upon a long period grating Mach-Zehnder interferometer T. Allsop, R. Reeves, D. J. Webb, I. Bennion, and R. Neal pp. 1702-1705 Geometry-independent intensity correction factors for grazing-incidence diffraction Detlef-M. Smilgies pp. 1706-1710 New adjustment technique for time coincidence of femtosecond laser pulses using third harmonic generation in air and its application to holograph encoding system Ken-ichi Kawamura, Naoko Ito, Nobuhiko Sarukura, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono pp. 1711-1714 Design and performance of a THz emission and detection setup based on a semi- insulating GaAs emitter G. Zhao, R. N. Schouten, N. van der Valk, W. Th. Wenckebach, and P. C. M. Planken pp. 1715-1719 Time-resolved reflection surface x-ray diffraction Hawoong Hong, Z. Wu, T.-C. Chiang, P. Zschack, and Haydn Chen pp. 1720-1723
PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION, DETECTORS
Consideration on an undulator magnetic structure for polarization control T. Tanaka, K. Shirasawa, and H. Kitamura pp. 1724-1727 Characterization of a high-intensity bipolar-mode pulsed ion source for surface modification of materials X. P. Zhu, M. K. Lei, and T. C. Ma pp. 1728-1733 Improved ion detection efficiency of microchannel plate detectors B. Deconihout, F. Vurpillot, M. Bouet, and L. Renaud pp. 1734-1740 Development of new steady-state, low-energy, and high-flux ion beam test device Tomohisa Shimada, Yoshio Ueda, Akio Sagara, and Masahiro Nishikawa pp. 1741-1745 Negative ion production in multicusp sources Yu. I. Belchenko, Y. Oka, O. Kaneko, Y. Takeiri, and K. Tsumori pp. 1746-1751 Spatial and temporal diagnostics of a high-brightness electron beam by technique of laser Thomson scattering Jinfeng Yang, Tatsuya Yanagida, Masafumi Yorozu, Fumio Sakai, Yasushiro Okada, and Akira Endo pp. 1752-1755 Magnetic core characteristics for high rep-rate induction modulator M. Watanabe, M. Nakajima, M. Shiho, K. Horioka, K. Takayama, and J. Kishiro pp. 1756-1760
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
Magnetohydrodynamic mode identification from magnetic probe signals via a matched filter method Dana H. Edgell, Jin-Soo Kim, Ioan N. Bogatu, David A. Humphreys, and Alan D. Turnbull pp. 1761-1765 Four-beam correlation method for local fluctuation measurements in plasmas A. Ejiri pp. 1766-1774 Impurity density profile measurements with a fast filter spectrometer and a modulated diagnostic beam on Tore Supra by charge exchange recombination spectroscopy W. R. Hess, J. L. Farjon, R. Guirlet, and M. Druetta pp. 1775-1778 Data acquisition and control system for large volume plasma device G. B. Patel, P. K. Srivastava, L. M. Awasthi, V. P. Anitha, G. Ravi, P. J. Patel, U. K. Baruah, and S. K. Mattoo pp. 1779-1785
BASIC PHENOMENA
Detection of systematic errors in a measurement process using fuzzy set theory Y. Gao, X. Xia, Z. Wang, and Z. Tao pp. 1786-1794
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
Tuning-fork-based fast highly sensitive surface-contact sensor for atomic force microscopy/near-field scanning optical microscopy D. V. Serebryakov, A. P. Cherkun, B. A. Loginov, and V. S. Letokhov pp. 1795-1802
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
An experimental setup for nondestructive deposition of size-selected clusters R. Klingeler, P. S. Bechthold, M. Neeb, and W. Eberhardt pp. 1803-1808 X-ray diffraction of polymer under load at cryogenic temperature Takashi Nishino, Hideyuki Miyazaki, and Katsuhiko Nakamae pp. 1809-1812 A novel technique to measure the Poisson's ratio and submicron lateral dimensional changes of ultrathin polymeric films Tiejun Ma, Bharat Bhushan, Hirofumi Murooka, Ieyasu Kobayashi, and Toshifumi Osawa pp. 1813-1820 Apparatus to measure wafer curvature for multilayer systems in a vacuum furnace A. B. Mann, J. Tapson, D. van Heerden, A. C. Lewis, D. Josell, and T. P. Weihs pp. 1821-1827 A newly developed high-pressure cell by using modified Bridgman anvils for precise measurements in magnetic fields at low temperatures T. Nakanishi, N. Takeshita, and N. Mo^ri pp. 1828-1831 Excitation of thermographic phosphors using a blue light emitting diode: Spectral characteristics and instrumentation applications S. W. Allison, M. R. Cates, and G. T. Gillies pp. 1832-1834 Absorption edge determination of thick GaAs wafers using surface photovoltage spectroscopy T. K. Sharma, S. Porwal, R. Kumar, and Shailendra Kumar pp. 1835-1840 Thin film microcalorimeter for heat capacity measurements in high magnetic fields B. L. Zink, B. Revaz, R. Sappey, and F. Hellman pp. 1841-1844 Air-gap capacitance cell for the investigation of porous or solvent containing dielectric films Reinhard Schwo"diauer and Siegfried Bauer pp. 1845-1852 Using masks to obtain uniform ion etch rates S. Gnanarajan pp. 1853-1855
CHEMISTRY
Three-dimensional imaging technique for direct observation of the complete velocity distribution of state-selected photodissociation products A. I. Chichinin, T. Einfeld, C. Maul, and K.-H. Gericke pp. 1856-1865 Ion-electron velocity vector correlations in dissociative photoionization of simple molecules using electrostatic lenses M. Lebech, J. C. Houver, and D. Dowek pp. 1866-1874 A laser-based instrument for the study of ultrafast chemical dynamics by soft x- ray-probe photoelectron spectroscopy Lora Nugent-Glandorf, Michael Scheer, David A. Samuels, Veronica Bierbaum, and Stephen R. Leone pp. 1875-1886
BIOLOGY and MEDICINE
A high-density multichannel surface electromyography system for the characterization of single motor units J. H. Blok, J. P. van Dijk, G. Drost, M. J. Zwarts, and D. F. Stegeman pp. 1887-1897 A wide-field time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging microscope with optical sectioning S. E. D. Webb, Y. Gu, S. Le've^que-Fort, J. Siegel, M. J. Cole, K. Dowling, R. Jones, P. M. W. French, M. A. A. Neil, R. Ju [[ess with caron]] kaitis, L. O. D. Sucharov, T. Wilson, and M. J. Lever pp. 1898-1907
GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS
A photometric imaging solar telescope, tunable in the extreme ultraviolet, utilizing multilayer x-ray optics L. Golub, E. Deluca, P. Hamilton, G. Nystrom, D. L. Windt, W. K. H. Schmidt, and A. Dannenberg pp. 1908-1913
ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
Three-phase, voltage controlled sinusoidal oscillator J. Bayard pp. 1914-1917 Ultralow frequency perfect saw-tooth generator J. Bayard pp. 1918-1920 A comparison between potentiostatic circuits with grounded work or auxiliary electrode L. Busoni, M. Carla`, and L. Lanzi pp. 1921-1923
GENERAL INSTRUMENTS
Stepped piston modification in the piston manometer of mixed operational principle (simple-piston and re-entrant cylinder system) Micha [[barred lower-case ell]] K. Urba [[n-acute]] ski and Roland Wi [[s-acute]] niewski pp. 1924-1929 Quantitative analysis method for the vapor phase concentration J. U. Kim, H. Suk, and G. H. Kim pp. 1930-1933 A heterodyne refractometer for air index of refraction and air density measurements H. Fang, A. Picard, and P. Juncar pp. 1934-1938 Two-dimensional potential distribution measurement of surface discharge with subnanosecond resolution Akiko Kumada, Toshio Sugihara, Masakuni Chiba, and Kunihiko Hidaka pp. 1939-1944 High speed x-ray radiography diagnostic of current interruption in circuit breakers A. M. Zolfaghari, E. Kellogg, S. Wendt, and J. Gray pp. 1945-1948 One-stage identification algorithm and two-step compensation method of Hammerstein model with application to wrist force sensor Ke-Jun Xu and Lin Jia pp. 1949-1955
NOTES

Nanofabrication with holographic optical tweezers Pamela Korda, Gabriel C. Spalding, Eric R. Dufresne, and David G. Grier pp. 1956-1957 A portable stray-immune capacitance meter San Xu Yang and Wu Qiang Yang pp. 1958-1961 Extremely wide speed range measurement system Milan Prokin pp. 1962-1964 An improved light-emitting element driver Tai-Shan Liao pp. 1965-1966 Shock loadings on thin film manganin gauges packaged by vapor-deposited alumina X. S. Du, B. C. Yang, and H. R. Zhou pp. 1967-1969 High vacuum feedthrough for angular, linear, and rotary motion E. E. Scime, J. L. Kline, D. Mathess, and C. Weber II pp. 1970-1971