Review of Scientific Instruments, 2001, V 72, N 5, May.


ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY
Evaluation of an attenuation system for an infrared free-electron laser Kunio Awazu and Yuko Fukami pp. 2239-2241 The new ultraviolet spectral responsivity scale based on cryogenic radiometry at Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility III Ping-Shine Shaw, Thomas C. Larason, Rajeev Gupta, Steven W. Brown, Robert E. Vest, and Keith R. Lykke pp. 2242-2247 Lithium ion attachment mass spectrometry: Instrumentation and features P. Christopher Selvin and Toshihiro Fujii pp. 2248-2252 Laser pumped 4He magnetometer H. Gilles, J. Hamel, and B. Chéron pp. 2253-2260
PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION
Production and characterization of highly intense and collimated cluster beams by inertial focusing in supersonic expansions P. Piseri, A. Podestà, E. Barborini, and P. Milani pp. 2261-2267 Simultaneous axial and rotational electron beam velocity measurement using a phosphor scintillator W. He, S. J. Cooke, A. W. Cross, and A. D. R. Phelps pp. 2268-2270 Plasma diagnostics at electron cyclotron resonance ion sources by injection of laser ablated fluxes of metal atoms V. Mironov, S. Runkel, K. E. Stiebing, O. Hohn, G. Shirkov, H. Schmidt-Böcking, and A. Schempp pp. 2271-2278
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
Ion acoustic wave velocity measurement of the concentration of two ion species in a multi-dipole plasma A. M. Hala and N. Hershkowitz pp. 2279-2281 Influence of magnetic field on plasma sheath and electron temperature Bornali Singha, A. Sarma, and Joyanti Chutia pp. 2282-2287 Measurements of the negative ion density in SF6/Ar plasma using a plane electrostatic probe Masako Shindo, Satoshi Uchino, Ryuta Ichiki, Shinji Yoshimura, and Yoshinobu Kawai pp. 2288-2293 Dynamic plasma pressure measurements M. Kulish, A. Fertman, A. Golubev, A. Tauschwitz, and V. Turtikov pp. 2294-2297 A measurement method of absolute hydrogen atom density in plasmas by (2 + 1)-photon laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy K. Sasaki, M. Nakamoto, and K. Kadota pp. 2298-2304 A three-dimensional Gaussian-beam ray-tracing program for designing interferometer/polarimeter plasma diagnostics George B. Warr and John Howard pp. 2305-2309 Telescopic refractive index gradient diagnostic of an ion diode anode plasma B. A. Knyazev, J. B. Greenly, D. A. Hammer, E. G. Krastelev, and M. E. Cuneo pp. 2310-2321
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
Element-specific imaging of magnetic domains at 25 nm spatial resolution using soft x-ray microscopy P. Fischer, T. Eimüller, G. Schütz, G. Denbeaux, A. Pearson, L. Johnson, D. Attwood, S. Tsunashima, M. Kumazawa, N. Takagi, M. Köhler, and G. Bayreuther pp. 2322-2324 A picosecond time-resolved photoluminescence microscope with detection at wavelengths greater than 1500 nm J. M. Smith, P. A. Hiskett, I. Gontijo, L. Purves, and G. S. Buller pp. 2325-2329 Dynamic effects on force measurements. I. Viscous drag on the atomic force microscope cantilever Olga I. Vinogradova, Hans-Jürgen Butt, Gleb E. Yakubov, and François Feuillebois pp. 2330-2339 A nondestructive technique for determining the spring constant of atomic force microscope cantilevers Christopher T. Gibson, Brandon L. Weeks, Jonathan R. I. Lee, Chris Abell, and Trevor Rayment pp. 2340-2343 Shear force scanning near-field optical microscope based on a piezoelectric bimorph cantilever G. Y. Shang, C. Wang, J. Wu, C. L. Bai, and F. H. Lei pp. 2344-2349
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
Influence of space charge on the performance of the Kelvin probe G.-N. Luo, K. Yamaguchi, T. Terai, and M. Yamawaki pp. 2350-2357 Electrical resistivity measurements on fragile organic single crystals in the diamond anvil cell T. Adachi, H. Tanaka, H. Kobayashi, and T. Miyazaki pp. 2358-2360 Scanning superconducting quantum interference device susceptometry Brian W. Gardner, Janice C. Wynn, Per G. Björnsson, Eric W. J. Straver, Kathryn A. Moler, John R. Kirtley, and Mark B. Ketchen pp. 2361-2364 Advanced ac loss measurement methods for high-temperature superconducting tapes J. J. Rabbers, B. ten Haken, and H. H. J. ten Kate pp. 2365-2373 Magnetic dome configuration for magnetron sputtering Seiki Ejima and Yoshiaki Shimizu pp. 2374-2379 Novel technique for low-jitter dual-laser synchronization in a thin film deposition system Pritish Mukherjee, John B. Cuff, and Sarath Witanachchi pp. 2380-2386 Development of a two-dimensional birefringence distribution measurement system in laser-diode pumped solid-state laser material Yoshio Nishida and Masanobu Yamanaka pp. 2387-2391 Low-frequency method for magnetothermopower and Nernst effect measurements on single crystal samples at low temperatures and high magnetic fields E. S. Choi, J. S. Brooks, J. S. Qualls, and Y. S. Song pp. 2392-2397 Simple microcalorimeter for measuring microgram samples at low temperatures S. G. Doettinger-Zech, M. Uhl, D. L. Sisson, and A. Kapitulnik pp. 2398-2406 High precision scanning angle ellipsometry R. C. van Duijvenbode, E. A. van der Zeeuw, and G. J. M. Koper pp. 2407-2414
BIOLOGY and MEDICINE
Uniaxial strain system to investigate strain rate regulation in vitro Craig B. Clark, Thomas J. Burkholder, and John A. Frangos pp. 2415-2422
GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS
Mechanism controller system for the optical spectroscopic and infrared remote imaging system instrument on board the Rosetta space mission J. M. Castro Marín, V. J. G. Brown, A. C. López Jiménez, J. Rodríguez Gómez, and R. Rodrigo pp. 2423-2427 A detector of small harmonic displacements based on two coupled microwave cavities Ph. Bernard, G. Gemme, R. Parodi, and E. Picasso pp. 2428-2437
ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
A novel primary inductor for a dual tuned resonant transformer D. W. Scholfield, J. L. Borovina, and R. P. Copeland pp. 2438-2442 A 10 kW high-voltage pulse generator for corona plasma generation K. Yan, E. J. M. van Heesch, A. J. M. Pemen, P. A. H. J. Huijbrechts, and Piet C. T. van der Laan pp. 2443-2447 Compact generator based on a single-gap polymer-foil switch for 1 ns risetime 10 kV rectangular pulse Zhengzhong Zeng and Lianying Ma pp. 2448-2449
GENERAL INSTRUMENTS
Measuring the camber deformation of a dragonfly wing using projected comb fringe Deqiang Song, Hao Wang, Lijiang Zeng, and Chunyong Yin pp. 2450-2454 A common-path heterodyne interferometer for surface profiling in microelectronic fabrication Eric J. Klein, W. Fred Ramirez, and John L. Hall pp. 2455-2466 Infrared technique for measuring thickness of a flowing soap film X. L. Wu, R. Levine, M. Rutgers, H. Kellay, and W. I. Goldburg pp. 2467-2471 A simple optical patternator for evaluating spray symmetry M. J. Ullom and P. E. Sojka pp. 2472-2477 Compact and fast response ultrasonic detection device based on two-wave mixing in a gallium arsenide photorefractive crystal Benjamin Campagne, Alain Blouin, Lionel Pujol, and Jean-Pierre Monchalin pp. 2478-2482 Infrared radiometry-based background-compensated thermometric instrument for noncontact temperature and friction measurements L. Li, A. Mandelis, J. Garcia, and C. Eccles pp. 2483-2489 New sample levitation initiation and imaging techniques for the processing of refractory metals with an electrostatic levitator furnace Takehiko Ishikawa, Paul-François Paradis, and Shinichi Yoda pp. 2490-2495
NOTES

Sensitive measurement of magnetostriction effects in thin films by means of a two-beam free-sample deflection method W. Brückner, C. Lang, and C. M. Schneider pp. 2496-2497 Large dynamic range technique for magnetoacoustic measurements J. D. Gavenda and Michael D. Foegelle pp. 2498-2499 Measurements of ferromagnetic transition under pressure by a commercial Hall device V. Markovich, G. Gorodetsky, and S. Shtrikman pp. 2500-2501 Electrode and interfacial polarization in broadband dielectric spectroscopy measurements Francesco Pizzitutti and Fabio Bruni pp. 2502-2504 Diode-less operation of a resonantly charged repetitive high voltage pulser circuit Dhruba J. Biswas and J. Padma Nilaya pp. 2505-2507 Double tuned 23Na 1H nuclear magnetic resonance birdcage for application on mice in vivo Titus Lanz, Jan Ruff, Alexander Weisser, and Axel Haase pp. 2508-2510
ERRATA

Erratum: "An image plate chamber for x-ray diffraction experiments in Debye-Scherrer geometry" [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71, 4007 (2000)] Oliver Stachs, Thomas Gerber, and Valeri Petkov p. 2511