Review of Scientific Instruments, 2000, V 71, N 6.


ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY
Investigation of integrated diffractive/refractive microlens microfabricated by focused ion beam Yongqi Fu and Ngoi Kok Ann Bryan pp. 2263-2266 Simultaneous strain-temperature measurement using fluorescence from Yb-doped silica fiber S. A. Wade, G. W. Baxter, S. F. Collins, K. T. V. Grattan, and T. Sun pp. 2267-2269 Reflectance and transmittance measurements of anisotropically scattering samples in focusing Coblentz spheres T. Lindström and A. Roos pp. 2270-2278 Novel method to measure bulk absorption in optically transparent materials M. Guntau and W. Triebel pp. 2279-2282 A simple instrument for ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrophotometry in high temperature molten salt media Jianzhong Li and Purnendu K. Dasgupta pp. 2283-2287 Efficient discharge pumping of a copper vapor laser using a cylindrical grid electrode Akira Ohzu, Masaaki Kato, and Yoichiro Maruyama pp. 2288-2291 Alignment system for crossed parabolic x-ray mirrors R. J. Matyi, P. D. Moran, W. W. D. Hagquist, and H. M. Volz pp. 2292-2295 Reducing tilt errors in moiré linear encoders using phase-modulated grating Ju-Ho Song, Kyung-Chan Kim, and Soo Hyun Kim pp. 2296-2300
PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION
Construction and testing of an 11.4 GHz dielectric structure based traveling wave accelerator P. Zou, W. Gai, R. Konecny, X. Sun, T. Wong, and A. Kanareykin pp. 2301-2304 Pulse radiolysis of liquid water using picosecond electron pulses produced by a table-top terawatt laser system Ned Saleh, Kirk Flippo, Koshichi Nemoto, Donald Umstadter, Robert A. Crowell, Charles D. Jonah, and Alexander D. Trifunac pp. 2305-2308 Fast impedance spectroscopy: General aspects and performance study for single ion channel measurements Gerald Wiegand, Klaus R. Neumaier, and Erich Sackmann pp. 2309-2320 Design and optimization of a corona discharge ionization source for ion mobility spectrometry M. Tabrizchi, T. Khayamian, and N. Taj pp. 2321-2328 Characterization of neutral density profile in a wide range of pressure of cylindrical pulsed gas jets V. Malka, C. Coulaud, J. P. Geindre, V. Lopez, Z. Najmudin, D. Neely, and F. Amiranoff pp. 2329-2333
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
Doppler-free two-photon excitation of Lyman-[alpha] fluorescence for the diagnostics of magnetically confined fusion plasmas D. Voslamber pp. 2334-2352 Development of a novel fast frequency modulation scheme for the Joint European Torus multichannel reflectometer N. Deliyanakis pp. 2353-2359 Measurements of poloidal rotation velocity using charge exchange spectroscopy in a large helical device K. Ida, S. Kado, and Y. Liang pp. 2360-2366 Calibration of a multiple microchannel plate detectors system by [alpha]-induced secondary electrons J. Villette, M. Barat, and P. Roncin pp. 2367-2370 A proposed new microstructure for gas radiation detectors: The microhole and strip plate J. F. C. A. Veloso, J. M. F. dos Santos, and C. A. N. Conde pp. 2371-2376 Nitrogen-filled tube as a sensor of ionizing radiation Mom [c-hacek] ilo M. Pejovi [c-acute] and Goran S. Risti [c-acute] pp. 2377-2379 Miniature photoconducting capacitor array as a source for tunable THz radiation D. Hashimshony, A. Zigler, and K. Papadopoulos pp. 2380-2385
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
Characterization of a microfocused circularly polarized x-ray probe J. Pollmann, G. Srajer, J. Maser, J. C. Lang, C. S. Nelson, C. T. Venkataraman, and E. D. Isaacs pp. 2386-2390 Quantitative measurement of sliding friction dynamics at mesoscopic scales: The lateral force apparatus C. P. Hendriks and W. P. Vellinga pp. 2391-2402 Nanoscale elasticity measurement with in situ tip shape estimation in atomic force microscopy Kazushi Yamanaka, Toshihiro Tsuji, Atsushi Noguchi, Takayuki Koike, and Tsuyoshi Mihara pp. 2403-2408 Controlled-atmosphere chamber for atomic force microscopy investigations Marco Sartore, Raffaele Pace, Paolo Faraci, Daniele Nardelli, Manuela Adami, Manoj K. Ram, and Claudio Nicolini pp. 2409-2413 Tip-sample distance feedback control in a scanning evanescent microwave probe for nonlinear dielectric imaging Fred Duewer, C. Gao, and X.-D. Xiang pp. 2414-2417 Infrared imaging of defects heated by a sonic pulse L. D. Favro, Xiaoyan Han, Zhong Ouyang, Gang Sun, Hua Sui, and R. L. Thomas pp. 2418-2421
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
An experimental station for advanced research on condensed matter under extreme conditions at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - BM29 beamline Adriano Filipponi, Michael Borowski, Daniel T. Bowron, Stuart Ansell, Andrea Di Cicco, Simone De Panfilis, and Jean-Paul Itiè pp. 2422-2432 Precise and direct determination of the elastic constants of a cylinder with a length equal to its diameter F. J. Nieves, F. Gascón, and A. Bayón pp. 2433-2439 Lock-in common-mode rejection demodulation: Measurement technique and applications to thermal-wave detection: Theoretical Andreas Mandelis, Stefano Paoloni, and Lena Nicolaides pp. 2440-2444 Lock-in common-mode rejection demodulation: Measurement technique and applications to thermal-wave detection. Experimental Stefano Paoloni, Lena Nicolaides, and Andreas Mandelis pp. 2445-2451 Parameter estimations for measurements of thermal transport properties with the hot disk thermal constants analyzer Vlastimil Bohac, Mattias K. Gustavsson, Ludovit Kubicar, and Silas E.Gustafsson pp. 2452-2455 Extended frequency range dielectric measurements of thin films Frederick I. Mopsik pp. 2456-2460 Versatile device for low temperature in situ generation of forces up to 25 kN: Application to hydrostatic pressure experiments B. Salce, J. Thomasson, A. Demuer, J. J. Blanchard, J. M. Martinod, L. Devoille, and A. Guillaume pp. 2461-2466 Optical flow-through high pressure cell for light scattering investigations Thorleif Berger and Werner Steffen pp. 2467-2470 High pressure reaction cell and transfer mechanism for ultrahigh vacuum spectroscopic chambers A. E. Nelson and K. H. Schulz pp. 2471-2475 A method and device for measurement of a sedimentation constant of magnetorheological fluids S. R. Gorodkin, W. I. Kordonski, E. V. Medvedeva, Z. A. Novikova, A. B. Shorey, and S. D. Jacobs pp. 2476-2480 Measuring the surface tension of a liquid-gas interface by automatic stalagmometer C. Molina, L. Victoria, and A. Arenas pp. 2481-2486 Viscosity measurements based on experimental investigations of composite cantilever beam eigenfrequencies in viscous media Christian Bergaud and Liviu Nicu pp. 2487-2491
CHEMISTRY
Simultaneous measurement method of both shock state and stress profile in polymers in 1 GPa stress Yasuhito Mori, Kota Hidaka, and Kunihito Nagayama pp. 2492-2496 Polymer microparticle arrays from electrodynamically focused microdroplet streams K. C. Ng, J. V. Ford, S. C. Jacobson, J. M. Ramsey, and M. D. Barnes pp. 2497-2499
BIOLOGY and MEDICINE
Broad bandwidth frequency domain instrument for quantitative tissue optical spectroscopy Tuan H. Pham, Olivier Coquoz, Joshua B. Fishkin, Eric Anderson, and Bruce J. Tromberg pp. 2500-2513 Design and characterization of a research electrohydraulic lithotripter patterned after the Dornier HM3 Robin O. Cleveland, Michael R. Bailey, Naomi Fineberg, Bruce Hartenbaum, Murtuza Lokhandwalla, James A. McAteer, and Bradford Sturtevant pp. 2514-2525 Microtensile device for stress: Elongation tests on nonstandard specimens F. P. Branca and F. Marinozzi pp. 2526-2531 Imaging ferromagnetic tracers with an ac biosusceptometer M. Moreira, L. O. Murta, Jr., and O. Baffa pp. 2532-2538
GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS
GEO 600 triple pendulum suspension system: Seismic isolation and control M. V. Plissi, C. I. Torrie, M. E. Husman, N. A. Robertson, K. A. Strain, H. Ward, H. Lück, and J. Hough pp. 2539-2545 Modeling of multistage pendulums: Triple pendulum suspension for GEO 600 M. E. Husman, C. I. Torrie, M. V. Plissi, N. A. Robertson, K. A. Strain, and J. Hough pp. 2546-2551 Vibration isolation support system for a truncated icosahedral gravitational wave antenna W. F. Velloso, Jr., J. L. Melo, and O. D. Aguiar pp. 2552-2559
ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
A pulser for medium-frequency modulated direct-current reactive sputter deposition of insulators G. T. Kiehne, M. Z. Lin, G. Wang, W. H. Xiang, H. Cao, and J. B. Ketterson pp. 2560-2562 A continuous motional series resonant frequency monitoring circuit and a new method of determining Butterworth-Van Dyke parameters of a quartz crystal microbalance in fluid media A. Arnau, T. Sogorb, and Y. Jiménez pp. 2563-2571 An innovative linear response time-to-digital converter with a branched propagation delay chain Chih-Yao Chang, Wan-Li Sun, Nai-Chueh Wang, and Chung-Yee Leung pp. 2572-2576 Real-time multichannel scaler measurement of oscillator instabilities Marek Zieli [n-acute] ski, Roman S. Dygda [barred lower-case ell] a, Krzysztof Karasek, and Anna Zawadzka pp. 2577-2581 A selection method to improve temperature compensation of current regulator Yan-Fang Lin pp. 2582-2584 A wide range linear electrometer Y. B. Acharya pp. 2585-2588 Arbitrary wave-form-pulsed power source for flash-lamp-pumped solid-state lasers R. Arya, Joy Thomas M., A. G. Bhujle, and D. D. Bhawalkar pp. 2589-2597
GENERAL INSTRUMENTS
Automatization of a multipurpose astronomical spectrograph J. Sanchez del Rio, A. Ruiz-Falco Rojas, and G. Herpe pp. 2598-2602 Capacitive position sensor with simultaneous, linear X-Y readout Stuart B. Field and John Barentine pp. 2603-2607
NOTES

Microsphere plate detectors used with a compact Mott polarimeter for time-of-flight studies G. Snell, J. Viefhaus, F. B. Dunning, and N. Berrah pp. 2608-2609 PC control and data processing in relation with a standalone laser beam analyzer T. Visan and D. G. Sporea pp. 2610-2611