Review of Scientific Instruments, 1998, V 69, N 7, July.

 Spectral brightness and other improvements
 to the tunable ArF excimer laser
 R. Jeffrey Balla, R. C. Hart
 pp. 2591-2594

 Digital signal processing technique for
 white light based sensing systems
 P. A. S. Jorge, L. A. Ferreira, J. L. Santos
 pp. 2595-2602

 Reference reconvolution analysis by phase
 plane method
 Eugene G. Novikov
 pp. 2603-2610

 On the gain media uniformity in controlled
 expansion cooled high gain recombination x-ray lasers
 Ruxin Li, Zhengquan Zhang, Pinzhong Fan, Lingqing Zhang, Zhizhan Xu
 pp. 2611-2617

 An in situ x-ray absorption spectroscopic
 cell for high temperature gas-flow measurements
 George Meitzner, Simon R. Bare, Deborah Parker, Hyung Woo, 
 Daniel A. Fischer
 pp. 2618-2621

 Electron paramagnetic resonance detection
 by time-locked subsampling
 James S. Hyde, Hassane S. Mchaourab, Theodore G. Camenisch, Joseph J.
 Ratke, Robert W. Cox, W. Froncisz
 pp. 2622-2628

CHARGED PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION

 Acceleration-field calculation for a
 structure-based laser-driven linear accelerator
 Y. C. Huang, R. L. Byer
 pp. 2629-2632

 Instrumentation for time-resolved electron
 diffraction spanning the time domain from microseconds to picoseconds
 Vladimir A. Lobastov, John D. Ewbank, Lothar Schäfer, Anatoli A. Ischenko
 pp. 2633-2643

 Low energy solid intense ion beams
 extracted by electron beam evaporation ion source for material
 modifications
 Y. C. Feng, S. P. Wong
 pp. 2644-2646

 A reliable calibration method based on ion
 current measurement for an electron beam transition metal deposition
 source
 E. T. Bullock, S. T. Coyle, G. G. Hembree, M. R. Scheinfein
 pp. 2647-2650

NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS

 Construction and operation of parallel
 electric and magnetic field spectrometers for mass/energy resolved
 multi-ion charge exchange diagnostics on the Tokamak Fusion Test
 Reactor
 S. S. Medley, A. L. Roquemore
 pp. 2651-2662

 Fast scanning probe for tokamak plasmas
 J. Boedo, D. Gray, L. Chousal, R. Conn, B. Hiller, K. H. Finken
 pp. 2663-2670

 Ion flux measurements with the improved
 collector probe system at the TEXTOR-94 tokamak
 D. Larsson, M. Rubel
 pp. 2671-2674

 High-speed multishot pellet injector
 prototype for the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade
 A. Frattolillo, S. Migliori, F. Scaramuzzi, G. Angelone, M.
 Baldarelli, M. Capobianchi, P. Cardoni, C. Domma, L. Mori, G. Ronci
 pp. 2675-2680

 Plasma measurements with triple and single
 probes in an asymmetrical parallel plate rf plasma reactor
 Takashi Kubo, Hiroaki Kawata, Kenji Murata
 pp. 2681-2684

MICROSCOPY and IMAGING

 A compact fluorescence and polarization
 near-field scanning optical microscope
 G. Merritt, E. Monson, E. Betzig, R. Kopelman
 pp. 2685-2690

  Design, operation, and housing of an
 ultrastable, low temperature, ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling
 microscope
 J. H. Ferris, J. G. Kushmerick, J. A. Johnson, M. G. Yoshikawa
 Youngquist, R. B. Kessinger, H. F. Kingsbury, P. S. Weiss
 pp. 2691-2695

  New and versatile ultrahigh vacuum
 scanning tunneling microscope for film growth experiments
 M. Wilms, M. Schmidt, G. Bermes, K. Wandelt
 pp. 2696-2703

  One and two dimensional space scannings of
 x-ray beams by diffraction on surface acoustic waves: Application to
 x-ray imaging
 R. Tucoulou, M. Brunel, D. V. Roshchupkin, I. A. Schelokov
 pp. 2704-2707

  A superconducting probehead applicable for
 nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy at 7 T
 F. Odoj, E. Rommel, M. v. Kienlin, A. Haase
 pp. 2708-2712

CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS

  An instrument for in situ growth rate
 characterization of mechanically strained crystals
 A. M. Zikic, R. I. Ristic, J. N. Sherwood
 pp. 2713-2719

  In situ measurements of the solubility of
 crystals under high pressure by an interferometric method
 Yoshihisa Suzuki, Tsutomu Sawada, Satoru Miyashita, Hiroshi Komatsu
 pp. 2720-2724

  Computer-controlled apparatus for Young's
 modulus measurements as a function of temperature
 J. Bayard, T. Philippe, J. Grenet
 pp. 2725-2731

  Solubility of solids in supercritical
 fluids from the measurements of the dielectric constant: Application
 to CO2–naphthalene
 A. Hourri, J. M. St-Arnaud, T. K. Bose
 pp. 2732-2737

  High-pressure cell for neutron scattering
 under cryogenic temperature and high magnetic field:
 The Osaka–Kyoto cell
 Fujitsugu Amita, Akifumi Onodera
 pp. 2738-2741

  A miniature capacitance dilatometer for
 thermal expansion and magnetostriction
 M. Rotter, H. Müller, E. Gratz, M. Doerr, M. Loewenhaupt
 pp. 2742-2746

  Spot welder for making small electrical
 contacts
 I. R. Walker, C. J. Moss
 pp. 2747-2756

CHEMISTRY

  A combined high-pressure reaction
 cell-ultrahigh vacuum chamber with sample transfer system
 T. A. Jachimowski, J. Lauterbach
 pp. 2757-2761

BIOLOGY and MEDICINE

  Three dimensional single-particle tracking
 with nanometer resolution
 Inge M. Peters, Bart G. de Grooth, Juleon M. Schins, Carl G. Figdor,
 Jan Greve
 pp. 2762-2766

GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS

  Technique for measurement of the noise of
 a sensor in the presence of large background signals
 Aaron Barzilai, Tom VanZandt, Tom Kenny
 pp. 2767-2772

  Operation of an 8 m suspended Michelson
 interferometer
 C. Zhao, M. Notcutt, L. Ju, D. Blair
 pp. 2773-2776

  Eddy current damping of high Q pendulums
 in gravitational wave detection experiments
 G. Cagnoli, L. Gammaitoni, J. Kovalik, F. Marchesoni, M. Punturo
 pp. 2777-2780

  Improved low frequency seismic noise
 isolation system for gravitational wave detectors
 Z. B. Zhou, S. H. Fan, F. Long, J. Luo
 pp. 2781-2784

  Lobster-eye all-sky monitors: A comparison
 of one- and two-dimensional designs
 A. Peele, W. Zhang
 pp. 2785-2793

  Novel array antenna for mobile and
 satellite communications with an omnidirectional radiation pattern
 Ranjit Singh
 pp. 2794-2795

ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES

  A pseudorandom pink noise for the
 computer-based measurements of linear responses
 Tohru Kinugawa, Katsumi Sakurai, Takahisa Mitsui
 pp. 2796-2801


 NOTES


  Optical access to the large volume, high
 pressure environment
 R. A. Secco, P. S. Balog
 pp. 2802-2803

  Transfer of samples between separated
 ultrahigh vacuum instruments for semiconductor surface studies
 P. Ji[(r, hacek)]í[(c, hacek)]ek, M. Cukr, V. Kola[(r, hacek)]ík, S. Koc
 pp. 2804-2805

  High repetition inboard launch of hydrogen
 pellets
 P. T. Lang, P. Cierpka
 pp. 2806-2807

  The simple spot-welding apparatus
 Takeshi Hiraoka
 pp. 2808-2809