Review of Scientific Instruments, 2002, V 73, N 7, July.
REVIEW ARTICLE
High-frequency near-field microscopy
Bj?rn T. Rosner and Daniel W. van der Weide
pp. 2505-2525
ARTICLES
OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON DETECTORS
Optimization of a rotary Q-switched Er:YAG laser
Frank E. Livingston, Steven M. George, and Ramesh K. Shori
pp. 2526-2532
Cryogenic InSb detector for radiation measurements
Ikuo Kanno, Fumiki Yoshihara, Ryo Nouchi, Osamu Sugiura, Tatsuya Nakamura, and
Masaki Katagiri
pp. 2533-2536
Absolute small angle light scattering measurements from weakly scattering
systems in a shear flow apparatus
V. Weber and F. Schosseler
pp. 2537-2543
Long-term drift laser frequency stabilization using purely optical reference
A. Rossi, V. Biancalana, B. Mai, and L. Tomassetti
pp. 2544-2548
PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION; PARTICLE DETECTORS
A moving-mirror frequency modulator for cold atom spectroscopy
P. H. Jones, H. Saunders-Singer, S. Bergamini, and D. R. Meacher
pp. 2549-2551
Studies of electron beams propagation in space-charge regime
L. Martina, V. Nassisi, A. Pedone, P. P. Pompa, and G. Raganato
pp. 2552-2556
Improved alternating gradient transport and focusing of neutral molecules
Juris Kalnins, Glen Lambertson, and Harvey Gould
pp. 2557-2565
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
Modified neural networks for rapid recovery of tokamak plasma parameters for
real time control
A. Sengupta and P. Ranjan
pp. 2566-2577
Optical path length control in plasma absorption measurements
Brett A. Cruden, M. V. V. S. Rao, Surendra P. Sharma, and M. Meyyappan
pp. 2578-2582
A plasma focus driven by a capacitor bank of tens of joules
Patricio Silva, Leopoldo Soto, Jos? Moreno, Gustavo Sylvester, Marcelo Zambra,
Luis Altamirano, Horacio Bruzzone, Alejandro Clausse, and C?sar Moreno
pp. 2583-2587
Penumbral imaging for measurement of the ablation density in laser-driven
targets
Shinsuke Fujioka, Hiroyuki Shiraga, Masaharu Nishikino, Manabu Heya, Keisuke
Shigemori, Mitsuo Nakai, Hiroshi Azechi, Sadao Nakai, and Tatsuhiko Yamanaka
pp. 2588-2596
Absolute measurements of neutron yields from DD and DT implosions at the OMEGA
laser facility using CR-39 track detectors
J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, F. H. S?guin, D. G. Hicks, S. Kurebayashi, R. D.
Petrasso, S. Roberts, V. Yu. Glebov, D. D. Meyerhofer, T. C. Sangster, J. M.
Soures, C. Stoeckl, C. Chiritescu, G. J. Schmid, and R. A. Lerche
pp. 2597-2605
A self-calibrating, multichannel streak camera for inertial confinement fusion
applications
W. R. Donaldson, R. Boni, R. L. Keck, and P. A. Jaanimagi
pp. 2606-2615
Fiberoptic in-vessel viewing system for the International Thermonuclear
Experimental Reactor
Veli Heikkinen, Mauri Aikio, Kimmo Ker?nen, and Minqiang Wang
pp. 2616-2623
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
Determination of mesoscale crystallization by collection-mode polarization
modulated near-field optical microscopy
Pei-Kuen Wei, Sheng-Yu Chiu, and Wei-Lun Chang
pp. 2624-2628
X-ray scattering microscope with a Wolter mirror
Hidekazu Takano, Sadao Aoki, Masaru Kumegawa, Norio Watanabe, Takuji Ohhigashi,
Tatsuya Aota, Kimitake Yamamoto, Hiroki Yokosuka, Ryuichi
Tanoue, Yuji Tsujita, and Masami Ando
pp. 2629-2633
Reconstruction of Abel-transformable images: The Gaussian basis-set expansion
Abel transform method
Vladimir Dribinski, Alexei Ossadtchi, Vladimir A. Mandelshtam, and Hanna Reisler
pp. 2634-2642
Fast driving technique for integrated thermal bimorph actuator toward high-
throughput atomic-force microscopy
T. Akiyama, U. Staufer, and N. F. de Rooij
pp. 2643-2646
Measurement of mechanical properties of three-dimensional nanometric objects by
an atomic force microscope incorporated in a scanning
electron microscope
Kimitake Fukushima, Shigeki Kawai, Daisuke Saya, and Hideki Kawakatsu
pp. 2647-2650
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
Contactless excitation and measurement method for inspection of microstructures
and thin films
Toshihiro Kobayashi, Tamio Hara, Jun Ohsawa, and Naohiro Yamaguchi
pp. 2651-2654
The modified Rankine balance: A highly efficient, low-cost method to measure
low-temperature magnetic susceptibility in rock samples
A. Hagermann and E. Schnepp
pp. 2655-2658
A microbeam collimator for high resolution x-ray diffraction investigations with
conventional diffractometers
Dimitrios Papaioannou and Jos? Spino
pp. 2659-2665
Novel diffractometer optimized for the study of weak superlattice reflections
using crossed parabolic mirrors
S. B. Wilkins, P. D. Spencer, P. D. Hatton, B. K. Tanner, T. A. Lafford, J.
Spence, and N. Loxley
pp. 2666-2671
Rotation sector mounted in front of the screen and outside the vacuum chamber
for the observation of reflection high-energy electron diffraction
Tomohide Takami
pp. 2672-2674
CHEMISTRY
Single molecule tracking scheme using a near-field scanning optical microscope
R. S. Decca, C.-W. Lee, S. Lall, and S. R. Wassall
pp. 2675-2679
BIOLOGY and MEDICINE
Two-photon excitation microfluorometer for multiplexed single-step bioaffinity
assays
Juhani T. Soini, Jori M. Soukka, Erkki Soini, and Pekka E. H?nninen
pp. 2680-2685
Ultrasonic device for measuring periodontal attachment levels
J. E. Lynch and M. K. Hinders
pp. 2686-2693
GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS
Thrust stand for ground tests of solid propellant microthrusters
S. Orieux, C. Rossi, and D. Est?ve
pp. 2694-2698
ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
Optimal three-layer cylindrical magnetic shield sets for scientific applications
E. A. Burt and C. R. Ekstrom
pp. 2699-2704
Electrical characterization of gas discharges using a numerical treatment.
Application to dielectric barrier discharges
M. Petit, N. Jidenko, A. Goldman, M. Goldman, and J. P. Borra
pp. 2705-2712
A low noise transimpedance amplifier for cryogenically cooled quartz tuning fork
force sensors
C. H. Yang, T. H. Chang, M. J. Yang, and W. J. Moore
pp. 2713-2716
Correlation spectrum analyzer for direct measurement of device current noise
Giorgio Ferrari and Marco Sampietro
pp. 2717-2723
Circuit for continuous motional series resonant frequency and motional
resistance monitoring of quartz crystal resonators by parallel
capacitance compensation
A. Arnau, T. Sogorb, and Y. Jim?nez
pp. 2724-2737
Ultracompact explosive-driven high-current source of primary power based on
shock wave demagnetization of Nd2Fe14B hard
ferromagnetics
S. I. Shkuratov, E. F. Talantsev, J. C. Dickens, and M. Kristiansen
pp. 2738-2742
THERMOMETRY; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; ACOUSTIC; PHOTOTHERMAL and PHOTOACOUSTIC
A method to simultaneously determine sorption isotherms and sorption enthalpies
with a double twin microcalorimeter
Lars Wads? and Natalia Markova
pp. 2743-2754
Specific heat and magnetocaloric effect measurements using commercial heat-flow
sensors
Tomasz Plackowski, Yuxing Wang, and Alain Junod
pp. 2755-2765
The application of the photopyroelectric method for measuring the thermal
parameters of pyroelectric materials
A. Hadj Sahraoui, S. Longuemart, D. Dadarlat, S. Delenclos, C. Kolinsky, and
J. M. Buisine
pp. 2766-2772
Assessment of calibration procedures for accurate determination of thermal
parameters of liquids and their temperature dependence using the
photopyroelectric method
Sylvain Delenclos, Mihai Chirtoc, Abdelhak Hadj Sahraoui, Corinne Kolinsky,
and Jean Marc Buisine
pp. 2773-2780
Transient heat flux measurement using a surface junction thermocouple
S. R. Sanderson and B. Sturtevant
pp. 2781-2787
GENERAL INSTRUMENTS
An automatic attenuator device for x-ray detectors at high counting rate
J. Alvarez, E. Paiser, and M. J. Capitan
pp. 2788-2790
Precise positioning control with double feedback loop for ultralarge scale
ntegrated manufacturing machine
Yoshihiko Takahashi and Hideyuki Takahashi
pp. 2791-2796
NOTES
Design, fabrication, and test of a fast scintillation detector preamplifier
T. Bezboruah, K. Boruah, and P. K. Boruah
pp. 2797-2799