Review of Scientific Instruments, 2003, V 74, N 7, July.


REVIEW ARTICLE

Free-electron-laser-based biophysical and biomedical instrumentation G. S. Edwards, R. H. Austin, F. E. Carroll, M. L. Copeland, M. E. Couprie, W. E. Gabella, R. F. Haglund, B. A. Hooper, M. S. Hutson, E. D. Jansen, K. M. Joos, D. P. Kiehart, I. Lindau, J. Miao, H. S. Pratisto et al. pp. 3207-3245
ARTICLES

OPTICS; ATOMS and MOLECULES; SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON DETECTORS
Extending the bandwidth of optical-tweezers interferometry Erwin J. G. Peterman, Meindert A. van Dijk, Lukas C. Kapitein, and Christoph F. Schmidt pp. 3246-3249 Instrument and method for measuring second- nonlinear optical tensors Darrell J. Armstrong, Michael V. Pack, and Arlee V. Smith pp. 3250-3257 X-ray detection by an on-chip coil integrated superconducting tunnel junction Keisuke Maehata, Tetsuya Ariyoshi, Akihito Hora, Naoto Mori, Kenji Ishibashi, Tohru Taino, Hiromi Sato, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Katsuya Kikuchi, Masahiro Aoyagi, Hiroshi Akoh, and Yuzuru Matsumoto pp. 3258-3262 Single photon detector fabricated in a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor high-voltage technology A. Rochas, M. Gani, B. Furrer, P. A. Besse, R. S. Popovic, G. Ribordy, and N. Gisin pp. 3263-3270
PARTICLE SOURCES, OPTICS and ACCELERATION; PARTICLE DETECTORS
Feasibility of a synchrotron storage ring for neutral polar molecules Hiroshi Nishimura, Glen Lambertson, Juris G. Kalnins, and Harvey Gould pp. 3271-3278 Characterization of a high-density electron-cyclotron resonance plasma source operating in nitrogen E. I. Toader, A. Fredriksen, and A. Aanesland pp. 3279-3283 Development and applications of time-bunched and velocity-selected positron beams J. P. Merrison, M. Charlton, P. Aggerholm, H. Knudsen, D. P. van der Werf, J. Clarke, and M. R. Poulsen pp. 3284-3292 Thin tape target driver for laser ion accelerator Takuya Nayuki, Yuji Oishi, Takashi Fujii, Koshichi Nemoto, Tsutomu Kayoiji, Yasuaki Okano, Yoichiro Hironaka, Kazutaka G. Nakamura, Ken-ichi Kondo, and Ken-ichi Ueda pp. 3293-3296 Development of movable mask system to cope with high beam current Y. Suetsugu, K. Shibata, T. Sanami, T. Kageyama, and Y. Takeuchi pp. 3297-3304 Transport beam line for ultraslow monoenergetic antiprotons K. Yoshiki Franzen, N. Kuroda, H. A. Torii, M. Hori, Z. Wang, H. Higaki, S. Yoneda, B. Juhasz, D. Horvath, A. Mohri, K. Komaki, and Y. Yamazaki pp. 3305-3311 Vacuum bench for the characterization of thermoionization ion sources C. Guillermier, C. P. Lechene, J. Hill, and F. Hillion pp. 3312-3316 Field-ionization electron detector at low temperature of 10 mK range M. Shibata, M. Tada, Y. Kishimoto, K. Kominato, T. Haseyama, I. Ogawa, S. Matsuki, S. Yamada, H. Funahashi, and K. Yamamoto pp. 3317-3323
NUCLEAR PHYSICS, FUSION and PLASMAS
A fiber–optic interferometer for in situ measurements of plasma number density in pulsed-power applications L. M. Smith, D. R. Keefer, and N. W. Wright pp. 3324-3328 Effect of accelerating electrode rotation on ion beam optics Elizabeth Surrey pp. 3329-3334 Prescription for density profile reconstruction using a heavy ion beam probe A. Fujisawa, M. Kitazawa, A. Shimizu, S. Ohshima, and H. Iguchi pp. 3335-3340 A computerized Langmuir probe system L. S. Pilling, E. L. Bydder, and D. A. Carnegie pp. 3341-3346
MICROSCOPY and IMAGING
Correlated topographic and spectroscopic imaging beyond diffraction limit by atomic force microscopy metallic tip-enhanced near-field fluorescence lifetime microscopy Dehong Hu, Miodrag Micic, Nicholas Klymyshyn, Yung Doug Suh, and H. Peter Lu pp. 3347-3355 Thermal microstrains measured by atomic force microscopy F. Aviles, O. Ceh, and A. I. Oliva pp. 3356-3361 An improved wedge calibration method for lateral force in atomic force microscopy M. Varenberg, I. Etsion, and G. Halperin pp. 3362-3367 Scanning Auger microscopy study of W tips for scanning tunneling microscopy L. Ottaviano, L. Lozzi, and S. Santucci pp. 3368-3378 Charge-coupled device area detector for low energy electrons Miroslav Horacek pp. 3379-3384
CONDENSED MATTER; MATERIALS
Real time technique to measure the electrical resistivity of ultrathin films during growth in plasma environments E. V. Barnat, D. Nagakura, and T.-M. Lu pp. 3385-3389 A new instrument to measure the surface resistance of superconducting samples at 400 MHz E. Mahner, S. Calatroni, E. Chiaveri, E. Haebel, and J. M. Tessier pp. 3390-3394 Use of a double-paddle oscillator for the study of metallic films at high temperatures P. Rosner, K. Samwer, R. O. Pohl, and S. Schneider pp. 3395-3399 Broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectrometer V. P. Denysenkov and A. M. Grishin pp. 3400-3405 A high-resolution synchrotron-radiation angle-resolved photoemission spectrometer with in situ oxide thin film growth capability K. Horiba, H. Ohguchi, H. Kumigashira, M. Oshima, K. Ono, N. Nakagawa, M. Lippmaa, M. Kawasaki, and H. Koinuma pp. 3406-3412 Femtosecond time-resolved dielectric function measurements by dual-angle reflectometry C. A. D. Roeser, A. M.-T. Kim, J. P. Callan, L. Huang, E. N. Glezer, Y. Siegal, and E. Mazur pp. 3413-3422 A miniature x-ray fluorescence setup Carolina Ribbing, Marit Andersson, Klas Hjort, and Hans Lundqvist pp. 3423-3428 A dynamic compressometer for converse electrostriction measurements Rattikorn Yimnirun, Paul J. Moses, Robert E. Newnham, and Richard J. Meyer, Jr. pp. 3429-3432 Whole-cell heater for the diamond anvil cell Natalia Dubrovinskaia and Leonid Dubrovinsky pp. 3433-3437 High power spectrometer for the characterization of photovoltaic cells in a controlled atmosphere or vacuum Frederik C. Krebs and Mikkel Jorgensen pp. 3438-3441
CHEMISTRY
Continuous wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy applied to in situ detection of dinitrogen pentoxide (N2O5) William R. Simpson pp. 3442-3452 Measurement of oxygen atom density employing vacuum ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy with microdischarge hollow cathode lamp Hisao Nagai, Mineo Hiramatsu, Masaru Hori, and Toshio Goto pp. 3453-3459
BIOLOGY and MEDICINE
A multilayer edge-on single photon counting silicon microstrip detector for innovative imaging techniques in diagnostic radiology A. Olivo, S. Pani, D. Dreossi, F. Montanari, A. Bergamaschi, E. Vallazza, F. Arfelli, R. Longo, L. Rigon, and E. Castelli pp. 3460-3465 Near-infrared phase cancellation instrument for fast and accurate localization of fluorescent heterogeneity Yu Chen, Chenpeng Mu, Xavier Intes, Dana Blessington, and Britton Chance pp. 3466-3473 Construction of a laser scanning microscope for multiphoton excited optical fabrication Mallika Sridhar, Swarna Basu, Victoria L. Scranton, and Paul J. Campagnola pp. 3474-3477
GRAVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY and ASTROPHYSICS
High-frequency direction finding in space H. G. James pp. 3478-3486 Passive vibration isolation using a Roberts linkage F. Garoi, J. Winterflood, L. Ju, J. Jacob, and D. G. Blair pp. 3487-3491 Angular truncation errors in integrating nephelometry Hans Moosmuller and W. Patrick Arnott pp. 3492-3501 Pulsed photoacoustic calibration of a differential absorption water vapor lidar Anthony V. Dentamaro and Phan D. Dao pp. 3502-3506
ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVES
A simple, precise, and low jitter delay/gate generator J. Kalisz, A. Poniecki, and K. Rozyc pp. 3507-3509 Optimization of a Josephson voltage array based on frequency dependently damped superconductor–insulator–superconductor junctions Juha Hassel, Heikki Seppa, Leif Gronberg, and Ilkka Suni pp. 3510-3515 Time domain technique to measure solar cell capacitance R. Anil Kumar, M. S. Suresh, and J. Nagaraju pp. 3516-3519 High-voltage multichannel rail gap switch triggered by corona discharges Jorge Niedbalski pp. 3520-3523
THERMOMETRY; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; ACOUSTIC; PHOTOTHERMAL and PHOTOACOUSTIC
Effects of high-temperature heat treatment on Nd3+-doped optical fibers for use in fluorescence intensity ratio based temperature sensing F. Sidiroglou, S. A. Wade, N. M. Dragomir, G. W. Baxter, and S. F. Collins pp. 3524-3530 Photoacoustics of the stressed state in solids K. L. Muratikov, A. L. Glazov, D. N. Rose, and J. E. Dumar pp. 3531-3535 In situ photoacoustic investigations of some optically transparent samples like ice and snow J. C. Kapil, S. K. Joshi, and A. K. Rai pp. 3536-3543
GENERAL INSTRUMENTS
Technique for measuring the groove density of diffraction gratings using the long trace profiler D. Cocco, G. Sostero, and M. Zangrando pp. 3544-3548 Design and analysis of two-dimensional zero-reference marks for alignment systems Yuhang Chen, Wenhao Huang, and Xueming Dang pp. 3549-3553 Obtaining the monodisperse droplets during the gas penetration through a thin liquid film S. M. Kontush, S. S. Rybak, A. Ya. Bekshaev, C. Esen, and G. Schweiger pp. 3554-3558 Fiber optic reflectometer for velocity and fraction ratio measurements in multiphase flows Kuang-An Chang, Ho-Joon Lim, and Chin B. Su pp. 3559-3565
NOTES

Permalloy inductor based instrument that measures the sedimentation constant of magnetorheological fluids L. S. Chen and D. Y. Chen pp. 3566-3568 Crosstalk problems in scanning-by-probe atomic force microscopy M. Varenberg, I. Etsion, and G. Halperin pp. 3569-3571 Integrating sphere charge coupled device-based measurement method for organic light-emitting devices Yongtaek Hong and Jerzy Kanicki pp. 3572-3575 Collinear Thomson scattering diagnostic system for the detection of relativistic waves in low-density plasmas Catalin V. Filip, Sergei Ya. Tochitsky, Ritesh Narang, Christopher E. Clayton, Kenneth A. Marsh, and Chandrashekhar J. Joshi pp. 3576-3578 A low cost high resolution pattern generator for electron-beam lithography G. Pennelli, F. D' Angelo, M. Piotto, G. Barillaro, and B. Pellegrini pp. 3579-3582