The Review of scientific instruments

(ISSN: 0034-6748, 1089-7623)

Table of Contents

2013 - 84 (4)

  • Note: Portable total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometer with small vacuum chamber. 
  • Note: Solid state photon counters with sub-picosecond timing stability. 
  • Note: A variable temperature cell for spectroscopy of thin films. 
  • Note: Improved sensitivity of magnetic measurements under high pressure in miniature ceramic anvil cell for a commercial SQUID magnetometer. 
  • Note: Generation of Raman laser beams based on a sideband injection-locking technique using a fiber electro-optical modulator. 
  • Note: Measuring breakdown characteristics during the hot re-ignition of high intensity discharge lamps using high frequency alternating current voltage. 
  • Note: A high Mach number arc-driven shock tube for turbulence studies. 
  • Note: Submicrometer-precision sample holder for accurate re-positioning of samples in scanning force microscopy. 
  • Flow bioreactor design for quantitative measurements over endothelial cells using micro-particle image velocimetry. 
  • Revision of laser-induced damage threshold evaluation from damage probability data. 
  • Ultrafast ultrasonic imaging coupled to rheometry: principle and illustration. 
  • A novel instrument for quantitative nanoanalytics involving complementary X-ray methodologies. 
  • Automated high precision secondary pH measurements. 
  • Novel in situ device for investigating the tensile and fatigue behaviors of bulk materials. 
  • Elevated temperature, nano-mechanical testing in situ in the scanning electron microscope. 
  • A diffracted-beam monochromator for long linear detectors in X-ray diffractometers with Bragg-Brentano parafocusing geometry. 
  • Metal foil gap switch and its electrical properties. 
  • High-resolution fiber optic temperature sensors using nonlinear spectral curve fitting technique. 
  • Formation of nanostructure and nano-hardness characterization on the meso-scale workpiece by a novel laser indirect shock forming method. 
  • Magnetic sensing via ultrasonic excitation. 
  • Heat-conduction error of temperature sensors in a fluid flow with nonuniform and unsteady temperature distribution. 
  • Simultaneous measurement of thermal conductivity and thermal contact resistance of individual carbon fibers using Raman spectroscopy. 
  • A radio frequency/high voltage pulse generator for the operation of a planar multipole ion trap/time-of-flight mass spectrometer. 
  • Printed circuit board metal powder filters for low electron temperatures. 
  • Design and implementation of a 150 GHz single-channel millimeter wave interferometer on Joint TEXT tokamak. 
  • A recursive least squares-based demodulator for electrical tomography. 
  • Apparatus for measuring the Seebeck coefficients of highly resistive organic semiconducting materials. 
  • Precise measurement of a magnetic field generated by the electromagnetic flux compression technique. 
  • A waveguide-coupled thermally isolated radiometric source. 
  • A new approach to kinetics study of the anhydrite crystallization at 373 K using a diamond anvil cell with Raman spectroscopy. 
  • A high-speed magnetic tweezer beyond 10,000 frames per second. 
  • Validation of velocity map imaging conditions over larger areas. 
  • An improved technique of expanding metal ring experiment under high explosive loading. 
  • Analysis of rich inelastic electron tunneling spectra: case study of terthiophene on Au(111). 
  • Axial temperature gradient and stress measurements in the deformation-DIA cell using alumina pistons. 
  • The source-sample stage of the new two-dimensional angular correlation of annihilation radiation spectrometer at Technische Universität München. 
  • A new magneto-elastic resonance based technique to determine magneto-mechanical parameters of amorphous ferromagnetic ribbons. 
  • An experimental apparatus for simultaneously measuring Seebeck coefficient and electrical resistivity from 100 K to 600 K. 
  • Pulsed laser deposition with simultaneous in situ real-time monitoring of optical spectroscopic ellipsometry and reflection high-energy electron diffraction. 
  • A new highly automated sputter equipment for in situ investigation of deposition processes with synchrotron radiation. 
  • Electrokinetic microscopy: a technique for imaging three-dimensional surface topography and heterogeneity of surface material. 
  • Separate-type scanner and wideband high-voltage amplifier for atomic-resolution and high-speed atomic force microscopy. 
  • SODI-COLLOID: a combination of static and dynamic light scattering on board the International Space Station. 
  • Piezoresponse force microscopy at sub-room temperatures. 
  • Tuning donut profile for spatial resolution in stimulated emission depletion microscopy. 
  • Applied magnetic field design for the field reversed configuration compression heating experiment. 
  • The magnetic recoil spectrometer for measurements of the absolute neutron spectrum at OMEGA and the NIF. 
  • Production of large volume, strongly magnetized laser-produced plasmas by use of pulsed external magnetic fields. 
  • Measurement of 2∕1 intrinsic error field of Joint TEXT tokamak. 
  • Electron-ion hybrid instability experiment upgrades to the Auburn Linear Experiment for Instability Studies. 
  • Non-invasive in situ plasma monitoring of reactive gases using the floating harmonic method for inductively coupled plasma etching application. 
  • Conceptual design of the tangentially viewing combined interferometer-polarimeter for ITER density measurements. 
  • A spectrometer on chemical vapour deposition-diamond basis for the measurement of the charge-state distribution of heavy ions in a laser-generated plasma. 
  • Multipoint relative humidity measurement by polyvinyl alcohol-coated Fresnel reflection-based optical fiber sensors with an array-waveguide grating. 
  • Bandwidth-variable tunable optical filter unit for illumination and spectral imaging systems using thin-film optical band-pass filters. 
  • Modular cryostat for ion trapping with surface-electrode ion traps. 
  • Optical emission from a small scale model electric arc furnace in 250-600 nm region. 
  • Measurements with magnetic field in the National Spherical Torus Experiment using the motional Stark effect with laser induced fluorescence diagnostic. 
  • Creation of quantum-degenerate gases of ytterbium in a compact 2D-/3D-magneto-optical trap setup. 
  • Evanescent straight tapered-fiber coupling of ultra-high Q optomechanical micro-resonators in a low-vibration helium-4 exchange-gas cryostat. 
  • Photoionization of optically trapped ultracold atoms with a high-power light-emitting diode. 
  • Energy-scalable temporal cleaning device for femtosecond laser pulses based on cross-polarized wave generation. 
  • Experimental energy resolution of a paracentric hemispherical deflector analyzer for different entry positions and bias. 
  • Counter-propagating dual-trap optical tweezers based on linear momentum conservation. 
  • Comparison of modified driver circuit and capacitor-transfer circuit in longitudinally excited N2 laser. 
  • Integrated multichannel photon timing instrument with very short dead time and high throughput. 
  • Interferometric measurement of angular motion. 
  • Invited review article: Large ring lasers for rotation sensing. 
 
 

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