[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 249 (Friday, December 28, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76456-76457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-31309]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
Pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651, as amended
by Pub. L. 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301), we invite comments
on the question of whether instruments of equivalent scientific value,
for the purposes for which the instruments shown below are intended to
be used, are being manufactured in the United States.
Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the
regulations and be postmarked on or before January 17, 2013. Address
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 3720, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Applications may be
examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at the U.S. Department of
Commerce in Room 3720.
Docket Number: 12-058. Applicant: Regents of the University of
California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS
46R0125, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument: Neodymium Iron Boron (NdFeB)
Magentic Block--HXU Model (Vacodym 776). Manufacturer: Vacuumschemelze
GmbH & Co KG, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to
study matter on the fundamental atomic length scale and the associated
ultrafast time scales of atomic motion and electronic transformation.
The NdFeB magnet blocks must be of high magnetic field density to
achieve the base spectral range. They must also be of high uniformity
in order to achieve Free-Electron Laser (FEL) saturation. In addition
to meeting these requirements, the unique capabilities of this
instrument are expanded spectral reach, x-ray beams with controllable
polarization, and ``pump'' pulses over a vastly extended range of
photon energies to a sample, which are
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synchronized to the Linac Coherent Light Source II project's ray probe
pulses with controllable inter-pulse time delay. Justification for
Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: December 17, 2012.
Docket Number: 12-063. Applicant: University of Pittsburgh, 4200
Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Instrument: Dilution Refrigerator
with 9/2/2T Vector Superconducting Magnet. Manufacturer: Leiden
Cryogenics, the Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used,
in conjunction with the instrument imported under docket 12-065, to
develop ways for preserving quantum information in a way that is immune
to a wide variety of decoherence mechanisms, to program fundamental
couplings at near-atomic scales, for the quantum simulation of
``metasuperconductors,'' and to develop new mechanisms for the transfer
of quantum information between long-lived localized states and
delocalized states. The samples to be studied are a thin layer of
LaAIO3 (LAO), grown on SrTiO3, which undergoes a
metal to insulator transition when the LAO thickness is greater than 3
unit cells. The unique features of this instrument are the ability to
cool samples to T<50 mK using cryogen-free cooling where possible, an
integral cryogen-free 3 axis vector magnet (>5/1/1 T), an integral
large field magnet (>18T), the ability to rotate the orientation in a
large field, and scanning probe microscopy capability at base
temperature (T<50mK). These features enable the sample to be cooled
below the superconducting transition temperature (Tc~200mK), to be
rotated in any orientation relative to the magnetic fields, allow the
investigation of the large spin-orbit field present in the samples
(Bso~15T), and on nanometer size scales gate, modify and probe nanowire
devices and quantum dot arrays. Justification for Duty-Free Entry:
There are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in
the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
December 12, 2012.
Docket Number: 12-065. Applicant: University of Pittsburgh, 4200
Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Instrument: Motorized Two Axis
Sample Rotator for Dilution Refrigerator. Manufacturer: Attocube
Systems, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used, in
conjunction with the instrument imported under docket 12-063, to
develop ways for preserving quantum information in a way that is immune
to a wide variety of decoherence mechanisms, to program fundamental
couplings at near-atomic scales, for the quantum simulation of
``metasuperconductors,'' and to develop new mechanisms for the transfer
of quantum information between long-lived localized states and
delocalized states. The samples to be studied are a thin layer of
LaAIO3 (LAO), grown on SrTiO3, which undergoes a
metal to insulator transition when the LAO thickness is greater than 3
unit cells. The unique features of this instrument are the ability to
cool samples to T<50 mK using cryogen-free cooling where possible, an
integral cryogen-free 3 axis vector magnet (>5/1/1 T), an integral
large field magnet (>18T), the ability to rotate the orientation in a
large field, and scanning probe microscopy capability at base
temperature (T<50mK). These features enable the sample to be cooled
below the superconducting transition temperature (Tc~200mK), to be
rotated in any orientation relative to the magnetic fields, allow the
investigation of the large spin-orbit field present in the samples
(Bso~15T), and on nanometer size scales gate, modify and probe nanowire
devices and quantum dot arrays. Justification for Duty-Free Entry:
There are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in
the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
November 29, 2012.
Dated: December 20, 2012.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Import Administration.
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