[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 30 (Monday, February 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 7362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3394]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of California; Notice of Decision on Application for 
Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    This decision is made pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, 
Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-
651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be viewed 
between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 4211, US Department of Commerce, 
14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
    Docket Number: 99-032. Applicant: University of California, Los 
Alamos, NM 87545. Instrument: Solid State Quantum Computer, Model 
Multiprobe S. Manufacturer: Omicron Vakuum Physik GmbH, Germany. 
Intended Use: See notice at 64 FR 72649, December 28, 1999.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as it is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the 
United States. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides an ultra-high 
vacuum chamber with compatible scanning probe, scanning tunneling and 
atomic force microscopes for depositing an array of phosphorus atoms on 
a silicon surface having the following capabilities: (1) An operating 
temperature range from 25 to 1500 degrees K, (2) adequate internal and 
external vibrational damping and isolation and (3) a 10 m x 10 
m x 1 m scan range to be used in a solid state 
quantum computer. A university center for advanced microstructural 
devices and the National Institute of Standards and Technology advise 
that (1): These capabilities are pertinent to the applicant's intended 
purpose and (2) they know of no domestic instrument or apparatus of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument for the 
applicant's intended use.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured 
in the United States.

Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-3394 Filed 2-11-00; 8:45 am]
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