[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 14, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54366-54367]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-5014]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    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), we invite comments on the question of whether an 
instrument of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which 
the instrument shown below is intended to be used, is being 
manufactured in the United States.
    Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the 
regulations and be filed within 20 days with the Statutory Import 
Programs Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. 
Applications may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Suite 4100 
W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th 
Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 05-038. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, Dept. Of Chemistry/Biochemistry, 9500 Gilman Drive, M.C. 0358, 
La Jolla, CA 92093-0358 Instrument: Low-Temperature Ultra-High Vacuum 
Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Manufacturer: Omicron NanoTechnology. 
GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to:
    (1) Develop a basic understanding of chemically selective 
adsorption onto chemical sensor materials;
    (2) Determine how to optimize interfacial bonding in an effort to 
reduce defects at the crucial oxide/semiconductor interface present in 
high-k dielectric MOSFETs;
    (3) Develop a method to determine concentrations of antibodies that 
are present on the surfaces of cancer cells;
    (4) Optimize the manufacture and processing of mid-IR focal plane 
arrays for use in night vision applications.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 16, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-039. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Eau 
Claire, 105 Garfield Avenue, Eau Claire, WI 54701. Instrument: 
Automatic Fusion Machine, Model Autofluxer 4. Manufacturer: 
Breitlander, GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to 
be used to dissolve whole rock powder by a combination fusion/acid 
digestion for trace element analysis by inductively coupled plasma mass 
spectrometry for geochemical characterization of geological samples. It 
will also be used in courses and for student research. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 16, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-040. Applicant: National Renewable Energy 
Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401. Instrument: Dual Beam 
Focused Ion Beam Microscope, Model Nova 200 NanoLab. Manufacturer: FEI 
Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to 
be used to study the structure and physical chemistry of semiconductors 
used for photovoltaics (solar cells). The general goal of these 
investigations is to better understand the structural and chemical 
properties and relate them to the optical and electrical performance of 
these thin

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film devices. In addition, the FIB will also be used to characterize a 
variety of nano-structured materials such as carbon and metal nano-
structures used for the development of hydrogen storage systems. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 16, 2005.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E5-5014 Filed 9-13-05; 8:45 am]
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