[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 145 (Monday, July 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 60869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16578]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Harvard University et al.; Notice of Decision on Application for 
Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

    This is a decision 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). On 
June 25, 2024, the Department of Commerce published a notice in 
theFederal Register requesting public comment on whether instruments of 
equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which the instruments 
identified in the docket(s) below are intended to be used, are being 
manufactured in the United States. See Application(s) for Duty-Free 
Entry of Scientific Instruments, 89 FR 53045-46, June 25, 2024 
(Notice). We received no public comments.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. We know of no 
instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument 
described below, for such purposes as this is intended to be used, that 
was being manufactured in the United States at the time of order.
    Docket Number: 24-013. Applicant: Harvard University, 17 Oxford 
Street, Jefferson 158, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Narrow 
linewidth single frequency fiber laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai 
Precilaser Technology, Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: According to the 
applicant, the instrument is intended to be used to study for the high 
power (15 W), single frequency laser system at 828. 5 nm will be used 
in a quantum physics experiment at Harvard for optical tweezer trapping 
of rubidium-87 atoms. The available laser power will allow many more of 
these atoms (thousands) to be controlled than previously demonstrated 
(hundreds). This will allow the study of larger quantum systems with 
properties and fidelities far exceeding smaller systems.
    Docket Number: 24-014. Applicant: Drexel University, Rm.-MS 3701, 
Market Street, RM 470, Central Receiving, 34th & Ludlow Streets, 
Philadelphia, PA 19104. Instrument: Battery fabrication equipment. 
Manufacturer: Xiamen TOB New Energy. Intended Use: According to the 
applicant, the instrument will be used to study and understand how 
battery electrodes are made, how to improve their processing, and how 
to make higher performance rechargeable batteries. The battery 
materials include oxides, and carbons and the phenomena is battery 
electrode microstructure and performance.
    Docket Number: 24-015. Applicant: Harvard University, 17 Oxford 
Street, Jefferson 158, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Narrow 
Linewidth Laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilaser Technology, Co., 
Ltd., China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument 
will be used to study the high power (15 W), narrow-linewidth/single 
frequency laser system at 852 nm will be used in a quantum physics 
experiment at Harvard for optical tweezer trapping of rubidium-87 
atoms. Narrow-linewidth operation of the laser is critical to the 
method of optical tweezer generation we use to trap atoms, and as much 
power as possible is needed to perform experiments on the largest 
possible quantum systems. The wavelength of 852 nm is important because 
it is sufficiently far detuned from the atomic transition to provide 
long qubit coherence time.
    Docket Number: 24-016. Applicant: Cornell University, 377 Pine Tree 
Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850. Instrument: Closed-cycle cryostat sample 
manipulator for ultra-low temperature angle-resolved photoemission 
spectroscopy & electron energy loss spectroscopy. Manufacturer: Fermion 
Instrument, China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, the 
instrument will be used to study and conduct two different types of 
experiments: angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and 
electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). ARPES is a technique which 
allows us to measure directly the momentum-resolved single-particle 
electronic structure of materials. EELS is a technique which allows us 
to measure the energy-resolved collective excitations in materials. We 
currently have an electron detector that is, in principle, compatible 
with both techniques.

    Dated: July 23, 2024.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysis, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-16578 Filed 7-26-24; 8:45 am]
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