Notice2024-16578
Harvard University et al.; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 145 (Monday, July 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 60869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[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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