Mit der Verkündung Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments im Bundesanzeiger, Bd. 77, Heft 139, S. 42483, lädt die International Trade Administration des Wirtschaftsministeriums in Washington, DC, am 19. Juli 2012 zur Beantwortung dieser Frage bei der folgenden beabsichtigten Einfuhr ein:
Docket Number: 12-033.
Applicant: UChicago Argonne, LLC, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439.
Instrument: Low-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope System.
Manufacturer: CreaTec, Germany.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to investigate properties of materials and novel phenomena related to nanoscale science. This instrument is specialized for creating artificial nanoscale structures on an atom-by-atom basis using nascent atom manipulation techniques. The instrument will be used to investigate the amount of force required to move one atom on a materials surface while simultaneously measuring local electronic structural changes during atom movement.