[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 38 (Monday, March 1, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11927-11928]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-04079]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


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

    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 
January 27, 2021, the Department of Commerce published a notice in the 
Federal 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, 86 FR 7271, January 27, 2021 
(Notice).We received no public comments.
    Docket Number: 20-010. Applicant: Cornell University, Department of 
Materials Science and Engineering, Carpenter Hall, 313 Campus Road, 
Ithaca, NY 14853. Instrument: Six-axes sample manipulator for ample 
resolved photoemission. Manufacturer: Fermi Instruments, China. 
Intended Use: See Notice at 86 FR7271, January 27, 2021. Comments: None 
received. Decision: Approved. We know of no instruments of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, for such 
purposes as this is intended to be used, that were being manufactured 
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the United States at the time of order. Reasons: According to the 
applicant, the instrument will be used to fabricate on site new 
material and to study its electronic properties with several 
experimental techniques. Angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) will be 
the main technique, as it conveys directly most information needed on 
the electronic structure of the material, e.g., whether it is 
conducting/insulating/superconducting anisotropic, close to an 
electronic instability, likely to undergo an electronic transition, 
etc. According to the applicant, this is of great importance for 
fundamental physics, but in a longer-term perspective, also in order to 
identify the potential of materials for applications, in particular in 
energy production, conversion and storage. The ARPES set up, as well 
as, the molecular beam epitaxy station for materials fabrication, will 
be used as a facility for internal and external users, which will have 
to submit proposals and apply for time to perform their experiments.
    Docket Number: 20-011. Applicant: Cornell University, Department 
and Materials and Science Engineering, Carpenter Hall, 313 Campus Road, 
Ithaca, NY 14853. Instrument: Multi-gas lamp for angle-resolved 
photoemission. Manufacturer: Fermi, China. Intended Use: According to 
the applicant, the instrument will be used to fabricate on site new 
material and to study its electronic properties with several 
experimental techniques. Angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) will be 
the main technique, as it conveys directly most information needed on 
the electronic structure of the material, e.g., whether it is 
conducting/insulating/superconducting anisotropic, close to an 
electronic instability, likely to undergo an electronic transition, 
etc. According to the applicant, this is of great importance for 
fundamental physics, but in a longer-term perspective, also in order to 
identify the potential of materials for applications, in particular, in 
energy production, conversion and storage. The excitation source is a 
key element of any photoemission setup. It provides a beam of light 
which is directed to the sample and causes the emission of the 
electrons, object of the measurement. For angle-resolved photoemission, 
the standard excitation source is a helium (He) gas discharge lamp, 
which excites He atoms and emits light caused by the de-excitation 
process. It is widely used in many laboratories and sold by a few 
companies in the world.
    Docket Number: 20-012. Applicant: University of Minnesota, 
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 421 
Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis MN 55455. Instrument: Spark Plasma 
Sintering Systems. Manufacturer: SUGA Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: 
According to the applicant, the instrument will be used to study a 
variety of structural ceramic and metal materials including refractory 
alloys (e.g., containing combinations of Nb, Ta, W, Mo, Zr, Hf, etc.,), 
(oxide ceramics such as Gd<INF>2</INF>Zr<INF>2</INF>O<INF>7</INF>), 
(Y<INF>5</INF>Al<INF>3</INF>O<INF>12</INF>), and 
Y<INF>2</INF>Si<INF>2</INF>O<INF>7</INF>, and non-oxide ceramics such 
as SiC and Si<INF>3</INF>N<INF>4</INF>. The instrument will also be 
used to study the sintering or consolidation behavior of these 
materials and will be used to prepare dense specimens to be analyzed 
using other instruments. The research focuses on the development or 
materials with improved performance in extreme environments. The 
instrument will be used to generate dense specimens of the materials 
described above, which will subsequently be tested using other methods 
to determine their performance in oxidizing or corrosive environments. 
A key aspect of the investigations involved rapid consolidation in 
order to achieve high density while limiting grain growth associated 
with longer exposures to high temperature used in other sintering 
techniques.

    Dated: February 23, 2021.
Richard Herring,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2021-04079 Filed 2-26-21; 8:45 am]
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