A & N Corporation Accel Instruments GmbH Advanced Design Consulting Advanced Research Systems, Inc. Advent Associates, Inc. Alan Burrill Technical Sales Automation Equipment Company, Inc. Blake Industries, Inc. Bruker AXS, Inc. Brush Wellman Electrofusion Products Canberra Industries, Inc. Goodfellow Corporation Hiden Analytical Inc. Johnsen Ultravac Kohzu LDS Vacuum Products Mar USA, Inc. Midwest Vacuum, Inc. Newport Corporation Oregon Micro Systems Oxford Cryosystems, Inc. Oxford Danfysik Oxford Instruments Inc. Pfeiffer Vacuum, Inc. Roper Scientific Struck Innovative Systeme GmbH TecRep Corporation Televac Thermo Vacuum Generators Vacuum One Varian Vacuum Technologies X-ray Instrumentation Associates

Special thanks to Blake Industries for sponsoring the pre-dinner cocktail reception at the meeting banquet, which will be held Wednesday, October 10, at the Brookfield Zoo.

A & N Corporation 707 SW 19th Avenue Williston, FL 32696 Telephone: (352) 528-4100 Fax: (352) 528-3441  WWW address: www.ancorp.com A & N Corporation offers high- and ultra-high vacuum components including ISO-KF (QF) flanges and fittings, ISO-MF (LF) flanges and fittings, UHV (CF) flanges and fittings, ASA flanges and fittings, Tri-Seal flanges and fittings, vacuum couplings, feedthroughs, and vacuum valves (including ball, right-angle, in-line, bakable all-metal, gate, and butterfly).

Accel Instruments GmbH Friedrich-Ebert Strasse 1 D-51429 Bergisch-Gladbach Germany Telephone: 011 49 2204 842500 Fax: 011 49 2204 842501 WWW address: www.accel.de ACCEL Instruments GmbH specializes in scientific instumentation in the fields of accelerators and magnet systems. Besides our large involvement in superconducting and normal-conducting accelerator components, we are building beamlines and beamline components for synchrotron facilities. We design, manufacture, install, and commission beamlines as turn-key systems (e.g., for protein crystallography). We have our own designs for double-crystal and double-multilayer monochromators, mirror systems, slit systems, and all sorts of beam monitors and all other beamline components. In addition, we develop single components based on customer specification or built to print with our design office and our in-house workshops.

Advanced Design Consulting 126 Ridge Road P.O. Box 187 Lansing, NY 14882 Telephone: (607) 533-3531 Fax: (607) 533-3618 WWW address: www.ADVDES.com

Advanced Research Systems, Inc. 905 Harrison St., Suite 109 Allentown, PA 18103 Telephone: (610) 439-8022 Fax: (610) 439-1184  WWW address:  www.ARScryo.com Advanced Research Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures the DISPLEX closed-cycle and the HELITRAN open-cycle families of cryogenic coolers that operate in the 1.7-800K temperature range. ARS integrates the cryostats providing custom interfaces, instrumentation, vacuum shrouds, radiation shields, sample holders, temperature controllers, and vacuum systems for each cryocooler.

Advent Associates, Ltd. 2644 Dempster Street #109 Park Ridge, IL 60068 Telephone: (847) 298-7970 Fax: (847) 298-7972 E-mail: advent_bud@msn.com Advent Associates, Ltd. offers instruments, systems, and components for vacuum processes.

Alan Burrill Technical Sales 8129 W. Lincoln Avenue West Allis, WI 53219 Telephone: (414) 327-9055 Fax: (414) 327-8131  E-mail: AWBurrill@earthlink.net Alan Burrill Technical Sales is a manufacturer's representative firm that specializes in vacuum and thin-film hardware, instruments, components, and systems. We represent the following companies:  ADVANCED FLUID SYSTEMS: Magnetic fluid rotary feedthroughs, service of all brands of magnetic fluid feedthroughs.  CERAMASEAL: Ceramic-to-metal components, connectors, viewports, feedthroughs, high-temperature terminals and assemblies, custom fabrications, high-density circular and D-connectors.  HUNTINGTON MECHANICAL LABORATORIES: Vacuum hardware, feedthroughs, valves, custom chambers, positioning devices, flanges, fittings, connecting hardware, traps, roughing components, and accessories. INDEL SYSTEMS: Thin-film processing systems including optical coating, in-line sputtering, plasma enhanced CVD, batch metallizing, diamond and DLC, ion sources. NU VACUUM SYSTEMS: Large high-vacuum chambers, manifolds, shrouds, and subsystem assemblies. RICOR CRYOGENIC AND VACUUM SYSTEMS:  Coolstar series of cryopumps and cold heads, water vapor pumps, compressors, and Coolstar accessories. SIGMA INSTRUMENTS: Six-channel quartz crystal monitors, single-channel and multi-channel thin film deposition controllers, crystal sensors, crystals, and accessories. TELEDYNE HASTINGS INSTRUMENTS: Hastings Instruments line of vacuum gauges and mass flow instruments (Authorized distributor in parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Michigan.)

Automation Equipment Company, Inc. 832 E. Rand Road Mt. Prospect, IL 60056 Telephone: (847) 398-7550 Fax: (847) 398-7594 WWW address: www.aecmotion.com Automation Equipment Company (AEC) represents the following companies: PARKER: Full  lines of servo and stepper motor controls, activbators, and positioning systems. SMAC: Voice coil activators, grippers, and mini linear activators. AEC:  Motion distribution.

Blake Industries, Inc. Blake Industries, Inc. 660 Jerusalem Road Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 Telephone: (908) 233-7240 Fax: (908) 233-1354  Blake Industries will be exhibiting the Huber line of rotary tables and accessories for synchrotron and laboratory experimentation.

Bruker AXS, Inc. 5465 E. Cheryl Parkway Madison, WI 53711 Telephone: (608) 276-3000 Fax: (608) 276-3006  WWW address: www.Bruker-AXS.com BRUKER AXS Inc. supplies a comprehensive line of analytical x-ray instruments for use in home laboratories and at synchrotron sources. Our main products are goniometers and CCD detectors for x-ray diffraction and scattering experiments and associated software. With over 400 installations world wide, Bruker has more experience than any other company in the manufacture and installation of these systems. Bruker offers several types of CCD detectors from the extremely sensitive 61 mm square APEX to the innovative and award winning 300 mm diameter lens-coupled PROTEUM 300. Three-circle and Kappa goniometers can be used with these detectors. Alternatively, they can be fitted to an existing goniometer or used as stand-alone units (e.g., for SAXS). Software for single-crystal, powder diffraction, SAXS, thin films, polymer diffraction, and pole figures is available. Bruker AXS and Nonius of Delft, Netherlands, have recently formed a new Bruker AXS business unit named Bruker Nonius; this enhances our single-crystal products in particular.  Service and training are available for all major products.

Brush Wellman Electrofusion Products 44036 S. Grimmer Boulevard Fremont, CA 94538 Telephone: (510) 623-1500 Fax (510) 623-7600 Email: Electrofusion@BrushWellman.com WWW address: www.brushwell.thomas-register.com ELECTROFUSION PRODUCTS, a division of Brush Wellman, is a world leader in the fabrication of specialized assemblies made from advanced materials for the scientific, medical, and commercial industries since 1966.  We are able to offer our customers improved services at competitive prices. We are dedicated to producing beryllium windows, UHV products, as well as sheet and foil fabrications and services. Our services include electron beam welding, vacuum furnace brazing, atmospheric brazing, water jet cutting, diffusion bonding, adhesive bonding, surface treatments and coatings, and specialized machining.  Our references are both domestic and international, including several national laboratories (Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, and Los Alamos), NASA, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, ESRF, DESY, CERN, Rutherford Accelerator Laboratory, Heraeus, General Electric, Kevex, Oxford-Danfysik, Phillips, Siemens, and Varian to mention a few.

Canberra Industries, Inc. 800 Research Parkway Meriden, CT 06450 Telephone: (203) 639-2148 Fax: (203) 235-1347  WWW address: www.canberra.com Canberra Industries is the world's leading supplier of analytical instrumentation and application-oriented systems used for the measurement and quantification of radioactive materials. Canberra products respond to the needs of the nuclear research, environmental monitoring, health physics, safeguards, and waste management markets.

Goodfellow Corporation 800 Lancaster Avenue Berwyn, PA 19312-1780 Telephone: 1-800-821-2870 Fax: 1-800-283-2020  WWW address: www.goodfellow.com Goodfellow supplies small quantities of metals, alloys, ceramics, and polymers for research and industry. A comprehensive range of materials is available in many forms including rods, wires, and foils. There is no minimum order quantity and items are stocked for immediate shipment worldwide. Custom-made items are available to special order.

Hiden Analytical Inc. 75 Hancock Road Suite H Peterborough, NH 03458-1100 Telephone: (603) 924-5008 Fax: (603) 924-5009 WWW address:  www.hidenanalytical.com For almost 20 years Hiden Analytical has been a global leader in the design and manufacture of scientific instruments for research, development, and production applications. In vacuum, gas analysis, surface, and plasma processes, our range of RGAs and quadrupole mass spectrometers have gained world-wide recognition for their precision and outstanding performance. Our range of gravimetric analyzers offers state-of-the-art solutions in the measurement of moisture sorption characteristics of materials and in gas-solid interactions. Complementing our analytical instruments, the Proteus multistream valve provides unrivalled performance in process and environmental gas sampling.

Johnsen Ultravac, Inc. 3470 Mainway Burlington, ON L7M1A8 Canada Telephone: (905) 335-7022 or 1-800-268-4980  Fax: (905) 335-3506  WWW address: www.ultrahivac.com Johnsen Ultravac manufactures a wide range of ultra-high-vacuum beamline components such as crystal mount assemblies, mask assemblies, collimators, photon shutter assemblies, safety shutter assemblies, and mono shutter assemblies. These parts are manufactured and tested to ANL/APS beamline specifications. Other UHV products include surface analysis systems, deposition systems, combination surface analysis with multi-technique deposition systems, end stations, and UHV chambers with vacuum base pressure of < 5 x 10-11 Torr. Our range in UHV sample manipulation instruments includes six-axis manipulators with sample stage temperature from 10 K to 1,600 K, ultra-long travel linear translators, and the widest range in XYZ manipulators with XY motion from +/- 12.5 mm to +/- 100 mm. Custom design upon request.

Kohzu America, Inc. 11501 Dublin Blvd. Suite 200 Dublin, CA 94568-2856 Telephone: (925) 551-5182 Fax: (925) 551-5183 WWW address: www.kohzuamerica.com

LDS Vacuum Products, Inc. 975 Sunshine Lane Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 Telephone: (407) 862-4643 Fax: (407) 862-8723  WWW address: www.lds-vacuum.com LDS is a supplier of low-cost vacuum components, vacuum pumps, and helium leak detection equipment. LDS has an A2LA accredited calibration laboratory for gas leaks and vacuum gauges.  NIST traceable standards are used. Shop LDSVACUUM.COM for thousands of vacuum related items and FREE online shipping!

Mar USA, Inc. 1880 Oak Avenue Evanston, IL 60201-5937 Telephone: (847) 869-1548 Fax: (847) 869-1587 WWW address: www.mar-usa.com Mar USA develops, manufactures, and markets imaging detector systems for x-ray diffraction applications. Current products include the 165 mm diameter marCCD and the 345 mm diameter marresearch Imaging Plate system. These systems have set the standrad at the synchrotron for high performance-highest quality data, high speed, ease of use, and ultra reliability. Marresearch detector systems are also remarkably affordable!

Midwest Vacuum, Inc. 201 E. Ogden Avenue, Suite 15-1 Hinsdale, IL 60521 Telephone: (630) 323-5399 Fax: (630) 323-2142  WWW address: www.midwestvacuum.com Midwest Vacuum, Inc. is a manufacturer's representative company, supplying vacuum to ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) components, chambers, valves, safety systems, gauges, plasma diagnostic instrumentation, thin-film measurement systems, pumps, and He-leak Detectors and systems. The available systems span from evaporation to sputtering, e-beam, ion source, pulsed laser deposition, CVD, and a multitude of special systems. Midwest Vacuum can supply laboratory R&D systems to industrial roll coaters as well as specialty He-leak detectors. Midwest Vacuum, Inc. was founded 18 years ago and today has a competent staff of five full-time and two part-time employees to support customers' needs. We represent some of the industry's foremost names for quality and performance and are proud to serve our customers. Call us for any of your vacuum or UHV needs and they will try to help find the best possible solutions.  Midwest Vacuum represents companies such as Alcatel Vacuum Products, Inc.; ATR; Busch Semiconductor; Comvat (a division of VAT); Darly Custom Technology; EVAC International, Inc.; Flowmeca; Hull Vacuum; IGC-APD; IGC-Polycold; K-Space; MKS-Spectra Division; Nor-Cal Products, Inc.; Oxford Instruments; PVD Products, Inc.; Scientific Systems, Inc.; Sycon; VAT, Inc.; and VTS.  They distribute for Vaccubrand, Duniway Stockroom, and Demaco Holland.

Newport Corporation 1791 Deere Avenue Irvine, CA 92606 Telephone: 1-800-222-6440 Fax: (949) 253-1800  WWW address: www.newport.com Newport Corporation is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of high-precision components, instruments, and integrated systems to fiber optic communications, semiconductor equipment, computer peripherals, and scientific research markets. The company's innovative products enhance productivity and extend the test, measurement, and automated assembly capabilities of customers involved in precision manufacturing, engineering, and research applications. Customers include Fortune 500 corporations, technology-based companies, and research laboratories in commercial, academic, and government sectors worldwide.

Oregon Micro Systems 1800 NW 169th Place Suite C100 Beaverton, OR 97006 Telephone: 1-800-707-8111 or (503) 629-8081 Fax: (503) 629-0688 WWW address: www.omsmotion.com Oregon Micro Systems develops and markets precision multi-axis motion controllers for embedded control applications. For over 15 years, we have delivered precision motion controllers including PCI, PC/104, cPCI, ISA, and VME bus-based controls, as well as Stand-Alone controllers to the global marketplace. In fact, over 500,000 OMS axes of motion are currently in use around the world, demonstrating our proven reliability and leadership. In addition to controllers, Oregon Micro Systems offers software, motors, drivers, and accessories. Our controllerís flexibility and ease of use reduces development cost and time-to-market. Further, Oregon Micro Systems is an ISO 9001 certified company.

Oxford Cryosystems, Inc. 220 Wood Road Braintree, MA 02184-3201 Telephone: (781) 843-5900 Fax: (781) 843-5945 WWW address: www. OxfordCryosystems.com Oxford Cryosystems, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of open-flow nitrogen and helium systems for x-ray crystallography. These systems include the Cryostream cooler and the Oxford helix. Also see Oxford Cryosystem's range of cryo accessories and x-ray diffraction software, "Crystallographica."

Oxford Danfysik 6 Pinewood Road Chelmsford, MA 01824 Telephone: (978) 455-6761 Fax: (978) 455-6762  WWW address: www.oxford-danfysik.com Oxford Danfysik supplies x-ray beamlines components, and end stations to synchrotron facilities around the world. Components supplied include monochromators and high-quality x-ray optical systems (including mirrors up to 1.5 m in length in conjunction with SESO), often including cooling, manipulation, and bending mechanisms. Detectors supplied include ion chambers for intensity monitoring and high-quality EXAFS and the fast, integrated Cyberstar scintillation counter system.  Oxford Danfysik was formerly the Beamlines Group of Oxford Instruments.

Oxford Instruments Inc. 130A Baker Avenue Extension Concord, MA 01742 Telephone: (978) 369-9933 Fax: (978) 369-6616 WWW address: www.oxford-instruments.com

Pfeiffer Vacuum, Inc. 24 Trafalgar Square Nashua, NH 03063 Telephone: (603) 578-6500 Fax: (603) 578-6550  WWW address: www.pfeiffer-vacuum.com Pfeiffer Vacuum is the technology leader in vacuum pumps, instruments, and service with over 100 years of vacuum experience and expertise. Pfeiffer is the single source for all vacuum needs in developing, producing, and marketing key components for high-energy physics, research and development, semiconductor fabrication, and analytical instrumentation.

Roper Scientific 3440 E. Britannia Drive, Suite 100 Tucson, AZ 85706 Telephone: (520) 889-9933 Fax: (520) 573-1944  Web address: www.roperscientific.com

Struck Innovative Systeme GmbH Harksheider Str. 102A D-22399 Hamburg, Germany Telephone: 011 49 40 608 73050 Fax: 011 49 40 608 730520 WWW address: www.struck.de Struck Innovative Systeme (SIS) manufactures board-level electronics and DAQ systems for particle physics and related fields. We will present our novel 8-channel 100 MHz 12-bit SIS3300 VME digitizer, which is perfectly suited for the readout of multi-channel germanium and similar detectors, to give one example. In combination with the optical gigabit-link-based SIS1100/3100 PCI-to-VME interface, the SIS330 and/or modules of our SIS380x scaler/multiscaler family can be used to cover a range of high-speed DAQ applications. On the beamline controls side, the SIS2900 monochromator stabilizer (which is built under license of DESY/HASYLAB and is in user at several synchrotron light sources) complements our SRI product line.

TecRep Corporation 1919 S. Highland Avenue Suite 330. Bldg. A Lombard, IL 60148 Telephone: (630) 627-9110 Fax: (630) 627-9129 WWW address: www.Tec-Rep.com

Televac 2400 Philmont Avenue Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 Telephone: (215) 947-4444 Fax: (215) 947-7464 WWW address: www.televac.com

Thermo Vacuum Generators, Inc. 8407 Central Avenue Newark, CA 94560 Telephone: (510) 494-8001 Fax: (510) 494-8089  100 Cummings Center Suite 435G Beverly, MA 01915 Telephone: (978) 921-8885 or 1-800-482-2485 Fax: (978) 921-8872 Email:  USASales@vacgen.com WWW address: www.vacgen.com A long-established worldwide market leader in the design and manufacture of vacuum components, Thermo Vacuum generators has recently introduced some new and exciting products, including a range of manipulation equipment, drives, and other vacuum components. A full range of high-quality vacuum equipment and hardware is now available to you direct from our U.S. offices.

Vacuum One 2502 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60614 Telephone: (773) 244-3102 Fax: (773) 244-3975  WWW address: www.vacuumone.com Vacuum One is an elite Midwest sales representative firm based in Chicago.  We represent Leybold Vacuum, Inficon, Granville-Phillips, CTI-Cryogenics, MDC Vacuum Products, ISI, Physical Electronics, ADVACO, and SAES Getters. We cover the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, and western Michigan. Our philosophy is to represent vacuum industry leaders and offer a total vacuum solution to our customers.

Varian Vacuum Technologies 121 Hartwell Avenue Lexington, MA 02421-3133 Telephone: 1-800-882-7426 Fax: (781) 860-5405  WWW address: www.varianinc.com Varian Vacuum Technologies is a recognized world leader in the design, manufacture, and application of high-vacuum products for research and industrial applications. The ConFlat flange, VacIon pump, and ContraFlow leak detection system, which are world standards, were all invented by Varian.

X-ray Instrumentation Associates 8450 Central Avenue Newark, CA 94560 Telephone: (510) 494-9020 Fax: (510) 494-9040 WWW address: www.xia.com X-ray Instrumentation Associates develops and sells advanced components for x-ray experimentation. Our line of high-speed digital x-ray processing modules for Ge or Si(Li) array detectors can handle output rates in excess of 500,000 cps. We also offer a compact, inexpensive, serially controlled stepper motor drive for Huber slits, an in-hutch shutter/filter set with controller, and a differential pump with line-of-sight molecular beam suppression.