EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: RASSIAN ACADEMY OF

UNCLAS MOSCOW 002685

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/LRITTER
USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA


E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: RASSIAN ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES (RAS) INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS, CHERNOGOLOVKA,
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, LICENSE NO. D358874

REFTEL: USDOC 03326


1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is
prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act.


2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the
legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Russian Academy of
Sciences (RAS) Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP),
Chernogolovka, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license
application D358874 as the ultimate consignee of one (1) millimeter
source module 90GHZ to 140GHZ, model S08MS-AG, and one (1)
millimeter source module 60GHZ to 90GHZ, model S12MS-AG. These items
are controlled for national security and anti-terrorism reasons
under ECCN 3A002. The licensee is Agilent Technologies, Inc., 1666 K
st., N.W. Suite 420, Washington DC. 20006.


3. On May 11, 2007, Export Control Attach Donald Pearce and FSN
Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment
verification with RAS ISSP, Institutsky pr., 15, Chernogolovka,
Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Vladimir
Kulakovsky, Deputy General Director.


4. ISSP was founded in 1960 as an educational research facility
concentrating on the study of condensed matter physics, materials
science and high technology. The institute employs 207 researchers,
the majority at the Ph.D. level or above. The institute has two
buildings with laboratories and classes located on a closed campus
in the town of Chernogolovka, about 30 kilometers from central
Moscow. Dr. Kulakovsky provided the team with a fifteen-page
overview of ISSP and its research programs, which is available from
post upon request. The facility does no military research, and has
no visiting faculty or students from Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan
or Cuba.


5. The devices in reftel are used in the study of composite fermion,
a new class of particles discovered in condensed matter physics.
The frequency source modules are needed to study the microwave
response from a semiconductor heterostructure in a high magnetic
field. The goal of these studies is to better understand the
composite fermion particle, which may lead to the next advances in
semiconductor materials use.


6. The team was shown a 90GHZ to 140GHZ millimeter source module,
model S08MS-AG with serial number 60821-1 and a 60GHZ to 90GHZ
millimeter source module, model S12MS-AG, 61002-1. Digital
photographs of the units were taken and are available from post upon
request.


7. Recommendations: Post recommends RAS Institute of Solid Physics,
Chernogolovka, Russia as a reliable recipient of sensitive U.S.
origin commodities.
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