40 years of innovation in dilution refrigerator development
From quantum fluids to quantum electronics, Oxford Instruments continues to develop innovative solutions for the most demanding ultra low temperature applications at the forefront of physical science research.
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Applications Bulletin Heliox AC-V
First experimental results with the new HelioxAC-V – demonstration of electron cooling for superconducting bolometer applications.
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Electrons meet helium
In the discovery of the Quantum Hall effect, Electrons trapped on a free surface of liquid helium (He) offer an excellent high mobility 2D electron system.
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High energy resolution x-ray spectrometry with thermal microcalorimeters
An investigation of brute force polarisation of xenon at high magnetic field and ultra low temperatures.
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Low temperature hyperpolarisation of xenon
An investigation of brute force polarisation of xenon at high magnetic field and ultra low temperatures.
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Magnetic resonance force microscopy
Members of the UW Quantum System Engineering Group are pursuing one of the oldest dreams of science: a microscope technology that can image individual atoms within biological molecules, in 3-D,non-destructively, with Angstrom-scale resolution.
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Measuring the chemical potential of a 2D hole gas across the metal-insulator transition
It was expected that the existence of a true zero temperature phase transition would reveal itself in other properties of the system such as the magnetisation and electronic compressibility, ?n/?µ, where µ is the chemical potential and n is the carrier density.
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Multi-Photon transitions between energy levels in a current biased josephson tunnel junction NEW!
Press release describing the research of Dr Diez from the University of Salamanca using the HelioxAC-V.
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ORPHEUS - Cryogenic system for dark matter search a the university of Bern
The Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland has developed “Orpheus”an innovative detector system for dark matter research.
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Probing the lightly hole-doped high-Tc superconductor with low temperature STM
The band structure theory predicts that high-Tc superconductors should behave as metals, however superconductivity appears inside a so-called pseudogap state for underdoped material and close to an antiferromagnetic mott-insulator.
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Revisiting the cold world of quantum computing
An examination of the creation of nanoscale circuits, which, operating at millikelvin temperatures, offer the potential for a processing power greater than that which the laws of classical physics would allow.
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Single-electron transport and quantum current standards
How the Heliox 3He refrigerator is helping NPL’s quantum computing research.
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Spin polarization of xenon films at low temperature induced by 3He
Recently, important applications have arisen for matter prepared with hyperpolarized nuclear spins such as 3He and 129Xe.
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The cold world of quantum computing
The world’s most powerful supercomputer, the Earth Simulator, has a peak performance of 40 tera-flops. Quantum computing offers not only much faster computers but also a whole new way of processing information.
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The evolution of THz sensor technology
Invisible, safe, and capable of detecting concealed weapons as well as poisonous and explosive materials in the air, Terahertz(THz) technology will be at the heart of tomorrow’s defence and security sensors.
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Thermal expansion and magnetostriction measurements
Development of a very small capacitive sensor for measuring thermal expansion and magnetostriction of small and irregular shaped samples.
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ULT Thermometry with GaAIAs Diodes
The use of GaAlAs diodes as temperature sensors may be extended to temperatures in theK range.
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Unravelling superconducting gap stucture by low temperature STM
Combining low temperature techniques with STM / STS (scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy) to study superconductivity at the surface of metallic compounds.
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Unravelling the complexities of nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is a term that hits the headlines with increasing frequency, but what does it actually mean? What are the challenges of working in this area? And how will nanotechnology affect the way we live and work?
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