Infrastructure of the European Microkelvin Collaboration

Infrastructure

The MICROKELVIN infrastructure is a distributed network of 3 leading European low temperature laboratories. The laboratories were identified based on their capacity to provide access for sub-mK experiments. The total amount of EU-funded access is 81 user-months.

Helsinki University Of Technology (TKK)
Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Lancaster University (ULANC)

LOW TEMPERATURE LABORATORY, HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TKK)

Equipment offered for access:

Rotating nuclear refrigerator with 300 µK superfluid 3He temperature Stationary nuclear refrigerator with 10 µK nuclear stage temperature
2 dilution refrigerators (20 mK)
2 pulse-tube cooler based dilution refrigerators (20 mK, 0-10 GHz)
Magnetometer model MPMS 5T (1.6 - 400 K and 0 - 5 Tesla)

Support personnel:

3 technicians
1 chief engineer

Amount of access:

27 visitor-months
100 visitor-hours in a professional cleanroom

INSTITUTE N�EL, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, GRENOBLE (CNRS)

Equipment offered for access:

Dilution refrigerator and nuclear demagnetization stage DN1 (100 µK)
Dilution refrigerator and nuclear demagnetization stage DN2 (100 µK)
Dilution refrigerator and nuclear demagnetization stage DN3 (100 µK)
High cooling power dilution refrigerator DR1 (5 mK)
Pulse-tube cooler based dilution refrigerator PT-DR3 (8 mK)
Dilution refrigerator based STM facility (50 mK)
Dilution refrigerator based micro-SQUID facility (100 mK)
Access to the thermometric platform, to the low-field continuous and pulsed NMR spectrometers, and ancillary equipment

Support personnel:

3 technicians
1 chief engineer
2 senior scientists DR1
1 scientist CR2

Amount of access:

27 visitor-months

ULTRALOW TEMPERATURE LABORATORY, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY (ULANC)

Equipment offered for access:

Nuclear refrigerator 1 with superfluid 3He temperature of 100 µK
Nuclear refrigerator 2 with superfluid 3He temperature of 80 µK and nuclear stage temperature of 10 µK
Nuclear refrigerator 3 with superfluid 3He temperature of 80 µK and nuclear stage temperature of 6 µK

Support personnel:

2 technicians
1 senior scientist

Amount of access:

27 visitor-months

Objectives

The primary objective of the present project is the opening up of existing European microkelvin facilities, developed for quantum fluids experiments, to allow experimental nanoscience to progress to this new temperature regime.

Structure

The management of the Microkelvin consortium will focus on six aspects: organization, time, budget, quality, communications, risks and knowledge.

Microkelvin Partners

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European Microkelvin Collaboration Partners