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Fine-Tuned Cryogenic Clock Improves Computing Capabilities

Researchers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia have enhanced the cryogenic sapphire clock to achieve near attosecond capability. Also known as a microwave oscillator, the clock features a five cm cylinder-shaped crystal cooled to -269°C.

New Graphene Hybrid Exceeds DOE Goal for Hydrogen Storage

Layers of graphene separated by nanotube pillars of boron nitride may be a suitable material to store hydrogen fuel in cars, according to a new computational study from Rice University published in the journal Langmuir. The material held 14.77 percent of its weight in hydrogen at -321°F, exceeding both current...

New Study Shows Ultracold Electrons Forming Quantum Fluid State

A research collaboration between Princeton University and the University of Texas-Austin has demonstrated that electrons kept at very low temperatures can spontaneously begin to travel in identical elliptical paths on the surface of a crystal of bismuth, forming a quantum fluid state. Such behavior was anticipated theoretically during the past...

Experiment Achieves Strongest Coupling Between Light and Matter

Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in Ontario recorded an interaction between light and matter 10 times larger than previously seen, a coupling between photons and qubits so strong, the group says, that it opens the door to a realm of physics and applications unattainable...

Ames Scientist Receives APS McGroddy Prize

The American Physical Society (APS) has awarded Professor Paul C. Canfield, a senior scientist at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, with its James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials. Over the past three decades, he has helped discover, understand and optimize materials with ferromagnetic and superconducting states as...

CUORE Ready for First Cooldown

Deep within a mountain in Italy, scientists have finished assembling the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) and are now preparing to cool its detector to operating temperature for the first time. More than one decade in the making, the experiment will look for a rare process thought to...

Latest in Defining Cryogenics

Regenerators

Regenerators or regenerative heat exchangers are a key component of cryocoolers such as pulse tube cryocoolers (Cold Facts, August 2014). Regenerator performance greatly affects the coefficient of performance of cryocoolers. Improvements in regenerator design and, in particular, regenerator materials have been an important factor in the improvement of the performance...

Pulse Tube Cryocoolers

The development of pulse tube cryocoolers has been a significant topic of research and development over the past 20 or so years. Pulse tube cryocoolers have a number of advantages over other types of cryocoolers and are now available commercially. In order to understand pulse tube cryocoolers, it’s best to...

Thermal Expansion

Thermal expansion refers to the change in size (length or volume) that a material undergoes as its temperature changes. In cryogenic systems this effect can be quite large and must be allowed for in the design. In isotropic materials, which include most engineering materials, the thermal expansion is the same...

Latest in Cryo Central

Air Separation and Liquefaction

by Nils Tellier, PE, President, EPSIM Corporation (CSA CSM) nils@epsim.us All illustrations courtesy EPSIM Corporation Background History of Air Separation and Liquefaction This section builds on a rich history of methods to develop deep refrigeration and cryogenic liquefaction during the 19th Century. You are encouraged to read Cryo Central’s History...

Bose-Einstein Condensate

A Bose-Einstein condensate, first proposed in 1925 by Albert Einstein based on work done by Satyendra Nath Bose (the same Bose from whom the term boson is derived), is a super-cold state of matter in which almost all of the individual atoms have “condensed” down to the lowest possible quantum...

Cold Technology for Pest Control

While it does not reach temperatures cold enough to be called cryogenic, carbon dioxide snow is at the heart of a new way of dealing with unwanted pests. It utilizes a quick freezing process that takes advantage of the properties of carbon dioxide snow and has a number of benefits...

Cryogenic Finishing

The following 3 articles discuss the uses and procedures of various type of cryogenic finishing. 1) By Robin A. Rhodes, Cryogenic Institute of New England, Inc. rrhodes@nitrofreeze.com Cryogenic Deflashing is employed to remove undesired residual mold flash that remains on molded parts after they are removed or ejected from the...

Latest in Ask the Experts

Looking for the thermal conductivity of the high density polyethylene (HDPE) between 1.9 and 10K

I am looking for the thermal conductivity of the high density polyethylene (HDPE) between 1.9 and 10K (or even up to higher temperatures). The best would be to have these data for the HDPE material which sold by the CERN shop, which has a density of 0.95 g/cm3. Pier Paolo...