When Kathleen Amm describes how she entered cryogenics, she does not point to a single defining moment. Instead, her path began with movement. In the early 1990s, she followed her thesis advisor Justin Schwartz from the University of Illinois to Tallahassee as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory was opening....

Alexandria Burger, Bluefors – Manufacturing Engineer Manager Current projects: My current focus is leading a team to improve manufacturing efficiencies for 2026. These efficiency improvements will not only offset the increasing costs of materials but also allow us to reduce lead times. I also contribute to manufacturing documentation, 6S events,...

By Corinne Pralavorio The vertiginous descent of equipment into the depths of the accelerator tunnels is always a captivating event. The stars of the show over the last few weeks have been the two gleaming cold boxes that have arrived in the new service tunnels of the High-Luminosity LHC (HiLumi...

Leiden Cryogenics has built a prototype compact dilution refrigerator, dubbed Quper, that can achieve millikelvin temperatures. Developed by the Dutch company in partnership with quantum chip testing startup Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS), the tabletop system has an inverted fridge design and can cool samples below 25 millikelvin before returning to...

As renewable energy, electrification and advanced research technologies continue to expand, the demands placed on wire and cable systems are evolving just as rapidly. Higher power densities, tighter system integration and increasingly extreme operating environments are pushing manufacturers beyond traditional commodity wire solutions. Caleb Lemmons, Business Development Manager at Pelican...

by University of Innsbruck An international collaboration involving researchers from the University of Innsbruck has developed a novel luminescent material that enables particularly robust and precise optical temperature sensing across an exceptionally broad temperature range. Optical luminescence thermometry has been gaining increasing attention, as it allows contactless temperature measurement even under...