FSU Vice President receives Francis G. Slack Award
Kirby W. Kemper, who has served as Florida State University's vice president for research for the past eight years, has received the 2010 Francis G. Slack Award.
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Horst Simon named Deputy Director of Berkeley Lab
Horst Simon has been named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Carl Wieman named Associate Director for Science in the OSTP
Carl Wieman, a Nobel-prize-winning physicist, has been confirmed by the US Senate as Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), according to physicsworld.
Berkeley Lab considers expanding to second site
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which currently sits on just 200 acres, is starting to make plans for a second facility.
LHC discovers “unusual” readings
CERN has issued a statement that the LHC has stumbled across some "unusual" readings which may pave the way for the first significant scientific breakthroughs, an exciting prospect for the particle physics community.
LLNL plans to hire hundreds of new employees
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has announced plans to hire as many as 300 new employees before the end of the year.
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Helium II
Helium II (He II) refers to the second liquid phase of the most abundant helium isotope (4He). Helium II is also referred to as superfluid helium. Helium II occurs once the temperature of the liquid helium drops below 2.17K. The phase transition between the first liquid phase of Helium (referred...
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...
Convert PSI or Torr to Degrees Kelvin?
When using helium vapor bulbs under 30K, what is the formula to convert from PSI or Torr to degrees Kelvin?
Searching for a company to make a specific kind of cryogenic chamber
I am writing a proposal to do some deep space simulations of mechanical vibrations at cryogenic temperatures. For the research, I will need to obtain a chamber that has a space of approximately 1700 cubic inches (or a 12in. cube) that also has an optical viewing window.
Cryogenic cooling as possible treatment of aluminum parts for semiconductor industry
I’m interested in cryogenic cooling as a possible treatment of aluminum parts for the semiconductor industry.