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Hypres: Progress in SC RF for Telecommunications

Richard Hitt, President and CEO, Hypres Inc., and Dr. Elie Track, PhD, Senior Partner, discuss new progress in the use of Superconducting Radio Frequency (SC RF) techniques in telecommunications.

Meyer Tool contributes to Alpha Project

Professors S. Y. Lee and Paul Sokol of the Indiana University Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter (IUCEEM) are currently leading the design effort of a multipurpose electron accelerator called the Alpha Project (Advanced Electron-Photon Facility), which will be operated under a joint collaboration between Crane Naval Surface Warfare...

LHC sets record as highest energy particle accelerator

On March 19, the LHC set yet another energy record as it ramped up to circulate two 3.5 TeV proton beams for the first time.

GE to expand access of MRI systems to underdeveloped regions

GE Global Research has been awarded a four-year, $3.27 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for new magnet technology that will cut back on the costs and inconveniences of current MRI systems.

BNL’s RHIC detects exotic antimatter

From http://www.bnl.gov: An international team of scientists studying high-energy collisions of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has published evidence of the most massive antinucleus discovered to date.

Hypres Figure of Merit for Multi-Stage Cryocoolers

In the Winter 2010 issue of Cold Facts, an article was featured entitled "Hypres: Progress in SC RF for Telecommunications." The article mentions that Hypres has developed a figure of merit (FoM) that allows them to compare cryocoolers with different stages for their applications.

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Joule-Thomson Effect

The Joule-Thomson (JT) effect is a thermodynamic process that occurs when a fluid expands from high pressure to low pressure at constant enthalpy (an isenthalpic process). Such a process can be approximated in the real world by expanding a fluid from high pressure to low pressure across a valve. Under...

Current Leads

One of the challenges of using superconducting magnets is the connection of the magnet to a room temperature power supply. This is accomplished via current leads. The trick is that current leads should ideally have a low heat leak, since they connect room temperature to cryogenic temperature, while at the...

Multilayer Insulation

Multilayer insulation (also referred to as superinsulation) is a key component in the reduction of heat leak to cryogenic systems due to thermal radiation. MLI consists of a series of uncooled reflective surfaces placed in the vacuum space between two surfaces, one warmer than the other. Generally speaking, for ideal...

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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...

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