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Chinese Physicists Settle Einstein and Bohr’s Quantum Debate

A groundbreaking experiment recreates Einstein’s 1927 thought challenge, confirming fundamental quantum principle. In a landmark study that brings a definitive close to one of the most famous debates in modern physics, a team of Chinese scientists has experimentally validated Niels Bohr’s core quantum principle, demonstrating that a particle’s path and...

Twisted Stacks of 2-D Carbon Act Like a Weird Type of Superconductor

“Magic-angle” graphene could help solve the puzzle of how unconventional superconductors work By Emily Conover Stacks of graphene, carefully twisted, gain a superpower: They become superconductors. Now scientists have new evidence that this “magic-angle” graphene is a member of a truly strange class of superconductor. Like all superconductors, the materials, known...
Images--Left: Current input terminal (100A compatible, size: outermost metal diameter Φ16mm x length 94mm) Right: MS-8 pin terminal (Maximum 110A, size: metal outer diameter Φ41mm x length 72.5mm)

World-First High-Current Terminals for Liquid Hydrogen

Kyocera Corporation (President and CEO: Hideo Tanimoto, hereinafter referred to as “Kyocera”) is pleased to announce that, through joint research with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (hereinafter referred to as “JAXA”), it has developed two new products: a 100A current feedthrough terminal that ensures durability and airtightness in liquid hydrogen...

Making a Splash on Cryogenic Surfaces

Cryogenic surfaces do not hinder droplet splashing, but smaller droplets make smaller splashes. Hannah Richter On a rainy day, a classic physical property is on display: droplet splashing. How liquids splash is not just important for keeping one’s clothes dry, but for applications from inkjet printing to spraying crops to...

CERN Showcases Projects With Environmental Applications

CERN researchers are contributing to a growing number of projects aimed at developing technological solutions to environmental challenges—from fusion power and marine pollution detection to renewable energy distribution and cleaner aviation. These initiatives, carried out with academic and industrial partners, are coordinated through the CERN Innovation Programme for Environmental Applications...

New Evidence Sheds Light on Mystery of Magic-Angle Graphene’s Superconductivity

By Victoria Corless Scientists studying “magic-angle” graphene have captured the clearest evidence yet of the electronic signature behind its superconductivity, cutting through years of speculation about what drives its exotic behavior. “When superconductivity was first discovered in magic-angle graphene, it was surprising,” says Jeong Min Park of Princeton University. “Graphene...

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Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigeration

Reaching temperatures below 1K requires different techniques than the various helium gas cycles found in large scale refrigeration plants and small cryocoolers. One of these techniques is Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigeration (ADR). This technique takes advantage of the fact that the entropy of paramagnetic materials in a magnetic field is lower than...

Cryogen-Free

A cryogen is any fluid that operates at cryogenic temperatures (below roughly 150K – 120K). Using this definition, helium gas at 40K is a cryogen. Another more restrictive definition is to use cryogen to refer specifically to liquids at cryogenic temperatures. This is generally how it is used in the...

Cryostats and Cryocoolers

A cryostat is any device designed to maintain things (including fluids) at cryogenic temperatures. In general usage, cryostats tend to be passive devices rather than providing active cooling. In this usage, cryostats keep things cold by thermally isolating them from room temperature. This generally is accomplished by a combination of...

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...

Power usage: cryogenic systems vs. regular refrigerators

A recent project highlighted to me that closed cycle cryogenic cooling systems use far more electrical power to reduce temperatures by a few watts than regular refrigerators. I am sure it must be something to do with the extra difficulty of removing the heat from the liquid nitrogen or similar...

Redundancy strategies for mechanical -80C freezers

I was wondering what kind of redundancy strategies are people using for their mechanical -80C freezers? I am aware of the following. Please add if you are doing something different. 1) 1 Backup freezer for every 10 freezers – Empty and maintained at -80C at all times 2) Backup C02...

Method to move components in a cryogenic environment

Does anyone know of a method with which to reliably move components in a cryogenic environment? We are interested in moving detectors in a cryogenically cooled (2K) vacuum chamber, which is contained within a larger cryostat/isolation vacuum with thermal shields. As the desired horizontal or vertical displacement is between 10...