Berlin, Germany, 3
August 2007: HTS-110
has shipped the first of its 5 tesla HTS Beamline magnets to the Hahn-Meitner
Institute in Berlin, Germany. It is the most powerful magnet to date
from the New Zealand company, achieving an impressive 5.4 tesla during
testing, well above the 5 tesla minimum target. The magnet is destined
for magnetic diffraction research at the Berlin Electron Synchrotron (BESSY),
Germany's advanced synchrotron radiation facility.
Weighing less than
100kg and occupying slightly more space than a carry on travel case, the
magnet is a feat of mechanical, cryogenic and superconducting design and
engineering. The design constraints were significant, with the magnet
required to fit within a rotating cradle to allow observation of
vertical and horizontal scattering from the 10mm diffraction slit.
A pulse tube cryo-refrigerator
provides quiet, low vibration, low maintenance cooling, while HTS-110
designed control and monitoring electronics provide safety and power
management.
In its new facilities,
the magnet will be used by a wide variety of physicists studying
resonant magnetic scattering and high resolution diffraction on HMI's
beamline diffraction instrument "MagS".
Professor Michael
Meissner, head of the sample environment group at HMI, is excited about
the addition of the high performance magnet to their advanced facility.
"The HTS-110 cryomagnet has been designed to adopt a 3-stage closed
cycle refrigerator (CCR) that allows rotation of the sample in the
field. This kind of unique set-up marks a milestone in cryogen-free
sample environment systems for beamline condensed matter research,
allowing experiments to be performed at temperatures from 0.6 K to 600
Kelvin and at magnetic fields up 5.4 tesla."
Dr Donald Pooke, CTO
of HTS-110 notes that "this is a fantastic technical achievement after a
very challenging design and fabrication process". He adds that "this has
only been possible due to the dedication of our production team and the
amazing technical resource in local engineering partners".
Dr Pooke sees beamline
magnets such as these as a significant opportunity for HTS-110. A second
5 tesla HTS beamline magnet, for ANSTO in Australia, is shipping soon.
"The HMI beamline magnet represents a significant step forward for
HTS-110, technically and commercially. We have not only cemented our
"total solutions" strategy by supplying turn-key systems, we can now
look at magnets of 6 tesla and beyond using HTS technology, opening up
further exciting opportunities."
More information on
the MagS Beamline can be found
here.
More information on
HTS-110 is available
here.
