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| Scientific Magnetics relocates from Culham Science Centre to Abingdon |
| March 2010 -
after 10 years based at the Culham Science Centre, Scientific Magnetics
is moving to new premises 4 miles away in
Abingdon. The new facility offers greater flexibility and room for
expansion, with more office space and a larger assembly area.
Moving a short distance ensures that our convenient links to the
national transport networks (road, rail, and air) will be retained.
Details of the new address and contact details can be found by clicking
on the Contact us button above. |
| 3D vector magnet delivered to the University of Halle |
| February
2010 - Scientific Magnetics has delivered a 0.4T/0.4T/0.4T
3-dimensional vector magnet to the University of Halle in Germany.
The magnet
features low hysteresis and residual field integral, and achieves the
full 0.4 T field in any direction with an operating current less than 15
A. The system was delivered complete with a variable temperature
insert which operates between 1.4 K and 300 K. The helium
consumption of the cryostat is less than 400 cm3/hr in static
mode. |
| UHV-compatible 7T/2T vector magnet delivered to the Swiss Light Source |
| February
2010 - Scientific Magnetics has delivered a 7T/2T 2-dimensional vector
magnet to the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute in
Switzerland.
The 7 T field is generated in the beam direction,
with 2 T in the orthogonal direction. Users are able to ramp the main
7 T field at up to 2 T/min. The system is equipped with a variable
temperature insert (1.5 K to 370 K) with fast sample switching and with
50 mm vertical motion and full 360 degree rotational motion. The
sample environment is suitable for measuring very small drain currents
of the order 1 pA and samples can be equipped with 4 additional wires
for transport measurements. The system is cooled by a liquid nitrogen
shielded helium cryostat in a UHV environment. |
| Scientific Magnetics launches a Cryogenic Spares service |
| November
2009 - Scientific Magnetics launches a web-based service to supply
consumables for cryogenics.
The range of products available initially includes - among others -
solders, adhesives, instrumentation, and cryogen handling equipment, and
will be added to constantly. Items will be available in small or
large quantities as required, on short lead times and at very
competitive prices. |
| Peter Daniels joins Scientific Magnetics as Director of Engineering |
| September
2009 - Scientific Magnetics is delighted to announce that Peter Daniels
joined the company on 1 September 2009.
Peter has an international reputation in the field of superconducting
magnets with a long and successful track record at Oxford Instruments
and Oxford Magnet Technology. |
| Scientific Magnetics to supply more superconducting vector magnets |
| June 2009 -
building on the successful development of
superconducting vector magnets for customers across Europe, Scientific
Magnetics has been awarded contracts to supply similar systems to the
University of Halle and the Helmholtz Centre in Berlin. |
| Scientific Magnetics selected to develop an advanced superconducting magnet system for UCN experiments |
| June 2009 -
Scientific Magnetics has been chosen by the Technical University of
Munich to develop a complicated superconducting magnet system for
containment of ultra-cold neutrons.
The magnet system will consist of 46 superconducting coils in both
circular and racetrack geometries. When complete, the system is
expected to be around 2.5 m tall with an overall diameter of 1.5 m. |
| Vector magnet delivered to Diamond Light Source |
| June 2009 -
Scientific Magnetics has delivered a superconducting vector magnet to
the Diamond Light Source. The magnet
generates up to 6 T in one direction, and 2 T in the two orthogonal
directions. The maximum field vector in any direction is 2 T. |
| AMS-02 superconducting magnet cooled to 1.69 K |
| June 2009 -
the AMS-02 superconducting magnet system is
part-way through commissioning at CERN, before integration of the
experiment detectors. During testing, the magnet was successfully
cooled to temperatures as low as 1.69 K. Subsystems including the
novel steady-state cooling loop and thermo-mechanical pumps were
successfully tested. The magnet was quenched several times from a
current of 230 A (a little over half field). One of the main
objectives of the cryogenic system was then achieved: no helium was lost
as a result of the quench, and the system was able to re-cool itself to
the nominal operating temperature of 1.8 K in under 12 hours. This
demonstrated that the magnet could quench in space and re-cool while
retaining sufficient liquid helium to re-charge. One of the
quenches (caused by a trip of the quench detector) occurred during
magnet field plotting: the effects were so benign that the plotting team
tried to continue to plot the field, not noticing that the magnet had
quenched. The system is now being warmed up in preparation for detector integration. |
| Superconducting vector magnets for ISIS and EPFL successfully tested |
| May 2009 -
two large superconducting vector magnets
(for the Swiss Light Source and the ISIS neutron spallation centre) have been successfully tested at full
field. Both magnets are now being assembled into their bespoke
cryostats. |
| VASIMR cryogen-free superconducting magnet completed |
| The
cryogen-free superconducting magnet for VASIMR
- the advanced magneto-plasma propulsion system - has been completed for
the Ad Astra Rocket Company. The magnet system has been installed
and commissioned at the Ad Astra facility in Houston, Texas. This system is one of the largest and most challenging cryogen-free superconducting magnets ever built. |
| AMS-02 superconducting magnet completed |
| December 2008 -
Scientific Magnetics has completed the assembly of the Alpha Magnetic
Spectrometer (AMS-02) superconducting magnet.
With a diameter of 3 m, and weighing in at nearly 3 tonnes, the system
is one of the most ambitious superconducting magnets ever attempted, and
will be at the core of the AMS experiment, studying cosmic rays in space. The
experiment will be mounted on the International Space Station, so the
superconducting magnet has been designed and constructed to withstand
the rigours of launch and landing, and to operate in a hostile,
zero-gravity environment. For a data sheet
describing the AMS superconducting magnet,
click here. |
| Scientific Magnetics to build a cryogen-free superconducting magnet for an ECR ion source |
| December 2008 -
Scientific Magnetics has been selected by Pantechnik, a world-leading
supplier in Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion sources, to supply
the superconducting magnet for its new PK-ISIS source. The cryogen free
superconducting magnet system produces a complex and variable field
profile along the axis and will be delivered to the Pantechnik facility
in Bayeux, France in August 2009. |
| Scientific Magnetics delivers a 5T/1T/1T 3-dimensional vector magnet |
| December 2008 -
Scientific Magnetics has successfully designed, built, installed and
commissioned a 3-dimensional superconducting vector magnet at the
University of Konstanz. The superconducting magnet produces 5 T along
one axis, or a field vector with magnitude 1 T in any direction. |
| Scientific Magnetics and BlueFors sign a joint marketing agreement |
| October 2008 -
Scientific Magnetics and
BlueFors Cryogenics Oy have signed a Joint
Marketing Agreement under which the two companies will collaborate to
address the Physical Sciences and related markets. Scientific Magnetics
will act as agents on behalf of BlueFors in the UK and North America,
and the companies will jointly develop new products to combine their
expertise in cryogen-free magnets and cryogen-free dilution
refrigerators respectively. |
| 6T/2T/2T 3-dimensional vector magnet tested |
| September 2008 -
Scientific Magnetics has successfully tested a 3-dimensional
superconducting vector magnet for the Diamond Light Source.
The magnet produces 6 T on one axis, or a field vector with magnitude 2
T in any direction by combining the fields generated by a set of 3
orthogonally arranged split pair superconducting magnets. Click here for a data sheet on the magnet system. |
| Asymmetric split pair superconducting magnet system commissioned at the SNS |
|
April
2008 - Scientific Magnetics has completed
the installation of a 5 tesla magnet system at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) which is located at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, U.S.A. The magnet system has the advantages of very low stray field (less than 0.0005T at 50cm from the sample), an asymmetric field profile optimised for using polarised Neutron beams, and a compact size. Click here for a data sheet describing the magnet system. |
| Scientific Magnetics to build a superconducting vector magnet for EPFL |
| April 2008 - Scientific
Magnetics has been chosen by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne to design
and manufacture a UHV compatible liquid Helium cryostat and
superconducting magnet for the X-treme end station at the
Swiss Light Source. This system will form part of a UHV chamber to perform X-ray Magnetic Dichroism measurements on magnetic materials and nanostructures in at magnetic fields of up to 7T and temperatures as low as 2K. |
| Scientific Magnetics launches range of low and variable temperature inserts |
|
October
2007 - Scientific Magnetics is now offering a range of low and variable temperature inserts to complement its superconducting magnet products.
Previously, Scientific Magnetics systems have been offered with inserts supplied by Isis Cryogenic Engineering (ICEOxford). However,
the expertise to design and build these inserts has now been brought in-house. This means that complete cryogenic and magnetic systems
can now be supplied with greater efficiency and shorter lead times than ever before. |
| Scientific Magnetics to build a superconducting vector magnet for DLS |
| October 2007 -
Scientific Magnetics has been chosen by Diamond Light Source to design and build a high field and low temperature cryomagnet system
for beamline I06. The system provides the users with the capability of loading samples into a UHV environment where the temperature can be varied between
1.5K and 370K and a magnetic field applied in any direction relative the incoming x-ray beam. This project will build on the recent success of the delivery of a similar UHV compatible 3-d magnet system to Cryovac GmbH of Troisdorf, Germany. |
| Scientific Magnetics to build a cryogen-free superconducting magnet for VASIMR |
|
December
2006 - Scientific Magnetics have been chosen by Houston based, Ad Astra Rocket Company (AARC) as supplier of a large cryogen free magnet
assembly. AARC is a company dedicated to the development of advanced plasma rocket propulsion technology and in particular,
the Variable Input Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) and its associated technologies.
The VASIMR system encompasses three linked magnetic cells; the Plasma Source, RF Booster and Magnetic Nozzle. The superconducting magnet assembly, cooled by up to three cryogenic coolers, will replace existing liquid nitrogen cooled electromagnets in the next VX200 flight-like prototype, scheduled to be in operation at the end of 2007. |