ANR Strudylis
| The kick-off meeting of the Strudylis project financed by the Agence National de la Recherche took place at ILL on the 15th of February.
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| The use of our equipments is scheduled in shared calendars. You can check your bookings and look for the availabilities before scheduling an experiment.
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| Please, order your helium at least 48 hours in advance so that we can satisfy your needs.
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| Please be careful at the proximity of cryomagnets ! The mechanical limits must always be installed and checked before starting an experiment. The magnetic forces measurements are mandatory after each modification of an instrument and the acceptable configurations are summarized in this Safety section.
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| New 10T Cryomagnet |
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 A new vertical field 10T asymmetric split-pair coil cryomagnet will soon be available on the three-axis spectrometers and some of the diffractometers.
This magnet features a recondensation system for reducing the boil-off and an ILL variable temperature insert allowing the Ø39 mm sample to be maintained at any temperature between 1.5 and 300 K. Temperatures down to 40 mK will be accessible with an ILL dilution insert presently under construction. |
| New Power-Rack for Furnaces
| 7 fully automated power-racks have been designed and built for controlling our resistive furnaces. Switch-on, evacuate and enter the setpoint - that's it ! 
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| New 7T Cryomagnet
| A 7T vertical field asymmetric magnet with recondensation unit is under construction for the reflectrometers D17 and SuperADAM. It should be available at the end of the year.
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| New 4 GPa Pressure Cells |
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 We have recently received two new VX-1 Paris-Edinburgh cells. One will be controlled with helium gas and the other with oil. With these new cells, we will better cover the 1-4 GPa pressure range.
Of course, it is planned to build a cryogen-free cryostat similar to the one used to cool down the 100 kbar press so that measurement can be carried out down to 3 K.
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| 0.2 GPa Helium Controller
| In order to improve the control of the continuously loaded pressure cells, we have started the construction of a rack taking advantage of the high-recision 0.2 GPa valve patented by the CNRS. Once available, the exploration of (P, T) spaces should become easy. 
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| Do you have a pioneering idea that could change the way we provide support to our users, or perhaps an innovation that could allow our users to carry out innovative experiments ?
Either way, we value your opinion and want to understand how we can constantly improve. Leave us your feedback and be assured that we will carefully review all suggestions. |
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| We use about 100 tons of 4He per year for cooling down the samples and the superconducting coils. In 2009, only 5.6% of this fossil energy has been lost thanks to the efforts made by our scientists, technicians and users (see our statistics). |
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