Services for Advanced Neutron Environments
Support
Out of hours support is provided in cryogenics during operating cycles. Local contacts, please call 66850 to reach our experts.
Having trouble with an Orange cryostat? Take a look at our Trouble Shooting Guide...
0.04 - 300 K made easy
Change the temperature setpoint and let it do the work for you. Our new gas handling systems for dilution inserts (GHS-DI) cover the 40 mK - 300 K automatically.
Gas handling system for dilution fridges ©Ecliptique - L. Thion
Helium Recycled
Our commitment to the environment began more than five decades ago.
Since 1972, we have delivered more than 3.004.549 litres of liquid helium to the instruments and recycled 89% of this precious natural resource. At today's prices, this represents savings of more than 140.3 M€.
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Safety & Magnets
Please be careful in the vicinity of cryomagnets! The mechanical limits must always be installed and checked before starting an experiment.
40 Tesla down to 2 K
Perform neutron diffraction experiments up to 40 Tesla and 2 K with our pulsed field magnet on IN22.
Designed and built by the LNCMI-Toulouse, the coil produces a horizontal field up to 40 T with the 1.15 MJ transportable power supply. The coil is installed inside a cryostat developed by our team. As for counting times, only a few hours are generally necessary to measure the field evolution of a Bragg peak. This project was financed by the Agence National de la Recherche,
Rev. Scientific Instrum. 89 (2018) 053905
Easy crystal alignment in cryostats
J. Neutr. Res. 19 (2017) 27-32
Request our Goniostick for aligning your sample in a cryostat or cryomagnet.
We have developed a Goniostick for cryostats and cryomagnets based on the idea of Berneron et al. This non-magnetic goniometer fits inside Ø38 bore cryostats and provides ±7° sample tilt with 0.02° resolution. Controlled manually or remotely with NOMAD, it is available with Cryopad, the 10T magnets for TAS and TOF instruments and the 4T horizontal field magnet.
Dilution Fridge Insensitive to Gravity
Did you know that you can perform an experiment with a 100 mK dilution refrigerator mounted in the cradle of D10? This world-unique gravity insensitive dilution refrigerator is operated in closed loop to preserve 3He.
Cryocradle in Cryopad
With our Cryocradle, a non-magnetic Eulerian cradle cooled down to 4 K, carrying out Spherical Neutron Polarimetry experiments on D3 with Cryopad has never been so easy. A second Cryocradle is now available to reduce beamtime losses by cooling a sample while the other is in the beam.
Cradle attached to the cryocooler ©Ecliptique - L. Thion
Langmuir trough
Based on a Microtrough G1 by Kibron, this Langmuir trough is optimised for neutron reflectometry and features sapphire neutron windows, contactless temperature control, PTFE coated aluminuim troughs for fast temperature changes, and of course area or surface tension regulation.
Langmuir trough for neutrons ©Ecliptique - L. Thion
17 Tesla on SANS
To book the horizontal field 17 T cryomagnet, please contact E. Blackburn (Lund Univ.). This magnet provides a +/-11° scattering angle down to 100 mK (sapphire windows).
Book Equipment
The use of our equipment is organised in shared calendars. You can check your bookings, look for availabilities and submit requests.
Order Liquid Helium
Please order your helium at least 48 hours in advance so that we can satisfy your needs.
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ILL is also proud to be a corporate member of the Cryogenics Society of Europe.