“Reinvention lights up optical experiments at low temperatures”
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Product development can often be an incremental process, but Quantum Design took the bold step of assigning three of its most experienced physicists to create a dedicated R&D unit to devise, design and build a new instrument from scratch. “We were told we could work on anything we wanted,” says William Neils, who heads the Q-Works R&D programme. “Our brief was to come up with an idea, follow our noses, and try to invent something new.”
The result? A unique, award-winning magneto-optical cryostat that offers researchers a much larger sample space, unrivalled optical access, and the ability to probe materials at temperatures below 2 K and magnetic fields as high as 7 T. Typical experiments might include optical inspection of a sample using a high-performance microscope objective, or pump−probe experiments that exploit pulses of light to analyse the behaviour and dynamics of materials at different temperatures and magnetic fields.
