... in your academic laboratories and industrial facilities around the world

Leading researchers around the world trust Lake Shore Cryotronics for measurement and control solutions that drive the discovery and development of new materials for tomorrow’s technologies. In electronics, clean energy, nanotechnology, and many other applications, Lake Shore provides the products and systems needed for precise measurements over a broad range of temperature and magnetic field conditions.

Quantum Design UK and Ireland (QDUKI), like Lake Shore, possesses a deep understanding of the needs of researchers exploring next-generation technologies.

The use of rare earths has increased the efficiency of magnetic products by producing high magnetic fields, often in very compact spaces, such as in lightweight electronics, toys, and handheld telecommunications devices.

With this rise in the use of magnets, there’s a greater need for the right testing tools. Some of the instrumentation conventionally used in various phases of inspection may test magnets and magnetic assemblies indirectly, but this type of testing can often provide questionable results or disclose critical flaws too late in the process. Indirect testing might, for instance, fail to detect a faulty or under-performing magnet in a multiple-magnet assembly, or it might fail to identify a magnet that is only marginally defective before it is integrated into a product.

Advancing Energy Research

A lot of R&D today is focused on developing renewable, sustainable sources of energy. This includes the study of promising new organic and thermoelectric materials, as well as technologies that use less power. But there are hurdles to overcome. Solar cell materials, for example, often have low mobilities and to accurately characterise them, you need highly sensitive measurement instrumentation.

Lake Shore Cryotronics provides technology that enables you to accurately measure many of these materials, such as OPV, amorphous silicon, and cadmium telluride solar cell materials.

Lake Shore also offers systems that allow you to:

• Non-destructively measure transparent conductive oxide and dielectric material responses
• Explore vibrational resonances of OTFT and OLED materials
• Measure properties of novel photovoltaic materials
• Characterise photoelectrochemical behaviors of crystals or metal oxides
• Determine magneto-caloric properties for new refrigerator technologies
• Analyse materials for potential use in high-capacity hydrogen storage
• Characterise promising composites and polymers for new supercapacitor designs