ABOUT BAY 1

Building of Bay1 has completed and started operation in 1988. Besides common features in the Microkelvin Laboratory, Bay1 has some special features specially tuned for experiments only possible at the lowest temperatures, such as nuclear spin ordering of solid 3He or nuclear spin in metals.

SPECIAL FEATURES AT BAY 1

The refrigerator:
The refrigerator is equipped with a 128-mole (effective xx mole in 8 tesla) copper nuclear demagnetization stage. The combination of large circulation refrigeration (Oxford model 1000DR) and the copper stage provides lowest temperature range. Double demagnetization technique is used for solid 3He experiments.

The records:
Lowest electron temperature: 40μKelvin
Lowest nuclear spin temperature: xx nKelvin.
Highest B/T: ~2x105 Tesla/Kelvin (the world record.)


BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BAY 1