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Adiabatic demagnetization technique to reach 1 K with a closed-cycle refrigerator

✍ Scribed by A.M. Vallêra; J.Maia Alves; E. Ducla-Soares


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
162 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0011-2275

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✦ Synopsis


We describe an adiabatic demagnetization technique requiring no liquid helium, which can be used to reach temperatures in the 1 K range, using a closed-cycle refrigerator and Gd2(SO4)3.8HO as a paramagnetic salt. We started from temperatures in the 1 0 K region and used relatively modest magnetic fields (~ 1.4 T). The salt warmed up at an initial rate of 0.3 K h 1. We suggest the relevance of this technique, which entails very low running costs, for research centres with no liquid helium facilities.