TY - JOUR

T1 - Cooling metals to the microkelvin regime, then and now

AU - Pickett, GR

PY - 2000/5

Y1 - 2000/5

N2 - Better understanding of the behaviour of materials and the techniques of nuclear cooling, gained in recent years, now allows us to cool metallic samples to the microkelvin regime, with hold times at the higher temperatures of tens of hours. In the early days of nuclear cooling when sources of heat leaks were hardly understood, such performance would have appeared an impossible dream. However, we are now at the point where solid state experiments can be realistically contemplated in the sub-10 mu K regime. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

AB - Better understanding of the behaviour of materials and the techniques of nuclear cooling, gained in recent years, now allows us to cool metallic samples to the microkelvin regime, with hold times at the higher temperatures of tens of hours. In the early days of nuclear cooling when sources of heat leaks were hardly understood, such performance would have appeared an impossible dream. However, we are now at the point where solid state experiments can be realistically contemplated in the sub-10 mu K regime. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

KW - NUCLEAR

KW - microkelvin temperatures

KW - nuclear cooling

U2 - 10.1016/S0921-4526(99)01838-4

DO - 10.1016/S0921-4526(99)01838-4

M3 - Journal article

VL - 280

SP - 467

EP - 473

JO - Physica B: Condensed Matter

JF - Physica B: Condensed Matter

SN - 0921-4526

IS - 1-4

T2 - 22nd International Conference on Low Temperature Physics

Y2 - 4 August 1999 through 11 August 1999

ER -