cryogenic temperatures (below 120 K, -153 °C, -243.4 °F) is often called a cryocooler. The term is most often used for smaller systems, typically table-top...
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Pulse tube refrigerator (redirect from Pulse tube cryocooler)
thermoacoustics. In contrast with other cryocoolers (e.g. Stirling cryocooler and GM-refrigerators), this cryocooler can be made without moving parts in the...
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mechanical cryocooler (which uses high-pressure helium lines). Gifford-McMahon cryocoolers, pulse tube cryocoolers and Stirling cryocoolers are in wide...
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Stirling engine (redirect from Stirling Cryocooler)
only achieved commercial success with the "reversed Stirling engine" cryocooler. They filed a large number of patents and amassed a wealth of information...
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design. Two-stage Stirling cryocoolers can reach temperatures of 20 K, sufficient to liquify hydrogen and neon. Cryocoolers for this purpose are more or...
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Mid-Infrared Instrument (section Cryocooler)
the JWST cryocooler resides in the spacecraft bus and it has lines of coolant that run to the MIRI instrument, chilling it. The cryocooler has a heat...
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mechanical cryocoolers are employed which have sufficient cooling power to maintain magnets below their critical temperature. The Gifford–McMahon cryocooler has...
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years, but was then replaced during the STS-109 servicing mission with a cryocooler that worked continuously. The Webb Space Telescope is designed to cool...
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SWIR cryocooler of the ASTER instrument caused the temperature to gradually increase. By 2008, despite frequent attempts to recycle the cryocooler the...
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technology came to be known as the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler. In the 1970s, the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler was used to make a vacuum pump by Helix Technology...
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Michael Petach (section Cryocoolers)
engineer for Northrop Grumman. His notable work revolved around developing cryocoolers and the traveling-wave thermoacoustic electric generator, a technology...
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of the MRI suite. Modern MRI cryostats use a mechanical refrigerator (cryocooler) to re-condense the helium gas and return it to the bath, to maintain...
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completing the cycle. Modern dilution refrigerators can precool the 3He with a cryocooler in place of liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, and a 1 K bath. No external...
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reach temperatures close to it through the use of evaporative cooling, cryocoolers, dilution refrigerators, and nuclear adiabatic demagnetization. The use...
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cooling system for the IR optics is a modern SADA-II electrically powered cryocooler, removing the need to carry a supply of high-pressure coolant gas cartridges...
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−18 °C (−10 to 0 °F) Freezer, Ice Cream −29 to −23 °C (−20 to −10 °F) Cryocooler: below -153 °C (-243.4 °F) Dilution refrigerator: down to -273.148 °C...
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though the only commercial success was the "reversed Stirling engine" cryocooler. The company filed a large number of patents and amassed a wealth of information...
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dilution refrigerators and cryocoolers, which are essential for applications requiring ultra-low temperatures. Cryocoolers are for instance a requirement...
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micrometre range. Coating around hematocrit tubes. Insulating material for a cryocooler radiation shield. As a window material to confine gas in detectors and...
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regenerative cooling to become the first to statically liquefy hydrogen. Cryocooler Displacer Fluid mechanics Regenerative cooling (rocket) Regenerative heat...
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Canadian-born American electrical engineer, inventor of the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler, and the Science Director, Vice President, Head of the Research and Development...
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germanium crystals. Each was cooled to cryogenic temperatures by a mechanical cryocooler. Germanium provided not only detections by the photoelectric effect, but...
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specific heat capacity at liquid-helium temperatures and is used in cryocoolers; a mixture of 65% Er3Co and 35% Er0.9Yb0.1Ni by volume improves the specific...
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solar arrays (SA3), a new Power Control Unit (PCU) and an experimental cryocooler for the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Columbia...
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Canadian-born American electrical engineer, inventor of the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler, and the Science Director, Vice President, Head of the Research and Development...
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specific heat capacity at liquid-helium temperatures, so is useful in cryocoolers. Neodymium acetate can be used as a standard contrasting agent in electron...
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Superfluid-helium technology is used to extend the temperature range of cryocoolers to lower temperatures. So far the limit is 1.19 K, but there is a potential...
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Canadian-born American electrical engineer, inventor of the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler, and the Science Director, Vice President, Head of the Research and Development...
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handle cryogens.[citation needed] CanariCam used a two-stage closed cycle cryocooler system to cool the cold optics and cryostat interior to approximately...
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liquid helium has been used as a cryogenic refrigerant (which is used in cryocoolers), and liquid helium is produced commercially for use in superconducting...
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