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Plastic dilution refrigerators

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A new design for conventional,3He re-circulating, dilution refrigerators has been developed and tested. The units are made out of plastic and can be designed to have very small diameters (<15mm). These characteristics make them ideal to cool samples below 100 mK in high or time-varying magnetic fields. Furthermore, they are inexpensive, reliable and easily constructed. The best refrigerators reach continuous temperatures of around 10 mK at low circulation rates (≈ 100 μmol/s). The cooling power at high temperatures is limited by the speed of the circulation pump and not by the refrigerator itself. The basic design and construction methods are discussed.

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  1. Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Nieuwsteeg 18, 2311, SB Leiden, The Netherlands

    Ewout ter Haar, Raymond Wagner, Clemens M. C. M. van Woerkens, Stephen C. Steel & Giorgio Frossati

  2. Institute of Physics ASCR, 25068, Rez, Czech Republic

    Ladislav Skrbek

  3. Department of Physics and Center for Ultralow Temperature Research, University of Florida, 32611-8440, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Mark W. Meisel

  4. Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, C.P. 20516, CEP 01452-990, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Valdir Bindilatti, Alexandre R. Rodrigues, Ramon Valls Martin & Nei F. Oliveira Jr.

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ter Haar, E., Wagner, R., van Woerkens, C.M.C.M. et al. Plastic dilution refrigerators. J Low Temp Phys 99, 151–166 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00753626

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