Leiden Cryogenics B.V. is a company founded in 1992 by Giorgio Frossati that designs and manufactures dilution refrigerators. It has 17 employees including 4 physicists and 12 mechanical engineers trained at the Leiden Instrument Making School. The company is a world leader in dilution refrigerators, having achieved the world's lowest continuous temperature of 1.85 mK. It supplies refrigerators for applications such as neutrino research and gravitational wave detection. Recent developments include new pumping systems, fast cooling probes, and cryogen-free refrigerators capable of cooling very large payloads like the 17 ton CUORE neutrino experiment.
2. Leiden Cryogenics B.V.
Founder - Giorgio Frossati
Plastic heat exchanger.
T=5.5mK Grenoble, 1976
Silver heat exchanger.
T=2mK Grenoble 1978-1982
CRYO1: WORLD RECORD for the
lowest continuous temperature
(T=1.85 mK). Leiden, 1982-1998
Silver Sinter
Heat Exchangers
Plastic
dilution
refrigerators
All welded
dilution
refrigerators
Magnetic field
independent
dielectric
thermometers
Plastic
Pomeranchuk
Cells
Non-metal
pressure
transducer
PhD Grenoble: Ultra Low Temperature Research
World record lowest temperature for 25 years
4. Leiden Cryogenics B.V.
The Company
Founded in 1992 by Giorgio Frossati. Professor at the Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University from 1980-2006.
Workshops:
Kenauweg - Assembling
- Fabrication prototypes
- Cryogenic tests
Ananasweg - Production hall
Number of employees 17
Physicist 4
Electronical engineer 1
Mechanical engineer 12
Most of the engineers were trained at the
Leiden Instrument Making School, founded by
Kamerlingh Onnes
5. Leiden Cryogenics B.V.
The Company
Founded in 1992 by Giorgio Frossati. Professor at the Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University from 1980-2006.
Workshops:
Kenauweg - Assembling
- Fabrication prototypes
- Cryogenic tests
Ananasweg - Production hall
Number of employees 17
Physicist 4
Electronical engineer 1
Mechanical engineer 12
Most of the engineers were trained at the
Leiden Instrument Making School, founded by
Kamerlingh Onnes
13. Leiden Cryogenics B.V.
Fast cool down with the LC Probe
50K
3K
Still (900mK)
50mK
Mc (10mK)
Tmin≤15mK
Advantages:
Possibility of many wires
Easy access to center of
magnet
Fast cooling down to base
temperature (<5 hours)
High cooling power, up to
300W @ 120 mK
14. Leiden Cryogenics B.V.
Cryogen-Free DR – Specials: CUORE
1000 kg
TeO2 crystals
Lead
shielding
LC CF Dilution
Refrigerator
CRYOGENIC UNDERGROUND OBSERVATORY FOR RARE EVENTS
Neutrinoless double-beta decay half-life of Majorana neutrinos
Cooling down 17 tons!!
17. Leiden Cryogenics B.V.
Our compatitors
Short delivery time, small models,
expensive
Short delivery time, small models
UHV specialists Leiden Cryogenics B.V.
Large models, low vibration levels
Large cooling power, lowest temperature
3He is lighter → larger zero point energy
4He will occupy smaller volume → binding energy for 3He atom larger than in 3He
3He is a Fermion and should obey the Pauli principle (no atoms in the same energy state) → increasing energy, so decreasing binding energy of 3He inside 4He
Osmotic pressure of 3He is constant (20 mbar)
Remove 3He gas from the still → will be replaced by 3He from the concentrated phase
Due to a larger enthalpy of 3He in the diluted phase, cooling will occur
Upside-down evaporation