Center for Emerging Energy Sciences

Projects - Low Temperature and Creator:

Professor Robert Duncan has extensive experience in Quantum Sensing and in Low-Temperature Physics. We offer design, fabrication, and consulting support for the development of quantum systems for both space and terrestrial applications. This includes: 1) technology for temperature measurement and thermal management and wire and coaxial cable heat sinking, 2) cryogenically-actuated devices for flow and heat control and routing, 3) Quantum sensing systems using SQUIDs, Josephson junction arrays, and other superconducting system designs, 4) superfluid physics and control, and methods of cryogenic cooling of these systems in earth and space applications. Please contact us for consultation, and to discuss how we can best assist your group's needs.

Articles that are representative of Dr Duncan's prior experience in low-temperature physics, both for terrestrial and space applications:

1) Critical phenomena in microgravity: Past, present, and future

2) Breakdown of Fourier's Law near the Superfluid Transition in ⁴He

3) Demonstration of an UltraStable Thermal Platform

4) Experiments in Fundamental Physics scheduled and in development for the ISS

5) Demonstration of an Ultra-Stable Temperature Platform

6) PdMn and PdFe: New Materials for Temperature Measurement Near 2 K

7) Measurement of the SOC state heat capacity in ⁴He

8) Observation of Self-Organized Criticality Near the Superfluid Transition in ⁴He

9) The Magnetic Properties of Sputtered Pd_{1 −x}Mn_x Films for Thermometry and Bolometry

10) Critical Dynamics in Microgravity

11) 2010 Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration

Below: SQUIDs located on a temperature controlled stage in a vacuum cryostat, with radiation shields and the surrounding removed. Note that most of these components and the overall construction was custom designed and fabricated within Duncan's group.

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