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Sample Environment Equipment

Yes

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No

​We can routinely provide equipment for experiments covering low and high temperature, pressure, gas handling, magnets, motion and temperature control and electronics. Sample environments cover temperature ranges from 25 mK up to 2300 K, pressures from vacuum to 25 GPa, magnetic fields up to 14 T.

In-house expertise is available to support users with their science programmes at ISIS. Team members can also arrange for more unusual apparatus and combinations of parameters to be supplied. 

​To discuss your sample environment requirements please contact Oleg Kirichek or the relevant group.​

 

  • Electronics and sample control
    Electronics and sample support assist with temperature and position measurement systems as well as test and measurement.
  • Gas handling
    A significant number of experiments require gas handling, (GH), facilities; either because the sample is condensed directly from the gaseous phase or the gas used is an integral aspect of sample preparation, or a component of the chemistry being studied.
  • High Magnetic Field
    ISIS has a selection of super conducting magnets; with available fields of up to 13.5 tesla.
  • High pressure
    A number of high pressure systems are available to ISIS users.
  • High temperature
    We are able to provide vacuum furnaces, covering the temperature range 200°C to 2000°C for the neutron instruments and temperatures of up to 1200°C on the Muon beamlines.
  • Low temperature
    A wide variety of low-temperature cryogenic equipment is available for ISIS instruments, including top and bottom dilution refrigerators (=30mK), static exchange gas He4 cryostats (=1.5K) and both top and bottom loading closed cycle refrigerators (=4.5K).
  • Sample containers
    Most experiments are performed using a range of standard ISIS-developed aluminium or vanadium sample containers although there is considerable call for special one-off cells.
  • Soft Matter
    Establishing how and where Sample Environment fits into soft matter and bio materials experiments has become harder due to the diverse range of experiments that has rapidly grown over recent years.
  • User-supplied equipment
    User-supplied equipment can only be used on experiments after testing and agreement from ISIS.
  • Vacuum Equipment
    The sample environment group have a large range of vacuum pumps for experimental support.