Custom and Speciality Systems

Our established depth of technical expertise and hands-on engineering experience in the design and manufacture of superconducting magnets and cryogenic systems, enables us to create tailored solutions for customers’ specific application and experimental needs.

Our world-leading capabilities are successfully applied in custom-engineered special systems including the following applications:

Beamline sample environments for neutron scattering, X-ray scattering, and muon spin resonance

Advanced coil geometry, split-pair superconducting magnet systems with helium-recondensing, Cryofree^®, or conventionally helium-cooled cryostats
Active shielding available on high field, wide angle split pair systems to reduce magnetic footprint
Asymmetric and dual mode (selectable symmetric/asymmetric) magnet design for inclusion of polarised neutron experiments
Integrated variable temperature insert (VTI), ³He refrigerator, or dilution refrigerator
VTI systems can be extended to lower temperatures by a 'secondary insert' HelioxVT ³He refrigerator or KelvinoxJT dilution refrigerator
VTI systems can have extended upper temperatures to 800 Kelvin

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“Outsert” magnets for ultra-high field

High field and wide magnet bore combinations (with high stored energy up to several MJ), for superconducting magnets utilising high temperature superconductor (HTS) insert coils, for example:

15 Tesla, 250 mm magnet bore
19 Tesla, 150 mm magnet bore

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Unique laboratory research systems

The highest field, commercially available, compact magnet systems up to 20 T at 4.2 K
Systems requiring large experimental space – for example, 18 T, 150 mm magnet bore to enable a rotatable SPM head

Dark matter research

High field and wide magnet bore combinations, as driven by the experimental strategy, where the field volume product (B²V) is a key driver of detector cavity Q factor.

Solid-state NMR, EPR, ESR, and related applications

Magnet systems with:

High homogeneity
High persistence (low drift rate)
Additional sweep coils
Active shielding
Room temperature bore or integrated VTI

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Our unique experience

Such “custom-engineered specials” build on our years of technology development, coupled with the real-world manufacturing experience gained from a vast back-catalogue of these specially-designed systems.

We have been pioneers in the field since Oxford Instruments’ foundation in 1959 by Sir Martin Wood. Much as we are proud of this heritage, we do not solely rely upon our past achievements. We bring our wealth of experience to every new opportunity and challenge, to provide our customers with their own world-leading capabilities – whether in superconducting magnets, ultra-low temperatures, cryogenics, or combinations of all three. Thousands of installed Oxford Instruments systems in leading research laboratories around the world testify to the success and reliability of our technologies and solutions.

By working with our custom system specialists, alongside our leading technologists and engineers, customers are able to develop their system requirements into a realisable specification and design. Our team will work closely with you to balance your system requirements and budget.

The above illustrates just a small cross-section of our typical applications. Please contact one of our offices by clicking here to discuss your project and requirements with us.

Publications:

The design and test of an STM-MFM microscope combo for use in a 52 mm diameter 18 T / 20 T superconducting magnet

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A compact high field magnetic force microscope

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18 T / 20 T high magnetic field scanning tunnelling microscope with fully low voltage operability, high current resolution, and large scale searching ability

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