Date of Award
12-2008
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Physics
First Advisor
Clement Burns
Second Advisor
Lisa Paulius
Third Advisor
Asghar Kayani
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Campus Only
Abstract
Low temperature research requires the use of very specialized equipment to achieve temperatures in the milli- or microkelvin range. Dilution refrigeration has become the work horse of the low temperature research and is the standard technique for cooling below 1 Kelvin. However, the most common techniques involving dilution refrigeration require the use a copious amounts of liquid helium to pre-cool the circulating 3He and an inner vacuum can. Although other "dry" dilution refrigerators are available commercially, this paper will try to describe the building of a new design of refrigerator that incorporates a pulse-tube refrigerator, a 3He evaporation cryostat, and a ^e/^He dilution refrigerator. This will be a closed-cycle system, thus minimizing the requirement of cryogen liquids, making the entire system better suited to certain experimental situations.
Recommended Citation
Adams, Daniel Roy, "A Closed Cycle 3He/4He Dilution Refrigerator for Use In Cryogenic Studies" (2008). Masters Theses. 189.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/189