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Oxford Instruments magnet used in levitation experiment of fruit flies offering clues to future of life in space .

New! Cryogenic spares and accessories website

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Dr Graham Batey, from Oxford Instruments NanoScience, winner of the 2011 Business and Innovation Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics - iop.org

This award was obtained for sustained outstanding contribution to the application of low temperature physics in an industrial high technology environment.

Click here to watch the video of Dr Graham Batey (long version).

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Groundbreaking experiment leads the way to faster development of fusion.

Fusion research company Tokamak Solutions has worked with partners at Oxford Instruments, the Czech Technical University and Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague to use high temperature superconducting magnets on a tokamak for the first time. High temperature superconductors have remarkable properties: they conduct electricity with zero resistance, even with simple cooling by liquid nitrogen; they can withstand high magnetic fields and huge current densities – and we now know that they continue to be superconducting throughout the plasma pulse in a tokamak. It has long been known that high temperature superconductors could have an important role to play in the future of tokamak fusion research, but this is the first time they have actually been used for magnetic field coils on a tokamak.

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Oxford Instruments launches new Cryojet5 Nitrogen jet:

Oxford Instruments is proud to announce the launch of its new Cryojet5 which allows crystallography researchers to preserve and study molecular structures by cooling them down to 100 K. The new jet offers the fastest cooldown(5 minutes to reach 100 K), the most economical use of cryogenics, and the most compact and user-friendly system on the market.

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Oxford Instruments NanoScience welcomes Omicron NanoTechnology to the Oxford Instruments Group

Oxford Instruments, based in Tubney Woods, UK, today announced the acquisition of Omicron NanoTechnology based in Taunusstein, Germany. Omicron will join the Nanotechnology Tools Division of Oxford Instruments; a division that already includes Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis, Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology as well as Oxford Instruments Nanoscience.

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Oxford Instruments and D-Wave Technology successful collaboration leads to the first commercial quantum computer system

Triton™, Oxford Instruments’ world leading cryofree™ dilution refrigeration system is an important component in the first commercial quantum computer system to be supplied by D-Wave Systems Inc. Vancouver based D-Wave has announced an agreement to sell a D-Wave One™ quantum computer system to a Fortune 100 company. The Triton™ system provides the low temperature environment that is essential to the performance of its quantum annealing processor. This processor is able to address complex computational challenges that are difficult or impractical to perform using conventional systems, and represents a paradigm shift in processing technology.

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Oxford Instruments launches new products at APS and DPG

This year is very exciting for Oxford Instruments as we are proud to be able to launch a range of new Cryofree products including:

* We sucessfully tested a 18 T solenoid magnet

* Vector rotate

* Split pairs up to 10 T

New range of Mercury instrumentation for intelligent control of cryogenic and magnetic environments.

* MercuryiTC – Intelligent cryogenic environment controller

           • Thermometry down to 250 mK
           • Accurate multi-channel PID control
    * MercuryiPS – Programmable magnet power supply
           • Fully bipolar supplies ± 10 V, ± 60 A to ± 480 A
           • iSense intelligent magnet monitoring
      Compatible with Oxford Instruments and third party products

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* New Oxsoft IDK software allowing design remote control and configuration programs.

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