1. MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING
12/5/2018
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2. 12/5/2018
MICROKELVIN SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Capacities Specific Programme Research Infrastructures
EUROPEAN MICROKELVIN COLLABORATION
Mikko Paalanen
Helsinki University of Technology
Low Temperature Laboratory
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3. HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY TKK
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HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY TKK
TKK was founded in 1908
students and 220 professors
Budget 223 M€ in 2007
Direct government funding about 120 M€/year
TKK will disappear in 2010
Merged with 2 other universities into Aalto University
Aalto University will be a ”private” university
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4. LOW TEMPERATURE LABORATORY
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LOW TEMPERATURE LABORATORY
Independent research laboratory of TKK
Total number of personnel 110
Total budget about 5.5 M€/year
Total replacement value of infrastructure about 8 M€
Research directions:
Ultra low temperature physics 25%
Neuromagnetic brain research 45%
Quantum electronics 30%
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5. MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING
12/5/2018
ULTI INFRASTRUCTURE Single-site transnational access-giving infrastructure operated by the LTL
Long history
ULTI I 1994 – 1998, FP4, Coordinator O.V. Lounasmaa
ULTI II 1998 – 2000, FP4, Coordinator OVL
ULTI III 2000 – 2004, FP5, Coordinator MP
ULTI 2004 – 2008, FP6, Coordinator MP
Services for European low temperature community
Transnational access to sub-mK refrigerators
User Meetings in 1994, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2008.
Bridge between Russian and European scientists
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6. HIGHLIGHTS 1998 ULTI USER MEETING IN LAMMI
12/5/2018
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7. MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING
MICROKELVIN EU-funded network of 12 European low temperature laboratories
12/5/2018
PARTICIPATING INSTITUTE SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATIVE
1. Helsinki University of Technology Mikko Paalanen
2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble Henri Godfrin
3. Lancaster University George Picket
4. Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg Christian Enns
5. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College John Saunders
6. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Francesco Giazotto
7. Ustav Experimentalnej Fyziky Slovenskej Akademie Vied Peter Skyba
8. Universitaet Basel Dominik Zumbühl
9. Technische Universiteit Delft Teun Klapwijk
10. BlueFors Cryogenics Rob Blaauwgeers
11. Universiteit Leiden Tjerk Oosterkamp
12. Physicalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin Thomas Schürig
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8. MICROKELVIN Objectives
12/5/2018
To integrate and upgrade the leading microkelvin facilities in Europe.
To assemble a critical mass to work effectively on large scale issues and provide access to a wider range of European users.
To create new capability by exploiting the combined microkelvin capacity of these facilities for new areas of physics, especially nanophysics.
To enhance the capacities of the access-giving facilities.
To network the members of the low temperature and related research communities, the scientists with cryoengineers and the end-users with access providers, to facilitate cross-disciplinary sharing of knowledge.
To disseminate the expertise of the core institutes to the wider community by the development of compact, user-friendly, refrigerators for microkelvin research in low-infrastructure environments.
To foster the development of the next generation of refrigerators and instruments for ultra-low temperature measurements.
To develop strategies and tools for the long-term building of a virtual European Ultralow Temperature Laboratory.
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9. MICROKELVIN Activities and budgets
12/5/2018
TOTAL BUDGET ,40 € (EU-funding ,50 €)
MANAGEMENT
NA1: Managing MICROKELVIN Collaboration (Tentative budget €)
NETWORKING ACTIVITIES (Tentative budget €)
NA2: Coordination of transnational access
NA3: Knowledge and technology transfer
NA4: Strengthening European low temperature research
TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES (Tentative budget €)
TA1: Access to TKK
TA2: Access to CNRS
TA3: Access to ULANC
JOINT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (Tentative budget €)
JRA1: Opening microkelvin regime to nanoscience
JRA2: Ultralow temperature nanorefrigerator
JRA3: Attacking fundamental physics questions by μK condensed-matter experiments
JRA4: Novel methods and devices for ultra low temperature measurements
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10. MICROKELVIN Expected impact
12/5/2018
The Impact on European infrastructure
Improved European infrastructure in the microkelvin field for higher capacity and quality services, both in the access-giving units and those jointly involved. This is the prime aim of our integrated action.
A better educated workforce in the access-giving centres with enhanced microkelvin skills and new capabilities.
Restructured and stronger ERA by founding the Virtual European Low Temperature Laboratory by 2012.
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11. MICROKELVIN Expected impact
12/5/2018
The Impact on wider community
Increased number of scientists and engineers using advance microkelvin technology, through the dissemination of both knowledge and infrastructure-independent machines to university laboratories and SMEs.
Increased number of low temperature laboratories using He-saving user-friendly cooling methods.
A better educated workforce in the peripheral regions where such experience would otherwise be difficult or impossible to acquire.
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12. MICROKELVIN Expected impact
12/5/2018
The Impact on new knowledge and its exploitation
The focus on nano- and material sciences at microkelvin temperatures as the themes of the integration will lead to the production of novel materials, material production techniques arising from the imperatives of the new temperature regime.
The same focus will also lead to novel nanoscale refrigerators and quantum devices with capabilities which are only realized at microkelvin temperatures.
The same focus should also lead to new discoveries being revealed in this new temperature regime.
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13. MICROKELVIN Management structure
12/5/2018
MICROKELVIN Management structure
European
Commission
Project coordinating person
Management Committee
Advisory Board
Management Office
Administrator
Web-officer
Legal advisor
NA-TEAM
Coordinator
Dissemination Committee
JRA-TEAM
TA-TEAM
Selection Panel
General
Assembly
JRA4
Activity
TA1
TA3
TA2
NA4
NA3
NA2
NA1
JRA3
JRA2
JRA1
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14. MICROKELVIN Selection of officials by General Assembly
12/5/2018
MICROKELVIN DOCUMENTS
Grant Agreement
Description of Work (Annex 1 of Grant Agreement)
Consortium Agreement
MICROKELVIN MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE AND OFFICIALS
General Assembly person per participant
Coordinator TKK
Project Coordinating Person 1 person*
Management Office 3*
Management Committee 3*
Scientific Advisory Board 5 – 7*
Selection Panel plus 5*
Dissemination Committee 1 person per participant
Activity Coordinators 3*
Activity Leaders 11*
* to be selected by the General Assembly later today
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15. MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING
12/5/2018
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16. MICROKELVIN TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES
12/5/2018
MICROKELVIN TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES
MICROKELVIN will offer access to microkelvin refrigerators
TKK Espoo, Finland 27 visitor-months 18 users 14 projects
CNRS Grenoble, France 27 visitor-months 18 users 14 projects
ULANC Lancaster, UK 27 visitor-months 18 users 14 projects
MICROKELVIN will open microkelvin regime for nanoscientists
TKK Micronova, Finland 100 visitor-hours 5 users 5 projects
MICROKELVIN will support the users of the infrastructure
Scientific support
Logistic and technical support
Outreach to new users
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17. MICROKELVIN TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES
12/5/2018
MICROKELVIN TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES
MICROKELVIN will pay
travel and housing expences to the visitors
per diem to the visitors to cover their other expences
access fee to the host institute (about €/visitor-month)
Access fee includes
rent of the facility
salaries of the support personnel
consumables
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18. MICROKELVIN TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES
12/5/2018
MICROKELVIN TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES
Selection Panel
Common panel for all 3 sites
1 representative from each access site plus 5 outside members
ULTI Selection Panel: Reyer Jochemsen, Matti Krusius, Paul Leiderer,
Mikko Paalanen, George Pickett, Bernard Placais, Luciano Reatto, Peter Skyba
Selection Criteria
The accepted experiments have to represent excellent science with unique goals.
They have to be technically feasible for the available instruments in our facilities.
Scientific and technical progress is expected.
Preference is given to first time users from countries lacking low temperature facility.
Special attention will be paid to new EU-countries and young starting professors.
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19. TKK Low Temperature Laboratory
12/5/2018
TKK Low Temperature Laboratory
AMOUNT OF ACCESS OFFERED
27 visitor-months
100 visitor-hours in a professional cleanroom
EQUIPMENT OFFERED FOR ACCESS
1) a rotating cryostat with a 300 K base temperature
2) a stationary cryostat with a 10 K base temperature
3) 2 cryostat with 20 mK base temperature
4) 2 cryostats with 20 mK base temperature, 24 hour cool down time to 100 mK
temperature, and 0-10 GHz range for high frequency experiments
5) magnetometer model MPMS 5T (Quantum Design), for fast susceptibility, magneto- and Hall resistance measurements at K temperatures and Tesla fields.
SUPPORT PERSONNEL
2 technicians working in the machine shop
1 technician delivering the cryoliquids
1 chief engineer in charge of the cryohall and the semi clean room
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20. CNRS GRENOBLE Institute Néel
12/5/2018
CNRS GRENOBLE Institute Néel
AMOUNT OF ACCESS OFFERED
27 visitor-months
EQUIPMENT OFFERED FOR ACCESS
1. The ultra-low temperature dilution refrigerator and nuclear demagnetisation DN1 (100 μK),
equipped with two different nuclear stages (Lancaster-type and lamellar type)
2. The ultra-low temperature dilution refrigerator and nuclear demagnetisation DN2 (100 μK –
presently being installed - available end 2009)
3. The ultra-low temperature dilution refrigerator and nuclear demagnetisation DN3 (100 μK
available at the end of 2009 in the Canfranc underground site (LSC) for experiments
requiring good cosmic-ray shielding.
4. The high cooling power and very low temperature dilution refrigerator DR1 (T < 5 mK)
5. The very low temperature pulse-tube cooler based dilution refrigerator PT-DR3 (T < 8 mK)
6. The dilution refrigerator based 50 mK-STM facility,
7. The dilution refrigerator based 100 mK-micro-SQUID facility,
8. Access to the thermometric platform, to the low-field continuous and pulsed NMR
spectrometers, and ancillary equipment.
SUPPORT PERSONNEL
3 technicians
1 chief engineer
2 senior scientists DR1
1 scientist CR2
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21. LANCASTER UNIVERSITY Ultralow Temperature Laboratory
12/5/2018
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY Ultralow Temperature Laboratory
AMOUNT OF ACCESS OFFERED
27 visitor-months
EQUIPMENT OFFERED FOR ACCESS
Cryostat 4 cools superfluid 3He down to 100 μK
Cryostat 2 cools superfluid 3He down to < 80 μK, copper down to 10 μK
Cryostat 5 cools superfluid 3He down to < 80 μK, copper down to 6 μK
SUPPORT PERSONNEL
2 technicians
1 senior scientists
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22. MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING
12/5/2018
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23. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN PUBLICATIONS
12/5/2018
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN PUBLICATIONS
These experiments were performed in the Low Temperature Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology and supported by MICROKELVIN, the EU FP7 infrastructure grant #
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24. TRANSFER OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
12/5/2018
TRANSFER OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Employees funded by MICROKELVIN project should transfer their IPRs to the participating University!
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