ISIS provides a wide range of state-of-the-art sample environment equipment, support labs and technical expertise to support ISIS users with their science programmes.
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.
Equipment
Electronics and sample support assist with temperature and position measurement systems as well as test and measurement. Such systems are commonly used on rotary cryostats, furnaces, and positioning systems such as linear tables and goniometers.
A very wide variety of low-temperature equipment is available for ISIS instruments, including dilution refrigerators providing temperatures down to 30mK, 'standard' He cryostats (temperatures down to around 1.5K) and closed cycle refrigerators.
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.
A number of High Pressure systems, P> 0.1GPa, (1kbar), are routinely available to ISIS users.
Eight vacuum furnaces, covering the temperature range 200oC to 2000oC are available for the neutron instruments. Heating elements are either Vanadium, Niobium or Tantalum. All elements and shields are fabricated in-house.
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.
Magnets and cryomagnets
Information & Support
For specific discussions about particular equipment, you can also contact the relevant team members.
Outside standard office hours (08:30 -17:00 Monday-Friday) all requests for help with sample environment equipment must be made through the ISIS Main Control Room or through your local contact.
User-supplied equipment can only be used on experiments after testing and agreement from ISIS.
The ISIS support labs offer users a range of facilities to aid in the preparation and analysis of your samples.
The Team
The electronics and sample support group assists with temperature and position measurement systems. Such systems are commonly used on rotary cryostats, furnaces, and positioning systems such as linear tables and goniometers.
The cryogenics team at ISIS are responsible for superconducting magnets and low-temperature equipment.
The pressure and furnace group are responsible for high temperature, high pressure and gas handling equipment.
