Our institute - the Institute of Solid State Physics - is situated in the Freihaus Building of TU Wien right in the center of Vienna. For the Dry Dilution Refrigerator, we chose a low-vibration room on the 4th underground floor that we can design and tailor to meet our needs. Here, we have access to cooling water, HV electricity, and materials for vibration and noise damping. The room has a high ceiling and a crane just above the cryostat, which we can operate from the floor or balcony level.

Five gold-plated circular copper plates attached to one another with glass fiber rods. Every plate has a different temperature. The bottom one is the mixing chamber plate with the lowest temperature.

© IFP

Dry Dilution Refrigerator

A zoom of two gold-plated circular copper plates. The continuous heat exchanger in a helicoidal form sits above the center plate. The sintered heat exchanger sits below the center plate. The still sits above the upper plate.

© IFP

Dry Dilution Refrigerator