Read article: Realizing the STEP fusion dream will require cryogenic innovation at scale and at pace
The cryogenics industry has a fundamental role to play in crafting the conceptual design for the UK’s Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production facility
Read article: Bluefors presents new cooling platform KIDE at APS March Meeting 2022
David Gunnarsson outlines the benefit of the Finnish firm's new cryogenic technology
Read article: The ten-billion-dollar gamble: Keeping the JWST cool
A cryogenic system that can operate unattended for years in deep space is a tall order – and a key ingredient in the James Webb Space Telescope’s mission, writes Keith Cooper
Read article: Modelling insights help vacuum end-users save money and fast-track innovation
From applied physicists working on a next-generation radio telescope to specialist designers of industrial laser-welding systems, a suite of powerful in-house modelling tools is helping Edwards to dee...
Read article: Supporting the scale-up of quantum computers
Martin Weides is consultant technical director to Oxford Instruments NanoScience, which builds equipment for applications from quantum science to nanotechnology
Read article: Process innovations benefit battery manufacture
Vacuum specialists are working with production engineers to make lithium-ion battery manufacturing more efficient, as Susan Curtis reports
Read article: Thermal vacuum test systems: gearing up for preflight qualification of small satellites
Rydberg Vacuum Sciences provides a core enabling technology to support the development and prelaunch validation of small-satellite systems
Read article: High-compression turbopumps cut costs, reduce complexity in UHV applications
An in-house experimental study by Pfeiffer Vacuum makes the case for an innovative approach to the pump-down of ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) systems
Read article: Gas flows follow conventional theory even at the nanoscale
Century-old “Knudsen flow” model remains valid for holes just 0.3 nm across
Read article: Balloon-borne telescopes could keep cool with less
New cryogenic dewar is much lighter than existing models and could boost sensitivity of stratospheric observations
