In this video filmed at the 2023 March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Las Vegas, Matt Martin, managing director of Oxford Instruments Nanoscience, introduces a new transport measurement system, which has been produced to allow complete integration with Lake Shore products. It uses open-source technologies, such as QCoDeS and Jupyter Notebooks, so that it can be easily tailored to meet the needs of the user and can be flexibly integrated with all third-party electronics.
As Martin explains, the user ends up with a complete data set, which they can then use for the research papers that they want to write. Using Grafana and the Jupyter Notebook tools, graphs can be created and dropped directly into an article.
Also featured in the video is Abi Graham, a measurement scientist from the company, who talks about the firm’s cryostat control software, which lets users monitor the status of their fridge and also set and change parameters such as field and temperature. This software is linked to the Proteox control unit, with the measurement server hosting a browser-based Jupyter Notebook to give full remote access.
Martin then describes how the integration with Lake Shore products was achieved. He explains that with OI:DECS and an open-framework environment, the company is attempting to create a community using the framework of Oxford Instruments software and databasing.
