National High-Magnetic Field Laboratory

Facility Description

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) operates high magnetic field facilities at its main facility at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of Florida at Gainesville. Supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the NHMFL at Los Alamos is a user facility for pulsed magnetic field up to 60 tesla and is available to qualified researchers through a proposal review process.

For more information see the National High-Magnetic Field Laboratory Website

Equipment

• 20-tesla superconducting magnet
• non-destructive testing and evaluation instruments
• capacitor-driven pulsed magnets
• pulsed magnets with controlled power sources
• megagauss fields with compressed flux

Associated specialized equipment

• twenty-two 300-MHz oscilloscopes with camera backs
• twenty-four Tektronics DSA602 digitizer channels with 2-giga sample maximum sample rate
• a sweeping image spectrograph
• a 35-mm rotating camera (24 frames with minimum interframe time of 1 microsecond)
• an IMACON 790 Image-Converter Streak and Framing Camera (fastest sweep give 0.25-ns resolution)
• an optical multichannel analyzer with image intensification and 10-ns gating

Facility Access

Most of the NHMFL is unrestricted. The compressed flux firing points are located behind the fence.

Last Update: 17 March 1997

Technical Contact
Laurence Campbell
MST-10
Mail Stop: K765
Phone: 505-667-1482
Fax: 505-665-4311
E-mail Address: ljc@lanl.gov