Custom and Speciality Systems

Our established depth of technical expertise and hands-on engineering experience in the design and manufacture of superconducting magnets and cryogenic systems, enables us to create tailored solutions for customers’ specific application and experimental needs.

Our world-leading capabilities are successfully applied in custom-engineered special systems including the following applications:

Beamlines Ultra-High Fields Special Lab Systems Dark Matter

Beamlines

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Beamline Sample Environments for Neutron Scattering, X-ray Scattering, and Muon Spin Resonance

• Advanced coil geometry, split-pair superconducting magnet systems with helium-recondensing, Cryofree®, or conventionally helium-cooled cryostats
• Active shielding available on high field, wide angle split pair systems to reduce magnetic footprint
• Asymmetric and dual mode (selectable symmetric/asymmetric) magnet design for inclusion of polarised neutron experiments
• Integrated variable temperature insert (VTI), ³He refrigerator, or dilution refrigerator
• VTI systems can be extended to lower temperatures by a 'secondary insert' HelioxVT ³He refrigerator or KelvinoxJT dilution refrigerator
• VTI systems can have extended upper temperatures to 800 Kelvin

Ultra-High Fields

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"Outsert" Magnets for Ultra-High Field

High field and wide magnet bore combinations (with high stored energy up to several MJ), for superconducting magnets utilising high temperature superconductor (HTS) insert coils, for example:

• 15 Tesla, 250 mm magnet bore
• 19 Tesla, 150 mm magnet bore

Special Lab Systems

Unique Laboratory Research Systems

• The highest field, commercially available, compact magnet systems up to 20 T at 4.2 K
• Systems requiring large experimental space – for example, 18 T, 150 mm magnet bore to enable a rotatable SPM head

Dark Matter Research

High field and wide magnet bore combinations, as driven by the experimental strategy, where the field volume product (B2V) is a key driver of detector cavity Q factor.

Our Unique Experience

Such "custom-engineered specials" build on our years of technology development, coupled with the real-world manufacturing experience gained from a vast back-catalogue of these specially-designed systems.

We have been pioneers in the field since 1959. Much as we are proud of this heritage, we do not solely rely upon our past achievements. We bring our wealth of experience to every new opportunity and challenge, to provide our customers with their own world-leading capabilities – whether in superconducting magnets, ultra-low temperatures, cryogenics, or combinations of all three. Thousands of installed Oxford systems in leading research laboratories around the world testify to the success and reliability of our technologies and solutions.

By working with our custom system specialists, alongside our leading technologists and engineers, customers are able to develop their system requirements into a realisable specification and design. Our team will work closely with you to balance your system requirements and budget.

The above illustrates just a small cross-section of our typical applications. Please contact us to discuss your project and requirements with us.