Rice University system allows high-magnetic-field
experiments on a tabletop
Rice University scientists have pioneered a tabletop
magnetic pulse generator that does the work of a room-sized machine – and more.
The device dubbed “RAMBO” – short for Rice Advanced Magnet
with Broadband Optics – will allow researchers who visit the university to run
spectroscopy-based experiments on materials in pulsed magnetic fields of up to
30 tesla. (A high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging system is about 10
tesla in strength.)
The Rice lab of physicist Junichiro Kono created RAMBO in
collaboration with Hiroyuki Nojiri at the Institute for Materials Research at
Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. Details appeared online recently in the
American Institute of Physics journal Review of Scientific Instruments.