Introduction / 1: |
Properties of Cryoliquids / 2: |
Liquid Air, Liquid Oxygen, Liquid Nitrogen / 2.1: |
Liquid Hydrogen / 2.2: |
Liquid Helium / 2.3: |
Some Properties of the Helium Isotopes / 2.3.1: |
Latent Heat of Evaporation and Vapour Pressure / 2.3.2: |
Specific Heat / 2.3.3: |
Superfluid Film Flow / 2.3.4: |
Problems / 2.3.6: |
Solid Matter at Low Temperatures / 3: |
Insulators / 3.1: |
Metals / 3.1.2: |
Superconducting Metals / 3.1.3: |
Non-Crystalline Solids / 3.1.4: |
Magnetic Specific Heat / 3.1.5: |
The Low-Temperature Specific Heat of Copper and Platinum / 3.1.6: |
Specific Heat of Some Selected Materials / 3.1.7: |
Calorimetry or How to Measure Heat Capacities / 3.1.8: |
Thermal Expansion / 3.2: |
Thermal Expansion of Solids / 3.2.1: |
Dilatometers or How to Measure Thermal Expansions / 3.2.2: |
Thermal Conductivity / 3.3: |
Lattice Conductivity: Phonons / 3.3.1: |
Electronic Thermal Conductivity / 3.3.2: |
Thermal Conductivity at Low Temperatures / 3.3.3: |
Relation Between Thermal and Electrical Conductivity: The Wiedemann-Franz Law / 3.3.4: |
Influence of Impurities on Conductivity / 3.3.6: |
Thermal Conductivities of Copper, Silver and Aluminum at Low Temperatures / 3.3.7: |
How to Measure Thermal Conductivities / 3.3.8: |
Magnetic Susceptibilities / 3.4: |
Magnetic Susceptibilities of Some Selected Materials / 3.4.1: |
How to Measure Susceptibilities and Magnetizations / 3.4.2: |
Thermal Contact and Thermal Isolation / 4: |
Selection of the Material with the Appropriate Cryogenic Thermal Conductivity / 4.1: |
Heat Switches / 4.2: |
Gaseous and Mechanical Heat Switches / 4.2.1: |
Superconducting Heat Switches / 4.2.2: |
Thermal Boundary Resistance / 4.3: |
Boundary Resistance Between Metals / 4.3.1: |
Boundary Resistance Between Liquid Helium and Solids / 4.3.2: |
Helium-4 Cryostats and Closed-Cycle Refrigerators / 5: |
Cool-Down Period / 5.1: |
Running Phase of the Experiment / 5.1.2: |
Helium-4 Cryostats / 5.2: |
Double-Walled Glass Dewars / 5.2.1: |
Metal Dewars / 5.2.2: |
Cryostats for T > 5K / 5.2.3: |
Cryostats with Variable Temperature for 1.3 K ? T ? 4.2 K / 5.2.4: |
Auxiliary Equipment / 5.2.5: |
Closed-Cycle Refrigerators / 5.3: |
Temperature Control / 5.4: |
Helium-3 Cryostats / 6: |
Helium-3 Cryostats with External Pumps / 6.1: |
Helium-3 Cryostats with Internal Adsorption Pumps / 6.2: |
Phase Diagram and Solubility / 7: |
Cooling Power of the Dilution Process / 7.1.2: |
Osmotic Pressure / 7.1.5: |
Mixing Chamber / 7.2: |
Still / 7.3.2: |
Heat Exchangers / 7.3.3: |
Entropies of Liquid and Solid "He / 7.4: |
Pomeranchuk Cooling / 8.3: |
Refrigeration by Adiabatic Demagnetization of a Paramagnetic Salt / 9: |
The Principle of Magnetic Refrigeration / 9.1: |
Thermodynamics of Magnetic Refrigeration / 9.2: |
Non-Interacting Magnetic Dipoles in a Magnetic Field / 9.3: |
Paramagnetic Salts and Magnetic Refrigerators / 9.4: |
Refrigeration by Adiabatic Nuclear Demagnetization / 10: |
Some Equations Relevant for Nuclear Refrigeration / 10.1: |
Differences in Nuclear and Electronic Demagnetization / 10.2: |
Interaction Between Conduction Electrons and Nuclei / 10.3: |
Electron-Phonon Coupling / 10.3.1: |
Nucleus-Electron Coupling / 10.3.2: |
Influence of an External Heat Load and the Optimum Final Magnetic Field / 10.4: |
Heat Leaks / 10.5: |
External Heat Leaks / 10.5.1: |
Eddy Current Heating / 10.5.2: |
Internal, Time-Dependent Heat Leaks / 10.5.3: |
Heating from Radioactivity and High-Energy Particles / 10.5.4: |
Nuclear Refrigerants / 10.6: |
Hyperfine Enhanced Nuclear Refrigeration / 10.7: |
Nuclear Demagnetization Refrigerators / 10.8: |
Temperature Scales and Temperature Fixed Points / 11: |
Thermodynamic Temperature / 11.1: |
The International Temperature Scale ITS-90 / 11.2: |
The New Provisional Low-Temperature Scale PLTS-2000 / 11.3: |
Practical but not Officially Accepted Low-Temperature Fixed Points / 11.4: |
Fixed Points of EPT-76 / 11.4.1: |
The NBS Superconducting Fixed-Point Device / 11.4.2: |
The SRD 1000 Superconducting Fixed-Point Device / 11.4.3: |
Low-Temperature Thermometry / 11.4.4: |
Gas Thermometry / 12.1: |
Helium Vapour Pressure Thermometry / 12.2: |
Helium Melting Pressure Thermometry / 12.3: |
Thermoelectricity / 12.4: |
Resistance Thermometry / 12.5: |
Doped-Germanium and Carbon Resistors / 12.5.1: |
Resistance Bridges / 12.5.3: |
Coulomb Blockade Thermometry / 12.6: |
Noise Thermometry / 12.7: |
Capacitance Thermometry / 12.8: |
Magnetic Thermometry with Electronic Paramagnets / 12.9: |
Magnetic Thermometry with Nuclear Paramagnets / 12.10: |
Non-Resonant, Integral Detection of Nuclear Magnetization / 12.10.1: |
Selective Excitation but Non-Resonant Detection of Nuclear Magnetization / 12.10.2: |
Resonant Excitation and Resonant Detection of Nuclear Magnetization / 12.10.3: |
Magnetic Thermometry via Anisotropy of Gamma Rays / 12.11: |
Summary / 12.12: |
Miscellaneous Cryogenic Devices and Design Aids / 13: |
Cryogenic Pressure Transducers for Thermometry and Manometry / 13.1: |
Capacitive Pressure Transducers / 13.1.1: |
Inductive Pressure Transducers / 13.1.2: |
Cold Valves / 13.2: |
Coaxial Cables and Feedthroughs / 13.3: |
Small Magnets and Magnet Leads / 13.4: |
Small Superconducting Magnets and Magnet Leads / 13.4.1: |
Small Pulsed Normal-Conducting Magnets / 13.4.2: |
Shielding Against Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Fields Inside of Shields / 13.5: |
Normal-Conducting Shields / 13.5.1: |
Superconducting Shields / 13.5.2: |
Magnetic Fields Inside of Shields / 13.5.3: |
Sintered Metal Heat Exchangers / 13.6: |
Low-Temperature Motors and Rotators / 13.7: |
Optical Experiments at Low Temperatures / 13.8: |
Electronic Tunnel-Junction Refrigerators / 13.9: |
Torsional and Translational Oscillators / 13.10: |
Vibrating Reeds / 13.10.1: |
Vibrating Wires / 13.10.2: |
Quartz Tuning Forks / 13.10.3: |
Double-Paddle Oscillators / 13.10.4: |
Composite Torsional Oscillators / 13.10.5: |
Some Comments on Low-Temperature Electronics / 13.11: |
List of Symbols |
Conversion Factors |
Suppliers of Cryogenic Equipment and Materials |
References |
Index |
Introduction / 1: |
Properties of Cryoliquids / 2: |
Liquid Air, Liquid Oxygen, Liquid Nitrogen / 2.1: |