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Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province in the People‘s Republic of China, was the first urban center worldwide to get hit hard by the Corona pandemic. Now, months later, the situation on site is slowly getting back to normal. On April 8, 2020, the Wuhan lockdown officially ended. Meanwhile, [...]
Photo (©) HZDR André Wirsig Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt took the reigns as scientific director of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) on April 1, 2020. He came from the Forschungszentrum Jülich, where he was a member of the Executive Board and has been responsible since November 2007 for the research [...]
Together with partners the three European Magnetic Field Laboratories, joined in EMFL, have been awarded two EU Horizon 2020 grants: one to develop all-superconducting user magnets beyond 40 Tesla (2.9 M€), and one to expand EMFL’s industrial and user community (4.9 M€). With these grants, EMFL will strengthen its [...]
HFML-FELIX has been awarded 15.1 million euros for the development of advanced instrumentation and new experimental techniques. The grant is part of The National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Facilities of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) which enables the building or renovation of research facilities with international allure. HFML-FELIX represents [...]
Km Rubi, HFML Nijmegen. Photo (©): Km Rubi In order to extend the field range (0 - 30 T) of the data measured at HFML-Nijmegen, I performed magnetotransport measurements on an ionic-liquid gated two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at complex oxides interface in pulsed magnetic fields up to 60 T [...]
Tino Gottschall, HLD Dresden. Photo (©): HZDR/Bernd Schröder The last two month of 2019 saw one of the first scientific secondments funded by the newly implemented exchange program of the EMFL. PhD student Adrià Gràcia-Condal from the University of Barcelona came to visit the HLD at the Helmholtz-Zentrum DresdenRossendorf [...]
Due to the increasing rate of COVID-19 (Corona virus) infections world-wide and the travel restrictions introduced by many countries, the European Magnetic Field Laboratory decided to stop its operational activities until further notice. Users that have been scheduled and will be affected by this decision will be rescheduled to [...]
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe (IRFU) located in Paris-Saclay has joined EMFL, starting December 1st, 2019. The membership is a logical next step in the collaboration of CEA-IRFU and EMFL. Both have already applied together [...]
Directly after the opening of the new combined building the first HFML-FELIX User Meeting took place. Local research groups, external users and other interested scientists exchanged experiences and the latest scientific news. The aim was to bring the high field and free electron laser communities together and inform both [...]
The combined building of the HFML and the FELIX Laboratory has been officially opened on July 8, 2019. Ingrid van Engelshoven, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, officiated the opening. From left to right: Prof. Han van Krieken (Rector, RU), Dr. Britta Redlich (Director FELIX Laboratory), Minister Ingrid van [...]