Most of the records we have established since the lab opened have been short-lived, as we are constantly surpassing them. As you can see in the table below, where some of our current records are featured, there's a very good reason why hundreds of researchers a year travel to our unique lab to use these awesome tools. For technical details on these records, click on the blue links in the table.
First, a few quick definitions:
- Dalton: Unit of molecular mass. A hydrogen atom weighs about 1 Dalton (Da)
- Kelvin: A temperature scale used by scientists. Zero Kelvin (0 K) is known as absolute zero, and is the equivalent of -273 degrees Celsius and -460 degrees Fahrenheit. Absolute zero is as cold as cold can get.
- Tesla: Measure of magnetic field strength. The Earth's magnetic field is one twenty thousandth (.00005) of a tesla (T).
| Highest field for a continuous field magnet (test magnet) | 45.5 tesla |
| Highest field for a continuous field magnet (user magnet) | 45 tesla |
| Highest field for a superconducting magnet | 32 tesla |
| Highest field for a resistive magnet | 41.4 teslas |
| Highest field for a controlled waveform (100-ms) magnet | 100.75 tesla |
| Highest field for a long-pulse (100-ms) magnet | 60 tesla |
| Highest field for a split magnet | 25 tesla |
| Highest central field for a superconducting coil in a background magnet | 42.5 tesla |
| Highest field superconducting magnet for FT-ICR mass spectrometry | 21 tesla |
| Highest field neutron scattering magnet (built by MagLab for Helmoltz Centre Berlin) | 26 tesla |
| Highest field magnet for nuclear magnetic resonance | 36 tesla Series Connected Hybrid magnet |
| Smallest resolved mass difference between two molecules (achieved with our 9.4 tesla FT-ICR instrument) | 0.000452 Dalton |
| Highest observed nuclear resonance Larmor frequency | 1.9 GHz Proton NMR at 44.7 tesla |
| Highest frequency spectrometer for pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) | 336 GHz / 12 tesla |
| Highest field for an MRI study of a living animal | 21.1 tesla (900 MHz) |
| Lowest temperature for studies of electron systems in an applied field B, achieved at the lab's High B/T Facility | 0.004 Kelvin |
| Highest trapped magnetic field | 17.6 teslas |