Located at MagLab headquarters near Florida State University in Tallahassee, the facility offers users the strongest, quietest, steady and slowly varying magnetic fields in the world, coupled with state-of-the-art instrumentation and experimental expertise.
The facility contains 14 resistive magnet cells connected to a 56 megawatt DC power supply and 15,000 square feet of cooling equipment to remove the heat generated by the magnets. The facility also includes several superconducting magnets operating at millikelvin temperatures. Among these instruments are several record holders, including the 45-tesla hybrid magnet, which offers scientists the strongest continuous magnetic field in the world. The research is supported by magnet plant and cryogenic system operators. Technicians design, build and repair instruments for user research. Scholar-scientists — world-class researchers with their own vibrant research interests — work directly with users to get the best measurements and data.
HOW TO APPLY
Our magnets are open to all scientists — for free — via a competitive process and we accept proposals throughout the year.
- Prepare documentation
A proposal and prior results report are required. - Create a user profile
Returning users simply need to log in. - Submit a request online
Upload files and provide details about the proposed experiment. - Report your results
By year's end, submit information on publications resulting from your experiment.
Please review the MagLab User Policies and Procedures before submitting your proposal and experiment or contact Facility Director Tim Murphy with questions. View User FAQs.
Latest Science Highlight
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Broadening Participation in DC Field Facility by Bridging a Research Infrastructure Gap
26 March 2021
Researchers based at four-year colleges and universities outside of the Research-1 (R1) tier face more obstacles to performing research than their colleagues from R1 universities or national laboratories with robust research infrastructures. Recognizing the need to bridge this infrastructure gap, the MagLab's DC Field Facility expanded access by adding two low-field magnet systems. These "on-ramp" systems facilitate critical access to materials research instrumentation by faculty and students from non-R1 institutions.
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Featured Publications
Broadening Participation in DC Field Facility by Bridging a Research Infrastructure Gap, C. Dhital, et al., Physical Review B, 102, 224408 (2020) See Science Highlight or Read online
Tunable Weyl Fermions in Chiral Tellurene in High Magnetic Fields, G. Qiu, Nature Nanotechnology, 15, 585–591 (2020) See Science Highlight or Read online
Tunable Symmetry Breaking and Helical Edge Transport in a Graphene Quantum Spin Hall State, A.F. Young, et al., Nature, 505, 528–532 (2014) See Science Highlight or Read online
Hofstadter's butterfly and the fractal quantum Hall effect in moiré superlattices, C. R. Dean, et al., Nature, 497, 598-602 (2013) See Science Highlight or Read online
Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van der Waals Heterostructure, B. Hunt, et al., Science, 340 no. 6139 pp. 1427-1430 (2013) See Science Highlight or Read online
For more information
Contact DC Field Facility Director Tim Murphy or Fellow users who are experts on the use of DC Field Facility.