At its 2011 meeting, organized in Spain last September, the International Magnetic Measurement Workshop (IMMW) celebrated its 30th birthday. The retrospective presented by Louis Walckiers from CERN took a look back at the history of the great particle accelerators...
You could call it “Hall’s theorem”: high-accuracy, 3-axis Hall effect measurement requires high-quality, 3-axis calibration. For Metrolab, this has led to several man-years of software development, megabytes of traceable measurements and a few challenging...
The next large-scale facility in preparation at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is an X-ray-free electron laser, named the SwissFEL. This national project aims to provide one of the world’s most brilliant light beams by the time it will go into operation in 2016....
Metrolab’s magnetic field cameras (MFC) are now benchmark solutions for the high-precision mapping of intense magnetic fields and, in being perfected over the years, have gained the trust of all MRI manufacturers worldwide. We look back on a technological...
Regular readers of this newsletter know that Metrolab is investing heavily in a new generation of instruments, in particular the THM1176 and PT2026. But what’s new? Many of the changes are driven by industry trends: faster and denser electronic components,...