Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory

The Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf focuses on modern materials research at high magnetic fields. It serves as a research facility for in-house as well as for user projects and provides research opportunities for pulsed magnetic fields up to 90 teslas for routine operation. A record field close to 95.6 T has been reached in 2011. The HLD aims at reaching magnetic fields up to the feasibility limit of about 100 teslas.HistoryIn 1999, a proposal was submitted to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and the Saxon Ministry of Science and Art requesting the establishment of the High Magnetic Field Laboratory. After evaluation by the German Council of Science and Humanities basic funding was recommended and in 2003 the construction of the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory started on the site of the HZDR. Investment costs were about € 24.5 million and were shared equally by the federal government and the Free State of Saxony. In December 2004, the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory headed by Prof. Dr. Joachim Wosnitza was founded.User ProgramThe HLD is accepting proposals for magnet time in pulsed magnetic fields and hosted users since the beginning of 2007. The proposals are administrated and evaluated in the frame of the EMFL user program.ResearchAs the world's only laboratory, the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory provides access to a magnet with a magnetic flux density of more than 95 teslas with a pulse duration of 11 milliseconds in a diameter of 16 millimeters. Similarly strong magnetic fields are generated only at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, USA. In addition, the HLD operates several 70 tesla coils with pulse durations of 150 milliseconds.