🚀 Internship

Cryogenic Sample Environment Industrial Placement

UK Research and Innovation

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12d ago

🚀 Placement Program

Oxford

🤑 £21.6K

The ideal candidate for this Cryogenic Sample Environment Industrial Placement should be enrolled in an undergraduate degree course, possess a minimum average of 2:1 in Physics, have the ability to work in a radiation controlled area, and have good communication and time/task management skills. They should also be willing to learn new skills, have experience with experimental measurements and data analysis, and a strong understanding of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, or cryogenic engineering.
The candidate will join the cryogenics team for 12 months, contributing to day-to-day activities and gaining technical skills in ULT and high magnetic field equipment. They will investigate the dependence of HTS superconductor critical current on temperature and strain, and develop a prototype thermal weak-link assembly for live neutron experiments.

Placement Program

Research & Development, Science

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Oxford

Apply by Oct 29

You will join the cryogenics team within the sample environment group at ISIS Neutron and Muon source. ISIS Neutron and Muon source completes 1200 experiments per year, covering a range of disciplines, on samples brought in from a community of some 2000 external users which are investigated using a smorgasbord of techniques. Approximately 2/3 of the experiments require the application of specialist sample conditions, including ultra-low temperatures (ULT) down to 20 mK and high magnetic fields up to 13 T, for which the cryogenics team is responsible.
In this placement, the successful candidate will work on a component of a collaborative project developing a new high field magnet (up to 25 T) based on a hybrid design of conventional and high-Tc superconductors (HTS). To this end, the successful candidate will be instructed through a development of their theoretical physical understanding of, and practical ability with, cryogenic and high magnetic field equipment. Then, using these skills they will use the ENGIN-X stress rig to cool HTS tapes and measure their properties.

Essential:
Currently enrolled on an undergraduate degree course
Are required or have requested to take an industrial placement year
Able to commence employment in summer 2024
Have the right to live and work in the UK for the duration of the placement
Ability to work in a radiation controlled area
Achieved average of at least 2:1 on currently completed portion of Physics degree course
Good communication, team working, and time/task management skills
The willingness to learn new skills, both technical and non-technical, hands-on and theoretical
Familiarity with making experimental measurements individually or in a small group, analysing data and establishing next steps
Desirable:
Experience with electronic experimental data collection using, for example, oscilloscopes, digital voltmeters and lock-in amplifiers
Use of a scientific programming language (e.g. Python/MatLab/Labview) for data collection or analysis
Strong undergraduate-level understanding of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics or cryogenic engineering

Currently Studying

Undergraduate

Research & Development

Science

Join the cryogenics team for a period of 12 months.
Contribute to the day-to-day activities of the group, gaining a high level of technical skill in a bustling scientific environment.
Develop their theoretical physical understanding of, and practical ability with, ULT and high magnetic field equipment.
Perform an investigation into the dependence of HTS superconductor critical current on temperature and applied strain.
Progress an existing prototype thermal weak-link assembly into a final version which can be deployed to live neutron experiments. This will be used on dilution refrigerators in order to access the temperature range 50 mK – 4 K, instead of the usual range limited to 1 K.

Work type

Full time

Work mode

office

Application deadline

Oct 29, 2023

Location

Oxford

Salary

21600 GBP

Apply by Oct 29