High Frequency Cryogenics at Leeds and Manchester (Hi-CaLM) Facility

Start date: 1 September 2025
End date: 31 August 2028
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Value: £2,8181,398
Partners and collaborators: University of Manchester
Primary investigator: Professor John Cunningham
Co-investigators: Professor Giles Davies FREng, Professor Edmund Linfield, Dr Joshua Freeman, Dr Matthew Vaughan, Timothy Moorsom
Co-investigators (additional Faculties): Alice Bowen, Artem Mishchenko, Jessica Boland, Richard Curry, Vladimir Falko

Our aim is to establish a regionally distributed, accessible, dilution refrigerator facility across the Universities of Manchester and Leeds with complementary high-frequency capabilities. Manchester will focus on megahertz-to-gigahertz frequencies, and Leeds on the gigahertz-to-terahertz range. Each of these requires a different experimental configuration and so cannot be achieved in a single system. The combined facility will strongly enhance the UK capacity for millikelvin high frequency studies of electronic, photonic and quantum materials, both supporting and leading to collaborations with UK academic and industrial users