The Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboraory (HLD), a User Facility for Advanced Pulsed-Field Experiments

Since 2007, the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden, HLD) operates as a user facility, providing unique experimental possibilities in pulsed fields. The HLD offers various measurement techniques, such as electrical transport, magnetization, magnetostriction, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance. A particular feature of the laboratory is the next-door free-electron-laser installation used for high-field infrared spectroscopy cyclotron resonance, as well as electron spin resonance (ESR) in pulsed fields. Additionally nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and specific-heat measurement techniques are being developed in pulsed magnetic field. As the only laboratory in Europe, the HLD has reached magnetic fields of about 87 T. This field range is accessible now for experiments in modern materials research. Several 60 T and 70 T magnets are regularly used by in-house and external users as well. A two-coil 100 T prototype and a long-pulse (1000ms) 60 T magnet are ready for their first tests. Some recent scientific results on strongly correlated electron systems, nanostructures, low dimensional spin system, and high-Tc superconductors will be highlighted. Novel experimental techniques such as pulsed NMR in pulsed magnetic fields and technical applications for pulsed magnets will be demonstrated.