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Bruker's GAIA microscope is built for 30 hours near 7 kelvin

Nature's 22 September news says Bruker is preparing GAIA, a liquid-helium scanning transmission electron microscope, to image for 30 hours at about 7 kelvin, roughly 266 degrees Celsius below zero. The 3 destinations are Jülich, then Oak Ridge, then Hamilton. Pages at Hitechub and tl;dr daily news restate this Nature item rather than report it independently.

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What Nature says the instrument does

Nature reports that GAIA is a scanning transmission electron microscope with liquid helium built in, and that imaging on it can run for 30 hours near 7 kelvin. That temperature is about 266 degrees Celsius below zero. The 22 September news item is the account here. The same item names the 3 destinations. Jülich comes first, Oak Ridge second, Hamilton third. No shipment date is added beyond that list.[1]

Where the first instruments are headed

Nature names 3 laboratories. Jülich hosts the Ernst Ruska-Centre. Oak Ridge is the second site. Hamilton is the third. The news item presents those sites as the places the instrument is being prepared for.[1]

What the 30 hours are for

The 30 hours and the temperature near 7 kelvin, about 266 degrees Celsius below zero, are the performance Nature states for GAIA. The 3 laboratories are the destinations in that same news item. No further figure is added. The temperature, the duration and the three destinations all come from the Nature news item. No extra shipment calendar appears here.[1]

References

  1. News sourceNatureBruker is preparing GAIA to image at 7 kelvin for 30 hours↩1↩2↩3