Abstract
The very small size and thermal dissipation of superconducting sensors imposes an extremely small load on the supporting refrigeration system. Present day refrigerators generally are grossly mismatched to such loads. For this reason we have considered the possibility of scaling down a miniature refrigerator to microminiature size. A set of scaling laws is derived. These have been applied to the design of a N2 — H2 refrigerator which might use a NbN sensor. Such microminiature refrigerators appear to offer a number of attractive, design and manufacturing advantages.
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Little, W.A. (1996). Scaling of Miniature Cryocoolers to Microminiature Size. In: Cabrera, B., Gutfreund, H., Kresin, V. (eds) From High-Temperature Superconductivity to Microminiature Refrigeration. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0411-1_14
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