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Development of Pulse Tube Cryocoolers at SITP for Space Application

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Over the last 10 years, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed very high-efficiency pulse tube cryocoolers (PTCs) for aerospace applications. These PTCs can provide cooling power from milliwatt scale to tens of watts over a range of temperatures from 30 to 170 K and can be used to cool a variety of detectors in space applications (such as quantum interference devices, radiometers and ocean color sensors) that must operate at a specific cryogenic temperature to increase the signal-to-noise ratio, sensitivity and optical resolution. This paper reviews the development of single-stage PTCs over a range of weights from 1.6 to 12 kg that offer cooling powers at the cold temperature range from 40 to 170 K. In addition, a two-stage 30 K-PTC is under development.

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This work was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51741610) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai-China (No. 16ZR1441500).

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    Ankuo Zhang, Yinong Wu, Shaoshuai Liu, Huiqin Yu & Baoyu Yang

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Zhang, A., Wu, Y., Liu, S. et al. Development of Pulse Tube Cryocoolers at SITP for Space Application. J Low Temp Phys 191, 228–241 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-1871-x

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