PHYS 498LTQ :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Week	Date	Lecture	Reading	Homework
1	01/23/2026	Introduction & Cryogenic I U of I History in Low Temperature Cryogenic Liquids Storage and Transfer	Helium Liquefier Facility Improvements at Physics Milestones in Superconductivity at the University of Illinois An Introduction to Cryogenics, by Ph. Lebrun
2	01/30/2026	Vacuum I Vacuum Fundamentals Pumps	Introduction to Vacuum Technology by Kurt J. Lesker Company Edwards nXDS Scroll Pump Tip Seal Change Video Service:HiPace® 400/700/800-Operating Fluid Reservoir Replacement	HW1 Due: 11:59 PM Feb 15, 2026
3	02/06/2026	Vacuum II Fittings Vacuum Measurements Leak Detection	Flanges and Fittings: KF and CF Guide to Regulators \| Matheson Compressed Gas Cylinder Safety \| Division of Research Safety \| Illinois Demountable Cryogenic Seal Options Introduction to Vacuum Pressure Measurement Knowledge Hub for Leak Detection \| Pfeiffer
4	02/13/2026	Cryogenics II Low Temperature Thermometry	Low Temperature Thermometry by Pobell Cryogenic temperature sensors \| Lakeshore
5	02/20/2026	Cryogenics III Practical Low Temperature Properties	Properties of Solids at Low Temperatures by Ekin Solid Matter at Low Temperatures by Pobell	HW2 Due: 11:59 PM Mar 8, 2026
6	02/27/2026	Refrigeration I J-T Cooler Cryocoolers	Basics of Joule-Thomson Liquefaction and JT Cooling by A. T. A. M. de Waele Joule-Thomson Cooler by Zuyu Zhao 4K Regenerative Cryocoolers by Chao Wang Differences Between Pulse Tube and Gifford-McMahon Cryocoolers - Bluefors
7	03/06/2026	Refrigeration II He-4 and He-3 Refrigeration Dilution Refrigeration	Dilutiion Refrigerator \| CryoTools \| EMP
8	03/13/2026	Cryogenic Controls Temperature Control Heat Exchangers Vibrations Magnetic Shields	Incremental PID Passive Gas-Gap Heat Switches for use in Low-Temperature Cryogenic Systems - IOPscience
9	03/20/2026	Spring Break
10	03/27/2026	Magnets resistive & superconducting	The Current Status and Future Direction of High-Magnetic-Field Science and Technology in the United States National MagLab - MagLab	HW3 Due: 11:59 PM April 12, 2026
11	04/03/2026	Measurements I Electrical and Thermal transport	Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems Noise suppression at the NHMFL \| by Jan Jaroszynski Thermal conductivity measurement from 30 to 750 K: the 3ω method \| Review of Scientific Instruments \| AIP Publishing Nanoscale thermal transport \| by David Cahill et al.
12	04/10/2026	Measurement II Scanning Probe and Spectroscopy	Scanning probe microscopy \| Nature Reviews Methods Primers Make Your Own Scanning Tunneling Microscope Advanced Scanning Electron Microscopy - Dr. Honghui Zhou - MRL Facilities Webinar EELS Presentation
13	04/17/2026	Measurements III Optical Spectroscopy	Optical Spectroscopy of Condensed Matter - MagLab User Summer School Free Fundamentals of Spectroscopy Training Course - Andor - Oxford Instruments
14	04/24/2026	Measurements IV Guest Lecture: Wolfgang Pfaff (UIUC) rf techniques		HW4 Due: 11:59 PM May 7, 2026 References
15	05/01/2026	Refrigeration III Guest Lecture: Xi Lin (PKU) Advanced Refrigerations
	05/08/2026	9am-12pm
	05/11/2026	2pm - 5pm

Final Exam and Presentation Review

Please fill out this to schedule your final. PHYS498LTQ - HW4 and Final Presentation Topic Survey

Format: 5-min Presentation + 1-min Question

Presentation Topic: For your convenience, pelase present the topic you picked for HW4.

Requirements: The topic should be different from your research direction.

*If you would like to pick a topic different from the references, please get email confirmation from Pengjie Wang.

Presentation Review: When attending the presentation, you will need to provide reviews for presentations from no less than 5 colleagues. You can feel free to pick the colleagues. The submission and quality of the review will be counted as 10% of the final grade.

Extensitve Reading Materials

1. Cryogenics for Quantum Applications | QED-C - PDF