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Abstract

The Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory (GHMFL) was built
to meet the requirements of scientists for experiments implying
the use of high magnetic fields. It is established in Grenoble,
France. It is a French-German laboratory, jointly operated by
the Max Planck Institut Air Festkorperforschung, in Stuttgart
(MPI-FKF) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS). Scientists have access to the magnetic field facility
provided they have written a proposal for experiments in high
magnetic fields and have obtained the approval of the Program
Committee to carry out their research. Since the foundation of
the laboratory, the research effort has been mainly devoted to
solid state physics (i.e. research on metals, superconductors,
semiconductors, magnetism, etc.) which can be performed in a
volume as small as a few cml. Five years ago the laboratory has
undertaken the development of 20 MW magnets. Two of them are
now in operation and deliver fields up to 30 T in a 50 mm room
temperature bore. A 20 MW magnet is composed of two concentric
10 MW magnets. The outer 10 MW part alone achieves a field up
to 10 T in a 376 min diameter bore. It is obvious that this
large diameter is convenient for MHD flow studies under high
magnetic fields. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights
reserved.