Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory

The Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf focuses on modern materials research at high magnetic fields. It serves as a research facility for in-house as well as for user projects and provides research opportunities for pulsed magnetic fields up to 90 teslas for routine operation. A record field close to 95.6 T has been reached in 2011. The HLD aims at reaching magnetic fields up to the feasibility limit of about 100 teslas.

In 1999, a proposal was submitted to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Saxon Ministry of Science and Art requesting the establishment of the High Magnetic Field Laboratory. After evaluation by the German Council of Science and Humanities basic funding was recommended and in 2003 the construction of the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory started on the site of the HZDR. Investment costs were about € 24.5 million and were shared equally by the federal government and the Free State of Saxony. In December 2004, the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory headed by Prof. Dr. Joachim Wosnitza was founded.

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