Abstract
The development of satellite communications in the 1950s led to the first commercial need for small cryogenic refrigerators to provide 4 K cooling for ground-based parametric amplifiers. The use of these refrigerators has increased significantly since that time with the evolution of several additional cryogenic applications. The most successful of these new applications are:
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Military infrared surveillance and target acquisition systems
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Vacuum cryopumps
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Superconducting magnets for medical and electrical power systems
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Superconducting electronic devices
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Ackermann, R.A. (1997). Regenerative Cryogenic Refrigerators. In: Cryogenic Regenerative Heat Exchangers. The International Cryogenics Monograph Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9891-3_6
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