Making Resistive Magnets

By Kristen Coyne

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is home to dozens of powerful magnets. Each year the world-record instruments attract hundreds of scientists from as far off as Japan, Australia and Europe. Scientists come from across the globe to put their experiments inside these magnets and see what happens when materials are subjected to high fields.

But the MagLab doesn't just conduct research with magnets. We also make magnets, both for our own lab and for other labs around the world.

A resistive magnet coil.

We make all kinds of magnets, including superconducting, hybrid and pulsed magnets. We're world leaders in creating all these magnets.

But in this article, we'll focus on how we make resistive magnets, a type of electromagnet, which use conventional electricity to generate high magnetic fields. Experts in our Magnet Science and Technology division are renowned for their ability to design and construct these tools. They have created 13 different magnet designs and have built dozens of these magnets over the years, requiring the construction of some 160 magnet coils.

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