The high-field installation at the MASPEC Institute

The high-field installation at the MASPEC Institute is described. The incre ase of energy up to 1 MJ has recently been implemented, thus permitting the generation of fields up to 60 T with a pulse duration of 40 ms. The planne d experiments are magnetocrystalline anisotropy studies of single crystals using magnetization curves, while polycrystalline samples are studied with the singular point detection technique (SPD). The two methods can be used t o study critical held and critical magnetization in first-order magnetizati on processes (FOMP) that are field-induced magnetic transitions. Transport measurements both in semiconductors and superconductors are planned. (C) 20 01 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.