About
Barber-Nichols was founded in 1966 by Bob Barber and Ken Nichols as a turbomachinery engineering company in Arvada, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The company manufactures vacuum jacketed extended shaft pumps, circulators, blowers, and compressors used in cryogenic systems. Since 1976, when Barber-Nichols designed and built its first cryogenic pump, these custom-engineered products have served a broad range of demanding and sensitive applications. Barber-Nichols cryogenic pumps are used in physics research, including the CERN ATLAS detector, where they pump liquid helium coolant through superconducting magnetic coils. The company provides cryogenic pumping solutions for quantum computing systems that require liquid nitrogen and liquid helium circulation at ultra-low temperatures. It serves quantum computing manufacturers, physics research facilities, and cryogenic system providers that need specialized pumps for dilution refrigerators and quantum processor cooling infrastructure.
Quantum Specifications
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