Reliable cryocooling is a crucial enabling technology for many emerging applications in research, but also for the first industrial sectors. A broad wave of emerging applications concerns the field of "quantum technologies" and therefore requires new "cryogenic systems" that are suitable for a much larger market. Such new, dry cooling systems must manage without a permanent supply of increasingly expensive helium, be simpler in terms of equipment and as cheap as possible than the systems known so far for the temperature ranges below 4K and for quantum technologies below 1K, such as helium mixing coolers.
In this context, based on the expected broad demand for such coolers, especially through quantum technologies, we see a good opportunity to plan and develop such a new "mK cooler" in a consortium for some fields of application, such as new sensor technology and, of course, for the semiconductor industry, in which the development of quantum computer chips is already beginning.