Vilnius High Magnetic Field Centre facilities

Abstract

A brief overview of the high-field facilities at the Vilnius High Magnetic Field Centre (VMC) is presented in this paper. We highlight the main activity of the VMC, which lies in studying the effects of pulsed magnetic and electrical fields on material properties, and give a short description of the pulsed magnets. A new method for generating nanosecond duration strong electric field pulse in conjunction with a magnetic field pulse is presented. The possibility of modulating electric field pulses by pulsed magnetic fields is discussed. Here, we also report on our investigations of the colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) effect in thin polycrystalline La-Sr-MnO films, which are of special interest for the design of new B-scalar magnetic field sensors used for magnetic field distribution measurements during railgun operation and other applications.