Here at the world's largest and highest-powered magnet lab, we are home to some of the most spectacular science spots on the planet. Now we are sharing them with you to help transform your next virtual staff meeting, happy hour, game night or holiday gathering into your own science Shangri-La.
Explore the animated and still images below. Save your favorites to your device and add to Zoom as a virtual background. While we can't promise they will make you sound any smarter, they may help amaze your fellow Zoom participants with the wonders of science!
Animated Backgrounds
Bitter Disk Shine
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
These beautiful Bitter disks are what make up our massive resistive magnets. Let them sparkle and shine in the background of your next meeting to celebrate the beauty of science and engineering.
Seeing Inside
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
What would electricity and magnetism look like if you could see them? See inside one of the MagLab’s newest world-record magnet systems – the 41- tesla x Tesla, or T, is a unit of magnetic field strength; a strong refrigerator magnet is .01 tesla, and a typical MRI machine is 1.5 to 3 tesla. The MagLab's strongest persistent magnet has a field of 45 teslas. resistive magnet – as electrons flow, generating a magnetic field. (Watch a 3-minute animated video of this magnet on YouTube.)
Stars Over the MagLab
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
The MagLab's headquarters building is majestic under a beautiful Tallahassee night sky.
Static Backgrounds
Want to work in the fringe fields of one of the world's strongest magnets? Get up close and personal with one of these virtual backgrounds of actual magnet research spaces at the MagLab.
900 MHz Ultra Wide Bore
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
This unique magnet is the world’s strongest MRI machine and is also used for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
The 21-Tesla ICR
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
The world-record 21-tesla ion cyclotron resonance magnet provides complex chemical analysis.
HiPER Spectrometer
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
This high-powered spectrometer enables continuous wave and pulsed electron magnetic resonance measurements.
High B/T Magnet
Credit: Dave Barfield
This 8-tesla magnet reaches some of the coldest manmade temperatures on Earth — 0.04 microkelvin, just a fraction above absolute zero.
Bitter Disk Art
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
This unique art hangs in the lobby and is crafted from the disks that make up our powerful magnets.
Equation Chalkboard
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
Brilliant minds are in every corner of the MagLab. Here is the proof.
Control Room Monitors
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
Control room staff keep a close watch over the operation of our resistive and hybrid magnets, cryogenics and other complex systems that keep our magnets running. Learn more about how "Team Tesla" keeps these magnets operating at peak performance.
Overpressure Furnace
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
This furnace at the lab's Applied Superconductivity Center helps the MagLab design superconducting coils of the future.
Winding High Bay
Credit: Larry Gordon
This is where experts from the lab's Magnet Science & Technology group make some of the world's largest and highest-powered superconducting magnets, including massive cable-in-conduit coils that are wound on a giant spool.
Lab Space
Credit: Stephen Bilenky
In addition to our many magnets for visiting scientists, the lab includes multiple spaces for staff scientists to experiment, including this one in the building's C wing shared by several physicists.
Colorful Conductor
Credit: Peter Lee
This close up of Bi-2122 showcases the power of superconductivity, the flow of electrons without heat. See more stunning superconducting images.
Rat Brain
Credit: Don Smith, National MagLab
This rat brain image was made using a special technique on our 21-tesla ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer. For more beautiful research results, visit Artsy-Chartsy.
