Spun off from the low-temperature lab at Aalto University in Finland, Bluefors is a firm that specializes in cryogen-free, dilution refrigerator measurement systems. Based in Helsinki, the company presented its new KIDE cooling platform at the 2022 March meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago.

In this video filmed at the meeting, Bluefors’ chief technology officer David Gunnarsson outlines the benefits to users of the KIDE cryogenic system, which the company developed in response to the needs of researchers working in quantum computing. Based on the Finnish word for “snowflake”, KIDE is so named because the cooling platform is hexagonal in shape. With a prototype being developed this year, Bluefors envisages a product launch in 2023.