Crystal defects in magnesium and magnesium-based alloys like AZ31 are of major interest for the understanding of their macroscopic properties. Coincident Doppler broadening spectroscopy with positrons (CDBS) is a well-established technique to investigate lattice defects and their chemical surrounding in solids. However, Mg and its alloys are demanding materials for positron spectroscopy, since the trapping rate in Mg is low and the trapping sites are shallow. In order to increase the trapping rate, the CDBS-facility at the high intense positron beam NEPOMUC is currently redesigned and improved with a cryostat for sample cooling. Furthermore, the recently installed remoderator provides a beam energy between 20 and 200 eV. On the contrary to the previous beam energy of 1 keV, the beam is therefore no longer non-adiabatically released from themagnetic field at the grounded field termination. Hence it is necessary to construct an insulated field termination where voltages up to 5 kV can be applied. (C) 2008 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.