Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Toroidal diamond anvil cell for detailed measurements under extreme static pressures

  • Agnès Dewaele,
  • Paul Loubeyre,
  • Florent Occelli,
  • Olivier Marie,
  • Mohamed Mezouar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05294-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Extreme static pressures exceeding a million atmospheres exist in a variety of natural environments, but obtaining such pressures in a laboratory is still a challenge. Here, the authors develop a toroidal diamond anvil design that allows for the generation of 600 GPa (6 million atmospheres) in routinely used diamond anvil cells.