Lab Equipment

Different types of Diamond Anvil Cells can be used for variety of teqchniques:

• Low radial opening DACs for spectroscopy
  
  
• High radial opening (90/120 degrees) DACs for single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction studies at synchrotron facilities
  
  
• Non-magnetic DACs for high pressure NMR experiments
  
  
• Side angular opening DACs for X-ray spectroscopy studies at synchrotron facilities
  
  
• and many others...

Whole cell heater:

• Enables studies in DACs at pressures above 130 GPa and temperatures above 1200 K
  
• Maintains constant pressure (within 1 GPa at megabar pressure range) and temperature (within 5 K at 1000 K) for
  several hours
  
• Allows accurately temperature measurments with an external thermocouple in a whole temperature range
  
• The setup does not have measurable temperature gradient within the pressure chamber
  
• Detailed information:
  
  • Whole-cell heater for the diamond anvil cell
    
  • Internal and external electrical heating in DACs
    

• Equipped with a pair of SPI RedPower Modulated Fiber Lasers
• Allows heating of a sample in CW or Pulsed modes
• The minimum size of the laser beam ~ 5 μm
• Optical magnification 80 - 320 times
• Coupled with an IsoPlane SCT 320 spectrometer and a 1024x256 PI-MAX 4 camera (Princeton Instruments, Inc.) for temperature measurements
• Compatible with synchrotron facilities beamlines
  
  Detailed information:
  • Laser heating setup for diamond anvil cells for in situ synchrotron and in house high and ultra-high pressure studies
  • Comparative study of the influence of pulsed and continuous wave laser heating on the mobilization of carbon and its chemical reaction with iron in a diamond anvil cells
  • Portable double-sided pulsed laser heating system for time-resolved geoscience and materials science applications
  • Portable double-sided laser-heating system for Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction experiments at synchrotron facilities with diamond anvil cells
  • Portable laser heating system for diamond anvil cells.

Micro Support Co. Ltd.

Applications:

• Loading and alignment of secondary anvils for double-stage dsDACs
  
• Sample loading for multimegabar studies in DAC
• High-resolution optical imaging of samples inside DAC

Application: synthesis of new materials

• Model: MavoPress LPRU 1200 – 555/50 (Max Voggenreiter GmbH)
• Maximum pressure ~ 12 GPa
• Sample volume is up to ~10 mm³

• 7.04 T superconducting magnet (Oxford)
  
• 300 MHz Redstone solid-state NMR spectrometer (Tecmag Inc.) with 250 W (broadband)  and 1 kW (X-Channel) RF pulse amplifier
  
• 1.5 GHz spectrum analyser & 300 MHz digital Oscilloscope
  
• Home built probes for room temperature experiments (all DAC types) and low temperature (4 Kelvin) experiments (BX90 DACs )
  
• Suited for low gamma nuclei (e.g. ¹⁴N, ²⁷Al, ¹⁷O, ¹¹B, ²D … )
  

• 1.4 Tesla sweepable ESR electromagnet
  
• 300 MHz Redstone solid-state NMR spectrometer (Tecmag Inc.) with 100 W RF pulse amplifier
  
• 1.5 GHz spectrum analyser & 300 MHz digital Oscilloscope
  
• Home built probes for room temperature experiments (BX90) and low temperature (4 Kelvin) experiments (Four Post DAC )
  
• NQR and zero field NMR possible
  
• The setup is ideal for high pressure ¹H-NMR
  

Fully portable high pressure NMR system suitable for in house and on-site experimentation at large scale facilities:

• 1030 mT Halbach array permanent magnet
• 300 MHz Redstone solid-state NMR spectrometer (Tecmag Inc.) with 250 W (broadband)  and 1 kW (X-Channel)  RF pulse amplifier
• 1.5 GHz spectrum analyser & 300 MHz digital Oscilloscope
• Suited for high temperature/high pressure ¹H-NMR in BX90 cells

Detailed information:
Table-top nuclear magnetic resonance system for high-pressure studies with in situ laser heating

The scXRD/dsLH setup was developed for the P02.2 Extreme Conditions Beamline at PETRAIII (DESY, Hamburg) and became available for general users in 2017.

• Enables the collection of reliable single crystal XRD data at simultaneous high pressures and high temperatures

Detailed information: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5108881

The FIB instrument, Scios DualBeam system, FEI Deutschland GmbH (located at NanoLab, DESY, Hamburg)

Applications:

• Manufacturing of secondary anvils for dsDACs operating at multimegabar pressures
  
• Manufacturing of diamond anvils and gaskets for specific experiments
  
• Ex-situ studies of recovered samples
  
• Sample preparation for transmission electron microscopy
• Advanced sample preparation for DAC studies (XRD and NMR measurements, Brillouin spectroscopy)
• Analytical SEM (EDX) studies

Located at DESY, Hamburg

• The loading pressure ~ 1.5 kbar
• Specially designed for H₂ loading of DACs
• Compatible with N₂ and different nobel gases (commonly He, Ne, Ar )