Simple Imaging for the Diamond Anvil Cell: Applications to Hard-to-reach Places

Authors

Dean Smith, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
David P. Shelton, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Paul B. Ellison, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Ashkan Salamat, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-22-2018

Publication Title

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volume

89

Issue

10

First page number:

1

Last page number:

4

Abstract

The employment of high-pressure gases as a pressure-transmitting medium, sample, or reactant for diamond anvil cell experiments is widespread. As a pressure transmitter, high-pressure gases are crucial to forming quasi-hydrostatic compression atmospheres for samples inside the uniaxially driven cell. We describe an optical design for forming high-resolution images of the gasket and sample chamber of the diamond anvil cell under high gas pressures in a gas loading apparatus. Our design is simple, is of low-cost, and may be easily adapted to suit gas loading apparatus of any design, as well as other common hard-to-reach environments in diamond anvil cell experiments, i.e., those with large stand-off distances, such as cryostats.

Disciplines

Physics

Language

English

Repository Citation

Smith, D., Shelton, D. P., Ellison, P. B., Salamat, A. (2018). Simple Imaging for the Diamond Anvil Cell: Applications to Hard-to-reach Places. Review of Scientific Instruments, 89(10), 1-4.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5048316