The Paris-Edinburgh neutron pressure cell -- The world's smallest large volume cell
The Paris-Edinburgh neutron pressure cell -- The world's smallest large volume cell
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 11th August 2003
- Speaker: Dr John Loveday (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Neutron scattering is a uniquely powerful technique for locating hydrogen and other low-Z atoms within solids, for the measurement of atomic thermal motion and disorder, for the determination of magnetic ordering and for studies of collective excitations. Until 1990 these advantages were not available for studies at high-pressure because neutron pressure cells were not able to achieve pressures greater than ~3 GPa. In my talk I will describe the development of a novel pressure cell -- The Paris-Edinburgh cell -- which has now increased the pressure range by a full order of magnitude to 30 GPa. I will illustrate the new information that this has provided with studies carried out using the cell.
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