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High Pressure and High Temperature Techniques

Pressure generation in a 6-8-2 type multi-anvil system: a performance test for third-stage anvils with various diamonds

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Pages 237-244 | Received 24 May 2008, Published online: 07 Oct 2008
 

Abstract

We developed a 6-8-2 cell for multi-anvil apparatus, where a pair of diamond rods are used as a pressure intensifier. We tested single crystal diamond (SCD), conventional sintered diamond (SD), and nano-polycrystalline diamond (NPD) as the third-stage anvils for the 6-8-2 system. In situ X-ray diffraction experiments were conducted to test the performance of the present cell, and pressure generation of ∼ 90 GPa was confirmed at a press load of 700 tons at room temperature, regardless of the difference in anvil material. Upon the heating of the sample, however, the pressure substantially dropped with increasing temperature>800 K when SCD and SD were used as third-stage anvils, and ultimately decreased to 20–30 GPa at 1400 K due to significant plastic deformation of the anvils. In contrast, pressures of 80–90 GPa were maintained at temperatures up to ∼ 1250 K when the NPD anvils were used. The pressure decreased significantly at still higher temperatures, but remained higher (∼ 55 GPa, at 1400 K) than those observed by using SCD and SD anvils. The plastic deformation of the NPD anvils was obviously smaller than that of the other anvils, suggesting that NPD is the most suitable anvil material for the 6-8-2 system.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Yuji Higo, Akihiro Yamada, Toru Inoue, Ikumi Ohnishi and Ken-ichi Funakoshi for their technical assistance, comments and discussion. We also thank Takeo Ohnishi for supplying the NPD rods used in the present study. In situ X-ray experiments were carried out at SPring-8 (Proposal No. 2007A1756), supported by Grant-in-Aid for Creative Scientific Research from the Japanese Government.

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