High temperature diamond anvil cell with the laser heating

Abstract

Focusing laser radiation in the center of a diamond anvil cell (DAC) allows investigations up to P?100 GPa with the pulsed' and sustained heating to 5000 K^2,3. The use of laser radiation permits the exclusion of a heater if the sample itself strongly absorbs the radiation. Many materials are transparent for 1.06 μm YAG-laser radiation usually used for the heating. Therefore it is necessary to mix absorbing radiation powders, for example, graphite, platinum²³. The use of the powerful C0₂-laser for the heating considerably extends the scope of the materials under investigation, as the wavelength radiation Λ= 10 μm is in the range of the strong lattice absorption (absorption coefficient～ 10³-10⁴ cm-^l) of many oxides, nitrides and so on.