A New Experimental Capability for Nuclear Resonant Scattering under Simultaneous High Pressure and High Temperature at 3-ID, APS.

A laser-heated diamond anvil cell system has been designed and implemented for nuclear resonant scattering at beamline 3-ID of the Advance Photon Source. A stable sample temperature up to 1700K was maintained with a variation of ±100K for more than 10 hours. This gives us a unique capability to study magnetic, elastic, thermodynamic, and vibrational properties of materials using nuclear resonant scattering under simultaneous high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. The details of the system design will be presented and some experimental applications will be discussed in this paper. © 2007 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]