Simple imaging for the diamond anvil cell: Applications to hard-to-reach places

Dean Smith; David P Shelton; Paul B Ellison; Ashkan Salamat

doi:10.1063/1.5048316

Simple imaging for the diamond anvil cell: Applications to hard-to-reach places

Rev Sci Instrum. 2018 Oct;89(10):103902. doi: 10.1063/1.5048316.

Authors

Dean Smith¹, David P Shelton², Paul B Ellison², Ashkan Salamat¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy and HiPSEC, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154, USA.
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154, USA.

PMID: 30399781
DOI: 10.1063/1.5048316

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.