Diamond Anvil Cell Techniques
Abstract
It has often been said that scientific advances are made either in a dramatic and revolutionary way, or, as in the case of the diamond anvil cell (DAC), in a slow and evolutionary manner over a period of several years. For more than 2 decades, commencing in 1958, the DAC developed stepwise from a rather crude qualitative instrument to the sophisticated quantitative research tool it is today, capable of routinely producing sustained static pressures in the multi-megabar range and readily adaptable to numerous scientific measurement techniques because of its optical accessibility, miniature size, and portability.
- Publication:
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Static Compression of Energetic Materials
- Pub Date:
- 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-3-540-68151-9_1
- Bibcode:
- 2008stem.book....1P