Next-generation diamond cell and applications to single-crystal neutron diffraction

Bianca Haberl; Sachith Dissanayake; Yan Wu; Dean A.A. Myles; Antonio M. Dos Santos; Mark Loguillo; Gerald M. Rucker; Douglas P. Armitage; Malcolm Cochran; Katie M. Andrews; Christina Hoffmann; Huibo Cao; Masaaki Matsuda; Flora Meilleur; Feng Ye; Jamie J. Molaison; Reinhard Boehler

doi:10.1063/1.5031454

Next-generation diamond cell and applications to single-crystal neutron diffraction

Bianca Haberl, Sachith Dissanayake, Yan Wu, Dean A.A. Myles, Antonio M. Dos Santos, Mark Loguillo, Gerald M. Rucker, Douglas P. Armitage, Malcolm Cochran, Katie M. Andrews, Christina Hoffmann, Huibo Cao, Masaaki Matsuda, Flora Meilleur, Feng Ye, Jamie J. Molaison, Reinhard Boehler

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Abstract

A diamond cell optimized for single-crystal neutron diffraction is described. It is adapted for work at several of the single-crystal diffractometers of the Spallation Neutron Source and the High Flux Isotope Reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). A simple spring design improves portability across the facilities and affords load maintenance from offline pressurization and during temperature cycling. Compared to earlier prototypes, pressure stability of polycrystalline diamond (Versimax®) has been increased through double-conical designs and ease of use has been improved through changes to seat and piston setups. These anvils allow ∼30%-40% taller samples than possible with comparable single-crystal anvils. Hydrostaticity and the important absence of shear pressure gradients have been established with the use of glycerin as a pressure medium. Large single-crystal synthetic diamonds have also been used for the first time with such a clamp-diamond anvil cell for pressures close to 20 GPa. The cell is made from a copper beryllium alloy and sized to fit into ORNL's magnets for future ultra-low temperature and high-field studies. We show examples from the Spallation Neutron Source's SNAP and CORELLI beamlines and the High Flux Isotope Reactor's HB-3A and IMAGINE beamlines.

Original language	English
Article number	092902
Journal	Review of Scientific Instruments
Volume	89
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5031454
State	Published - Sep 1 2018

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The authors gratefully acknowledge Young Sun (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) for the hexaferrite crystals. Equally, the authors gratefully acknowledge Luke L. Daemen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) for the preparation of the KDP crystal. This work was conducted at the SNAP and CORELLI beamlines of the Spallation Neutron Source and the HB3A and IMAGINE beamlines of the High Flux Isotope Reactor, both DoE Office of Science User Facilities operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This study was supported in part by the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Program on Neutron Scattering. Work by R.B. was supported by the Energy Frontier Research in Extreme Environments (EFree) Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), under Award No. DE-SC0001057.

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Haberl, B., Dissanayake, S., Wu, Y., Myles, D. A. A., Dos Santos, A. M., Loguillo, M., Rucker, G. M., Armitage, D. P., Cochran, M., Andrews, K. M., Hoffmann, C., Cao, H., Matsuda, M., Meilleur, F., Ye, F., Molaison, J. J., & Boehler, R. (2018). Next-generation diamond cell and applications to single-crystal neutron diffraction. Review of Scientific Instruments, 89(9), Article 092902. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5031454

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