Homoepitaxial Boron Doped Diamond Anvils as Heating Elements in a Diamond Anvil Cell

ORAL

Abstract

Recent advances in designer-diamond technology have allowed for the use of electrically and thermally conducting homoepitaxially-grown layers of boron-doped diamond (grown at 1200 $^{\circ}$C with a 2{\%} mixture of CH$_{4}$ in H, resulting in extremely high doping levels $\sim$ 10$^{20}$/cm$^{3})$ to be used as heating elements in a diamond anvil cell (DAC). These diamonds allow for precise control of the temperature inside of the diamond anvil itself, particularly when coupled with a cryostat. Furthermore, the unmatched thermally conducting nature of diamond ensures that no significant lateral gradient in temperature occurs across the culet area. Since a thermocouple can easily be attached anywhere on the diamond surface, we can also measure diamond temperatures directly. With two such heaters, one can raise sample temperatures uniformly, or with any desired gradient along the pressure axis while preserving optical access. In our continuing set of benchmark experiments, we use two newly created matching heater anvils with 500$\mu $m culets to analyze the various fluorescence emission lines of ruby microspheres, which show more complicated behavior than traditional ruby chips. We also report on the temperature dependence of the high-pressure Raman modes of paracetamol (C$_{8}$H$_{9}$NO$_{2})$ up to 20 GPa.

Authors

  • Jeffrey Montgomery

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • Gopi Samudrala

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • Spencer Smith

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • Georgiy Tsoi

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • Yogesh Vohra

    UAB, Birmingham AL, Spencer J Smith <sjs605@uab.edu>

  • Samuel Weir

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory