Overview of High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT) facility at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory

HPCAT is a dedicated facility for high pressure research and is located within the Advanced Photon Source. Goal of HPCAT is to develop and implement synchrotron-based x-ray techniques that are coupled with diamond anvil cell, portable large volume press, and other platforms for studying materials at extreme pressure-temperature conditions.
Comprised of four simultaneously operational beamlines, HPCAT is the largest dedicated high-pressure synchrotron-based facility in the world and provides broad range of cutting-edge x-ray techniques, as well as complementary high-pressure support equipment.
Over the years numerous high-pressure x-ray diffraction, spectroscopy, and imaging techniques have been developed and established for high pressure research through a robust national laboratory and university partnership, and broad general user operation.
Currently, HPCAT has two insertion device beamlines, one for diffraction and the other for spectroscopy, and two bending magnet beamlines, one for general purpose and the other for white-beam application. Our presentation will provide overview of HPCAT and recent experimental techniques being developed.