Master Class: High-Pressure Liquid Diffraction

The proliferation of high-flux x-ray beamlines at modern synchrotrons and XFELs has fueled recent advances and interest in determining the high-pressure structure of liquids and glasses. This class will provide an overview and discussion of amorphous and liquid diffraction—focusing on static- and dynamic-compression experiments and analyses. Particular emphasis will be placed on the effects of limited momentum transfer, and the accuracy of P, S(Q) and g(r) determinations. The leads of this masterclass have written or modified software to analyze high-pressure liquid diffraction, including the open-source packages Glassure, LiquidDiffract, and Amorpheus.

Format: Lectures, and discussion including an overview of available analysis packages. Our goal is to stimulate discussion about experimental design, analytical methods, and innovative approaches to the study of disordered materials at high pressure.