The diamond cell stimulates high‐pressure research

SEP 01, 1976

Diamond‐anvil pressure cells and an accurate way to measure high pressures have expanded research in many areas, including electrical properties, radioactivity, crystallography and spectroscopy.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3023899

Stanley Block

Gasper Piermarini

Scientific advances can be made either in a dramatic and revolutionary manner or in a slow evolutionary way, sometimes covering a span of several years. An example of the latter process is the diamond‐anvil pressure cell, which in about a decade and a half has developed in stepwise fashion from a rather qualitative instrument to the sophisticated quantitative research tool it is today, capable of reaching static pressures in the megabar range.

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Stanley Block, Crystallography Section, National Bureau of Standards.

Gasper Piermarini, Crystallography Section, National Bureau of Standards.