Toward an international practical pressure scale: A proposal for an IPPS ruby gauge (IPPS-Ruby2020)

G Shen, Y Wang, A Dewaele, C Wu… - High Pressure …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
At the 26th AIRAPT conference in 2017, a task group was formed to work on an International
Practical Pressure Scale (IPPS). This report summarizes the activities of the task group …

[HTML][HTML] High-pressure, high-temperature behavior of silicon carbide: A review

K Daviau, KKM Lee - Crystals, 2018 - mdpi.com
The high-pressure behavior of silicon carbide (SiC), a hard, semi-conducting material
commonly known for its many polytypic structures and refractory nature, has increasingly …

An improved and extended internally consistent thermodynamic dataset for phases of petrological interest, involving a new equation of state for solids

TJB Holland, R Powell - Journal of metamorphic Geology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The thermodynamic properties of 254 end‐members, including 210 mineral end‐members,
18 silicate liquid end‐members and 26 aqueous fluid species are presented in a revised …

Synthesis of ultra-incompressible superhard rhenium diboride at ambient pressure

HY Chung, MB Weinberger, JB Levine, A Kavner… - Science, 2007 - science.org
The quest to create superhard materials rarely strays from the use of high-pressure synthetic
methods, which typically require gigapascals of applied pressure. We report that rhenium …

Toward an internally consistent pressure scale

Y Fei, A Ricolleau, M Frank, K Mibe… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Our ability to interpret seismic observations including the seismic discontinuities and the
density and velocity profiles in the earth's interior is critically dependent on the accuracy of …

Pressure calibration of diamond anvil Raman gauge to 310GPa

Y Akahama, H Kawamura - Journal of Applied Physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
In order to develop an optical method for pressure determination in the multimegabar region,
the first-order Raman spectra of diamond anvils were investigated at pressures up to 310 …

Ruby under pressure

K Syassen - High Pressure Research, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The ruby luminescence method is widely used for pressure measurement in the diamond
anvil cell and other optically transparent pressure cells. With this application in mind, we …

Advancements in the search for superhard ultra‐incompressible metal borides

JB Levine, SH Tolbert, RB Kaner - Advanced Functional …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Dense transition metal borides have recently been identified as superhard materials that
offer the possibility of ambient pressure synthesis compared to the conventional high …

Harder than diamond: dreams and reality

VV Brazhkin, AG Lyapin, RJ Hemley - Philosophical Magazine A, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Analysis of correlations between various physical properties of solids provides a
formulation of simple criteria applicable to the search for new superhard materials. The …

Elasticity of MgO and a primary pressure scale to 55 GPa

CS Zha, H Mao, RJ Hemley - Proceedings of the National …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
We have studied the elasticity and pressure–density equation of state of MgO in diamond
cells to 55 GPa and have doubled the previous pressure limit of accurate elasticity …