High pressure phase transformations play an important role in the search for new materials
and material synthesis, as well as in geophysics. However, they are poorly characterized …

The combination of high pressure and severe plastic deformation in the process of high-
pressure torsion in a rotational diamond anvil cell (RDAC) produces a variety of important …

The olivine-wadsleyite transformation is believed to occur at depths of about 410 km in the
Earth, producing a major seismic discontinuity in this region of the Earth's mantle. The …

The spatially resolved intragranular orientation spread in two representative bulk grains of
interstitial-free steel deformed to 9% tension has been investigated. A three-dimensional X …

In high pressure research, static megabar pressures are typically produced by compression
of a thin sample by two diamonds in various types of diamond anvil cells. This process is …

The time-domain Brillouin scattering technique, also known as picosecond ultrasonic
interferometry, allows monitoring of the propagation of coherent acoustic pulses, having …

The '660'discontinuity is often associated with a phase transitions in pyrolite at about 24
GPa. There are ubiquitous reports of seismic anisotropy below the '660'which are difficult to …

The coesite‐stishovite phase transition is considered the most plausible candidate to
explain the X‐discontinuity observed at around 300 km depth in a variety of tectonic settings …

Time-domain Brillouin scattering (TDBS) uses ultrashort laser pulses to (i) generate
coherent acoustic pulses of picoseconds duration in a solid sample and (ii) follow their …

Microstructures govern the mechanical properties of materials and change dramatically
during phase transformations. A detailed understanding of microstructures at different stages …