Abstract
Laser heating in diamond anvil cell (DAC) equipped with nano-polycrystalline diamond (NPD) anvils was tested for the first time using various types of lasers. An NPD-based DAC was found to provide better heating efficiency than a standard DAC with single-crystal anvils, probably due to the order of magnitude lower thermal conductivity of the NPD. We observed high-temperature generation exceeding 5000 and 3500 K during laser heating of hcp-Fe sample at pressures of ∼100 and ∼170 GPa, respectively. The results of the present study demonstrate promising potential of laser-heated nano-polycrystalline DAC for the generation of very high temperature under multi-megabar pressure conditions equivalent to those of the Earth's core.
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