X-ray determination of the Debye temperature at high pressure using high-energy synchrotron radiation

Abstract

The volume dependence of the x-ray Debye temperature in aluminum at high pressure up to 6 GPa was measured with high-energy synchrotron radiation at the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics. High-pressure high-temperature diffraction experiments were carried out by use of a multianvil press system with the energy-dispersive diffraction method. The Debye temperature was determined from the integrated intensity ratio at different temperatures. In order to avoid the intrinsic anharmonic effects and the influence of the energy shift for the Bragg diffraction due to the thermal expansion, constant volume was maintained in a sample by controlling the pressure at elevated temperatures. The interpolated values of the Debye temperature and the Grüneisen parameter of the atmospheric volume were θD0 =367 K and γ0 =3.0, respectively. Excellent agreement was found upon comparison with the published results of conventional experiments.