progress in the multi-anvil cell assembly development project 2004-2005 compres fiscal year. kurt...
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Progress in the multi-anvil cell assembly development project
2004-2005 COMPRES fiscal year.
Kurt Leinenweber, James Tyburczy and Thomas G. Sharp,
Arizona State University
New this year: we held a workshop!
Day 1 formal lectures (shown: Yanbin Wang)
Day 2 - 3, three experiments (shown: waiting for spheres to fall)
The Fall
Day 3: Student presentations (Clair Runge)
Day 3 (cont.) (Rachel Dwarski)
(Opening a sample)
Over 2000 octahedra “minted” (“savings” will be $36,000 when they are all used).
4 new molds made for injection-molding octahedra and cubes.
New this year: more numerous affordable octahedra:
These $3.50 laser-cut rhenium furnaces are stable and their power curves are reproducible.
Numerous affordable furnaces:
New ceramics:
New batches of extruded ceramic pieces are in the finished size, resemble pasta noodles, and the cost is 50 cents per piece or even lower (shown: MgO, left, and forsterite, right).
New this year: assemblies were calibrated at beam lines and in-house, and further characterized through extended use at several locations.
We’re working on complete assemblies. Shown: the 8/3, partially assembled.
New this year: The “Zirconia Problem.”
Bad zirconia has temporarily wrecked our 14/8, 18/11 and 25/15 programs. We are now testing extruded zirconia from a new source.
New this year: In-situ assemblies:
2. Not shown: Forsterite or MgO sleeves outside the furnace, and mullite octahedra - new, low-Z combinations that work well! (Cubes being used in the DIAs at Brookhaven and APS: Hongbo Long and others).
1. Shown: Vertical windows in LaCrO3 sleeve (CNC machining) with alumina window, and matching slits in Re furnace (laser-cut). To be tested in late July of this year.
Conclusions:
We are figuring out how to make inexpensive and reliable assemblies like we had originally hoped, thanks to COMPRES.
“COMPRES care packages”
More specialized/improved assemblies are now on tap.
We need to solve the “Zirconia problem” soon!