Structural Transitions in Elemental Tin at Ultra High Pressures up to 230 GPa

Structure of liquid iron at pressures up to 58 GPa.

We report structural data on liquid iron at pressures up to 58 GPa measured by x-ray scattering in a laser heated diamond anvil cell. The determined structure factor preserves essentially the same shape along the melting curve. Our data demonstrate that liquid iron at high pressures is a close-packed hard-sphere liquid. The results place important constraints on the thermodynamic and transport ...

Robust zero resistance in a superconducting high-entropy alloy at pressures up to 190 GPa

We report the observation of extraordinarily robust zero-resistance superconductivity in the pressurized (TaNb)0.67(HfZrTi)0.33 high-entropy alloy--a material with a body-centered-cubic crystal structure made from five randomly distributed transition-metal elements. The transition to superconductivity (TC ) increases from an initial temperature of 7.7 K at ambient pressure to 10 K at ∼60 GPa, a...

Melting of Tin at High Pressures

Introduction Information about the physical properties of materials at high pressures and temperatures is important for advancing our understanding of planetary interiors. Determining the melting curves of materials has attracted much interest in the planetary sciences. For example, the pressure dependencies of the melting curve and viscosity have been linked [1]. Furthermore, the accurate dete...

High pressure structural studies on Nb5Si3 up to 26.2 GPa

Test of the Einstein-Debye relation in supercooled dibutylphthalate at pressures up to 1.4 GPa.

Broadband dielectric measurements were carried out on di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) under isothermal conditions at hydrostatic pressures up to 1.6 GPa. A comparison of the dielectric relaxation times with the viscosity revealed that no breakdown of the Einstein-Debye relation is induced by high compression. This absence of any decoupling is attributed to the weak intermolecular cooperativity of DB...