For their pilot study, the scientists analysed
diamond samples with the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source LCLS at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S..
Not exact matches
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with the first bulk
sample treated during its 2000 field program so far yielding a parcel of 44
diamonds weighing 21.31 carats.
10-24-2001 Kimberlite
Sample Yields Significant
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Between the
diamonds is a metal gasket
with a small hole, where a nitrogen
sample is loaded.
Earth's interior conditions are so extreme that mimicking them, whether
with molten globes or
with rock
samples crushed between tiny
diamonds, may not be possible for many years.
Smith and colleagues screened thousands of
diamonds submitted daily to the grading operations of the Gemological Institute of America, searching for appropriately sized
samples with detectable inclusions.
By synthesizing pure, bulk
samples of Si - III, Strobel and his team were able to determine that Si - III is actually a semiconductor
with an extremely narrow band gap, narrower than the band gap of
diamond - like silicon crystals, which is the most - commonly utilized kind.
Working
with a
sample of ice that was crushed between two
diamonds, Millot and colleagues used a laser to create a shock wave that plowed through the ice, boosting the pressure even more.
In a lab at Ohio State, the researchers compress different minerals that are common to the mantle and subject them to high pressures and temperatures using a
diamond anvil cell — a device that squeezes a tiny
sample of material between two
diamonds and heats it
with a laser — to simulate conditions in the deep Earth.
To help
with understanding the crystal structure, Steve Hackney, professor of materials science at Michigan Tech, was able to provide crucial high - resolution images and diffraction patterns using transmission electron microscopy on ultrathin
samples prepared
with a
diamond knife by Owen Mills, director of Michigan Tech's Applied Chemical & Morphological Analysis Laboratory.
Also using our Contiuum nanosecond optical parametric oscillator OPO system, the Perkin Elmer Lambda 900 UV / VIS / NIR and Princeton Instruments photon counting ICCD spectroscopic camera, we are studying the correlations in the chemical and physical origins of
diamond luminescence
with lots of
samples from the national mineral collection at the Smithsonian.
To find out how the Almahata Sitta
diamonds formed, the EPFL team, along
with colleagues in France and Germany, analyzed
samples of the meteorites.