Infrastructure Development

Our tools, including all beamlines used by Earth scientists and equipment used in our labs, need to be continually developed to improve the science 
that they support. The current projects and principal investigators in this category include:




COMPRES I (2002 -2007)

•  Development of the Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell  
   [ T. S. Duffy, Princeton University; G. Shen, Carnegie Institution of Washington; and D. Heinz, University of Chicago ] 

•  Absolute Pressure and Temperature Calibration 
   [Y-b. Wang and M. L. Rivers, University of Chicago; and I. Getting, University of Colorado ] 

•  Brillouin Spectroscopy at Advanced Photon Source 
   [J. D. Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] 

•  Nuclear Resonant Scattering at High Pressure & Temperature: A New Capability for the COMPRES Community 
   [W. Sturhahn, Argonne National Laboratory; J. D. Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
	 and G. Shen, Carnegie Institution of Washington]
 

•  Pressure Calibration at High Temperature
   [Y. Fei, Carnegie Institution of Washington]

•  Development of CEAD (COMPRES Environment for Automated Data Analysis) 
   [ S. Clark and P. Adams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, J. B. Parise, Stony Brook University, 
	 M.L. Rivers, University of Chicago; R. J. Angel and N. L. Ross, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University] 

•  Multi-Anvil Cell Assembly Initiative: New Developments and Production 
   [K. Leinenweber, J. A. Tyburczy, T. D.Sharp, Arizona State University] 

•  Gas-loading system for diamond-anvil cells at Advanced Photon Source 
   [M.L. Rivers and V. Prakapenka, University of Chicago; G. Shen, Carnegie Institution of Washington] 

•  Calorimetry-on-a Chip
   [A. Navrotsky, University of California at Davis; and Frances Hellman, University of California at Berkeley]

•  Monochromatic X-ray Side Station at Beamline X17B2 of the NSLS
   [J. Chen, Stony Brook University]

•  Development of Next Generation Multi-Anvil Module for Megabar Research
   [Y. Wang, University of Chicago, and Co-Is - C. Lesher, H. Green. Y. Fei, G. Shen, C. Agee, W. Durham and M. Manghnani] 

COMPRES II (2007 - 2012)

•  Multi-Anvil Cell Assembly Initiative: New Developments and Production 
   [K. Leinenweber, J. A. Tyburczy, T. D.Sharp, Arizona State University] 

•  High Resolution Inelastic X-ray Scattering at High Pressure and Temperature: A New Capability for the COMPRES Community 
   [W. Sturhahn, Argonne National Laboratory;  J. Jackson, California Institute of Technology and J. D. Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]