Manufactured by Sumitomo Heavy Industries Co. in 1988.

Machine specification

• Guide block system: uniaxial split-sphere type
• Maximum press load: 10 MN
• 1st stage anvil: hardened-steel split-spheres, 2nd stage anvil: tungsten carbide cubes with 32 mm edge length
• Maximum pressure: 20 GPa
• Maximum temperature: 2000 K
• Sample volume: 1 mm³ at 20 GPa, 5x10² mm³ at 7 GPa

Application

• Synthesis of high-pressure samples
• Determination of phase relations by the conventional quench method
• Simultaneous measurement of thermal diffusivity and conductivity at high pressures
• Ultrasonic experiment with liquid medium at high pressures

Scientists to contact: Daisuke Yamazaki, Takashi Yoshino, Akira YONEDA.