Properties of diamond under hydrostatic pressures up to 140 GPa
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- 2 February 2003
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Materials
- Vol. 2 (3) , 151-154
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat831
Abstract
Diamond is the archetypal covalent material. Each atom in an sp3 configuration is bonded to four nearest neighbours. Because of its remarkable properties, diamond has been extensively studied1. And yet our knowledge of the properties of diamond under very high pressure is still incomplete. Although diamond is known to be the preferred allotrope of carbon at high pressure, the possibility of producing under pressure high-density polymorphs of diamond, including metallic forms, has been discussed2,3,4. Structural changes have already been reported in diamond under non-hydrostatic pressures around 150 GPa and large deformation5. However, measurements6,7,8 of the properties of diamond under hydrostatic pressure have been limited to below 40 GPa. Here, we report accurate measurements of the volume and of the optical phonon frequency of diamond under hydrostatic pressure up to 140 GPa. We show that diamond is more compressible than currently expected. By combining the volume and the frequency pressure shifts, we deduce that diamond remains very stable under pressure: it is a Gruneisen solid up to at least 140 GPa, and the covalent bond is even slightly strengthened under pressure. Finally, the optical phonon frequency versus pressure is calibrated here to be used as a pressure gauge for diamond anvil cell studies in the multi-megabar range.Keywords
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