Cornell Mineral Physics
Laboratory Cornell Mineral Physics
LaboratoryWelcome to the home page of the High Pressure-Temperture Mineral Physics Laboratory!
We are physically located in 4154, Snee Hall. Click here for a campus
map.
What we are doingWe use the Diamond-Anvil Cell (DAC) to study the physical properties and chemical reactions of minerals under high pressures up to megabars (millions of atmospheric pressure) and high temperatures up to thousands of degrees celsius. Intense X-ray avaiable at CHESS.
Current Personnel
William A. Bassett,
Principle Investigator, Professor. Maura W. Weathers,
Senior Research Associate Eugene Huang, Former Student, Adaemia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Andy H. Shen, Former Student,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Tzy-chung Wu,
Former Student, Applied Koatsu Technology, Santa Clara, CA Christina
Colle, Former Student, currently Visiting Scientist Robert Darling, Visiting Professor,
SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY,Collaborators Alan Anderson, St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Pamela C. Burnley, Cornell High Energy
Synchrotron Source(CHESS)
I-Ming
Chou, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
Stephen Guggenheim, University of
Illinois at Chicago.
Russell
J. Hemley, Geophysical
Laboratory
Ho-kwang
Mao, Geophysical Laboratory
Robert
Mayanovic, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
Hartmut Spetzler, University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO
Donald J. Weidner, SUNY Stony Brook.
What we learned recently Fe-Ni Alloy and the Earth's Core. Olivine-Spinel
Phase Transition and Deep Earthquakes (with images and diagrams) Stress
Measurement in Diamond-Anvil Cells Developments
of Hydrothermal Diamond-Anvil Cells(HDAC) (with diagrams and a preprint) P-V-T
Equations of State of Earth's Fluids Equations
of State of Carbonates (with a diagram and a preprint) Clay Hydrates
Under High H2O Pressures (with diagrams, an image and a preprint) X-ray Absorption
of First-Row Transition Elements at High Pressure and TemperatureUltrasonic Measurements
in the Diamond Anvil CellOther high-pressure research labs on the
Web Stony Brook, a NSF Geophysical
Laboratory of Mineral
Physics Institute of High
Pressure Geophysics and Geochemistry Group of Univeristy of Hawaii Caltech University of Chicago