Workshop on Diffraction at low-temperature and high-pressure (22 June 2009)

The goal of this workshop was to highlight from various viewpoints the importance of low-temperature structural data at high pressures in conjunction with electronic and magnetic properties and to discuss the potential experiments on I15, extreme condition beam line at Diamond. The lively discussion during the session and the tour to I15 highlighted the need of low-temperature diffraction in the high-pressure community. 21 people attended the workshop.

Workshop Summary

The four talks covered a broad range of applications, ranging from using low temperatures of the order of 10K to perform single-crystal diffraction in the 100 GPa pressure regime on light elements to powder and single-crystal diffraction on strongly correlated electron systems at 4 K or lower up to pressures of the order of 30 GPa. In both cases the combination of low temperature and high pressure is indispensible to explore an extended T-p phase space in the structural phase diagrams. In the latter case a vital interest is to combine the structural information with electronic, magnetic, and optical measurements.