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Metrology for femtosecond pulsed x-ray heating in diamond anvil cell experiments at the European XFEL: Revisiting the iron phase diagram up to 150 GPa

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2026
American Inst. of Physics Melville, NY

Journal of applied physics 139(4), 045901 () [10.1063/5.0303953]
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Abstract: The development of pulsed intense x-ray sources, such as free electron laser, offers new avenues for high pressure experiments. Here, we study the feasibility and metrology of x-ray heating in diamond anvil cells at the European x-ray free electron laser. This method enables one to volumetrically heat the sample while inhibiting chemical migration and probing the crystallographic structure of the sample throughout the heating with a high repetition rate. We focus our study on iron, whose phase diagram is well established up to 100 GPa, to explore the possibilities and limitations of this technique. We volumetrically heat iron samples at starting pressures ranging from 10 to 138 GPa, using the x-ray beam pulsed at 4.5 MHz in a serial pump-and-probe experimental design. Experimental challenges arise from temperature gradients within the sample, changes in temperature at the 100 ns timescale, the difficulty of direct temperature estimates, the effect of thermal pressure, and the presence of metastable crystallites due to rapid cycles of heating and cooling. Hence, we develop a multi-crystal-like data processing method that allows us to account for sample heterogeneity in probed conditions. We then calibrate our measurements using known physical properties of iron under pressure. Thermal pressure in our experiments increases from 4% of the isochoric prediction at 10 GPa to 23% at 138 GPa, and we show that our data are in agreement with most previous observations of iron in this pressure range. The method can now be implemented at higher pressures and temperatures and on materials with unknown phase diagrams.

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Contributing Institute(s):
  1. HED (XFEL_E1_HED)
  2. FS-PS Fachgruppe HIBEF (FS-HIBEF)
  3. DOOR-User (DOOR ; HAS-User)
  4. FS-Detektor Systeme (FS-DS)
  5. Detector Operations (XFEL_DO_DD_DET)
Research Program(s):
  1. 631 - Matter – Dynamics, Mechanisms and Control (POF4-631) (POF4-631)
  2. 6G3 - PETRA III (DESY) (POF4-6G3) (POF4-6G3)
  3. DFG project G:(GEPRIS)280637173 - FOR 2440: Materie im Inneren von Planeten - Hochdruck-, Planeten- und Plasmaphysik (280637173) (280637173)
Experiment(s):
  1. PETRA Beamline P02.2 (PETRA III)

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