Materials properties measurements and particle beam interactions studies using electrostatic levitation

PF Paradis, T Ishikawa, GW Lee… - Materials Science and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Electrostatic levitators have been around for more than 30 years and have become mature
tools for the material science community. Originally developed as positioners for materials …

Aerodynamic levitation and laser heating: Applications at synchrotron and neutron sources

L Hennet, V Cristiglio, J Kozaily, I Pozdnyakova… - The European Physical …, 2011 - Springer
Aerodynamic levitation is an effective way to suspend samples which can be heated with CO
2 lasers. The advantages of this containerless technique are the simplicity and compactness …

Nanoscale organization in room temperature ionic liquids: a coarse grained molecular dynamics simulation study

BL Bhargava, R Devane, ML Klein, S Balasubramanian - Soft Matter, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
A model to perform coarse grained molecular dynamics simulations of room temperature
ionic liquids of the family 1-n-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate has been …

Joint diffraction and modeling approach to the structure of liquid alumina

LB Skinner, AC Barnes, PS Salmon, L Hennet… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The structure of liquid alumina at a temperature∼ 2400 K near its melting point was
measured using neutron and high-energy x-ray diffraction by employing containerless …

The structure of amorphous and deeply supercooled liquid alumina

C Shi, OLG Alderman, D Berman, J Du… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Liquid Al2O3 has been supercooled more than 500 K below its melting point (T m= 2,327 K)
using aerodynamic levitation and laser heating techniques. High energy synchrotron x-ray …

Aerodynamic levitator furnace for measuring thermophysical properties of refractory liquids

D Langstaff, M Gunn, GN Greaves, A Marsing… - Review of Scientific …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The development of novel contactless aerodynamic laser heated levitation techniques is
reported that enable thermophysical properties of refractory liquids to be measured in situin …

The structure of molten calcium ferrite under various redox conditions

C Shi, OLG Alderman, A Tamalonis… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Laser-heated melts based on the 43CaO–57Fe2O3− x eutectic, close to the calcium ferrite
(CF) composition, were measured with high-energy X-ray diffraction using aerodynamic …

Neutron scattering experiments on liquid droplets using electrostatic levitation

T Kordel, D Holland-Moritz, F Yang, J Peters… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We present a compact electrostatic levitator as a sample environment for high quality
neutron scattering experiments on melts. By this containerless approach we are able to …

Interplay between non-bridging oxygen, triclusters, and fivefold Al coordination in low silica content calcium aluminosilicate melts

N Jakse, M Bouhadja, J Kozaily, JWE Drewitt… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
In the present work the structural properties of low silica content calcium aluminosilicate
melts with concentration ratio CaO/Al 2 O 3= 1 are investigated in the liquid and …

Spin and valence dependence of iron partitioning in Earth's deep mantle

H Piet, J Badro, F Nabiei… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
We performed laser-heated diamond anvil cell experiments combined with state-of-the-art
electron microanalysis (focused ion beam and aberration-corrected transmission electron …