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Contact: Claus Habfast
claus.habfast@esrf.fr
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European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Caption: This illustration depicts a diamond anvil cell which allows to compress microscopic pieces of material to pressures of 3 Mbar and more. Laser pulses (black arrows) then heat the sample and an X-ray beam (orange) passes through the cell to probe the states of matter at these extreme conditions.
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