Research

Laboratories for high temperature and high pressure

1 atmosphere gas mixing furnace
Photo: Inst. for Geosciences
1 atm gas mixing furnace

Gas Mixing Furnace

Temperature: up to 1900 K 

Pressure: 1 atm

Vertical gas mixing furnace (Carbolite-Gero STF 16/180) for synthesis of glasses or crystals under controlled oxygen fugacity (fO2 conditions).

Gas mixtures of CO, CO2 and Ar/H2 are possible or experiments can be run under atmospheric conditions.

The amount of O2 is measured with a  Zirox XS50B-600 sensor.

Equipment: rapid quench sample holder, gas-tight ceramic tube, water-chilled flanges (top & bottom), and logging units for temperature and oxygen fugacity.

 

Leader / Contact:

Dr. Melanie Sieber & Prof. Dr. Max Wilke

1 atmosphere gas mixing furnace
Photo: Inst. for Geosciences
1 atm gas mixing furnace

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Laboratory for Diamond Anvil Cells and Laser Heating

Temperature: 1500 - 4000 K

Pressure: < 100 GPa
 

Our laboratory for diamond anvil cells (DAC) and laser heating has everything needed for our own and our collaborators' high pressure and high temperature research. 

In detail, there is a suite of different types of diamond anvil cells, binoculars, a ruby fluorescence system (for pressure determination in the DAC) and a spark-erosion micro-drilling system (for preparation of gaskets). The Raman system is located next door.

Gas loading is available for Neon at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) Potsdam, section 3.6 

Our CW infrared laser heating system is portable and has been commissioned for in-situ X-ray emission spectroscopy at PETRA III, DESY, Hamburg.

 

 

Laboratory for preparation and experiments using diamond anvil cells at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam
Photo: Institute for Geosciences
Laboratory for preparation and experiments using diamond anvil cells at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam
Laboratory for preparation and experiments using diamond anvil cells at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam
Photo: Institute for Geosciences
Laboratory for preparation and experiments using diamond anvil cells at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam
Internally Heated Pressure Vessel
Photo: Sarah Cichy
Internally heated pressure vessel (left) connected to 2-stage pressure intensifier (right)

Internally Heated Pressure Vessel (IHPV)

Temperature: up to 1500 K

Pressure:  < 1 GPa ; Ar gas as pressure medium

Internally Heated Pressure Vessel (IHPV), Harwood type

Allows the experimental simulation of magmatic and metamorphic pressure and temperature conditions of the upper crust.

High Pressure Laboratory for Geomaterial Sciences - a Geo.X joint lab at GFZ Potsdam

max. sample size: 50 mm length, 10 mm diameter

normal- & rapid-quench sample holder

 

Leitung / Kontakt:

Dr. Melanie Sieber  & Prof. Dr. Max Wilke

Internally Heated Pressure Vessel
Photo: Sarah Cichy
Internally heated pressure vessel (left) connected to 2-stage pressure intensifier (right)

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Leader

Prof. Wilke, Dr. Morgenroth, Dr. Sieber

 

Institute for Geosciences
Campus Golm
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
Building 27