SMEC 2007

Monday April 16th, 2007

Room #1

panel: The future of LVP research

Kenichi Funakoshi, Akifumi Nozawa, and Yoshinori Tange
Recent developments for high pressure research using large volume press at the SPring-8

Wilson Crichton, Mohamed Mezouar
Recent highlights and future developments in large-volume research at the ESRF

H. J. MUELLER, F. R. SCHILLING and C. LATHE
Triple-Stage Multi-Anvil DIA – Approach to Higher Pressures in LVP

Chris A. Tulk, J. B. Parise, L. Cranswick, I. Swainson, R. Rogge, R. Hemley, H.-k. Mao, and D. Locke
Neutron Scattering under extreme conditions at the Spallation Neutron Source

Yanbin Wang, Norimasa Nishiyama, Mark Rivers, Takeyuki Uchida, Steve Sutton
Recent Developments at the LVP Facility of GSECARS for Synchrotron-Based High-Pressure Research

Tetsuo IRIFUNE, Takehiro KUNIMOTO, Yoshinori TANGE, Toru SHINMEI, Yu-ichiro SUEDA, Hitoshi SUMIYA, Ken-ichi FUNAKOSHI
High pressure and temperature generation using polycrystalline diamond anvils

Takaaki Kawazoe, David Tinker, Kazuhiko Otuka, Yu Nishihara, Shun-ichiro Karato, Zhicheng Jing, Mainak Mookherjee
Deformation of olivine under deep mantle condition using a Rotational Drickamer Apparatus and synchrotron radiation

Nadege Hilairet, Bruno Reynard, Isabelle Daniel, Yanbin Wang, Norimasa Nishiyama, Sylvain Petitgirard, and Sebastien Merkel
Rheology of serpentines at high pressure and high temperature: the weakest mineral within subduction zones

H. Jung, Y. Fei, P. G. Silver, and H.W. Green
Detecting acoustic emissions at high pressure and high temperature using multianvil press: Application to deep seismicity

C. E. Lesher, S. Gaudio, Y. Wang, N. Nishiyama, and M. Rivers
X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AT HIGH PRESSURES: APPLICATIONS TO NON-CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS

Helene Couvy, Donald Weidner, Jiuhua Chen
In-situ shear deformation experiments using Deformation-DIA press

Y. Le Godec, G. Hamel, D. Martinez-Garcia, T. Hammouda, V.L. Solozhenko, W. Crichton, G. Morard, M. Mezouar and S. Klotz.
Compact multianvil device for in situ angular-dispersive X-ray diffraction studies at high pressures and temperatures

Room #2

panel: Hydrogen storage

Ho-kwang Mao and Wendy L. Mao
Hydrogen storage in molecular compounds

Michael Hirscher and Barbara Panella
Metal-Organic Frameworks for Hydrogen Storage

P. Jena
Nano Materials for Hydrogen Storage

Y. Andersson, M. Sahlberg and C. Zlotea
Hydrogen absorption in magnesium compounds.

R. Checchetto, N. Bazzanella, A. Miotello, P. Mengucci
H2 storage efficiency and sorption kinetics in composite materials.

A. Blomqvist, C. M. Araújo, P. Jena, and R. Ahuja
Ab Initio Study of 3d-Transition Metal Doped NaAlH4

C. Moyses Araujo, Ralph H. Scheicher, Puru Jena, and Rajeev Ahuja
First-principles investigation of structural properties of Li2NH and Li2Mg(NH)2 and their applications to hydrogen storage

Jinghua Guo
Hydrogen Adsorption of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Studied by Soft-X-Ray Spectroscopy

Björgvin Hjörvarsson
The influence of strain and finite size on hydrogen absorption

Ashley C. Stowe, Monika Hartl, Alice Acatrinci, Luke Daemen, Donald Anton, Ragaiy Zidan
The role of vibrational coupling in understanding the thermodynamics of hydride formation

PATRICIA E. KALITA, STANISLAV SINOGEIKIN, ANDREW CORNELIUS, KRISTINA E. LIPINSKA-KALITA, XUEZHI KE, CHANGFENG CHEN, THOMAS HARTMANN,
Investigations of TiH2, a Compound of Potential Interest for Hydrogen Storage, up to the Megabar Region

Room #3

panel: Structural consequences of pressure-induced electronic phase transition in iron-oxides and related minerals

Wolfgang Sturhahn
Phonon density of states at the spin crossover in (Mg0.75Fe0.25)O ferropericlase

S.A.Kharlamova, A.G.Gavriliuk, S.Sinogeikin, V.Struzhkin, I.S.Lyubutin, W.Sturhahn, S.G.Ovchinnikov
Phase transitions in GdFe3(BO3)4 under high pressure.

M. P. Pasternak, G. Kh. Rozenberg, W. M. Xu, Y. Amiel, M.Hanfland, M. Amboage, R. D. Taylor, and R. Jeanloz
P-T induced magnetic transition in spinel magnetite instigated by structural phase transition

L. Dubrovinsky, C. McCammon, O. Narygina, I. Kantor, V. Prakapenka
Interplay between structural and electronic behavior in iron bearing silicate perovskites at conditions of Earth lower mantle

A.L. Cornelius, R.S. Kumar, M.K. Jacobsen, J.J. Hamlin, S. Deemyad, J.S. Schilling, G. Cao and J.J. Neumeier
High Pressure Studies on Ferromagnetic SrRuO3

G. Kh. Rozenberg, M. P. Pasternak
Crystallographic transitions related to magnetic and electronic phenomena in TM compounds

Rajeev Ahuja and C.M.Fang
High Pressure Phase Transition in Fe bearing MgSiO3

panel: Laser heating of materials at high pressure

R. Boehler, D. Santamaria-Perez, D. Errandonea, and M.Mezouar
Melting of Iron by X-ray Diffraction to 150 GPa.

M. Mezouar, R. Boehler, A. Dewaele, N. Guignot
Melting curve determination by fast in situ X-ray diffraction: the case of lead

Room #4

panel: Inhomogeneous and Strongly Correlated Materials with Advanced Functions

Carlo Di Castro
Quantum critical point and phase separation in the high Tc materials

Y. J. Uemura
First-order quantum phase transitions in MnSi, (Sr,Ca)RuO3, HTSC and superfluid He

Y. W. Park
Spin injection in polymer nanofibers and the device applicability of carbon based nanostructures

Serguei Brazovskii
Solitons in strongly correlated electronic systems: recent experiments and theory proposals.

S. Fratini, G. Rastelli, S. Ciuchi, A. F. Morpurgo
Dynamics of electrons at organic/dielectric interfaces: the physics of organic transistors

Josef Ashkenazi
Static and Dynamical Inhomogeneity in a Strongly Correlated Electron System and the Physics of the High Tc Cuprates

John D. Dow
Successful re-interpretation of superconductivity data.

N.Kirova
POLARONIC EFFECTS AT THE FIELD EFFECT JUNCTIONS FOR UNCONVENTIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS.

Tuesday April 17th, 2007

Room #1

panel: Minerals at high temperature and pressure: phase transitions, EoS, and applications

Jennifer M. Jackson and Lara Wagner
Elasticity of orthopyroxene at high-temperature: Novel phase transitions and applications to geophysics

CÁMARA, F.
High temperature displacive transitions in pyroxenes

Ren Lu, Juergen Konzett , Daniel J. Frost, Hexiong Yang, and Robert T. Downs
High-pressure Raman spectroscopic study of clinopyroxenes with 6-coordinated silicon

Downs RT, Thompson RM, Pommier CJS, McCarthy AC and Yang H
Crystal chemistry of pyroxene compression

Monica Dapiaggi, HyunJeong Kim, Emil S. Božin, Simon J.L. Billinge, Asel Sartbaeva, Stephen A. Wells, Gilberto Artioli
Study of the negative thermal expansion of cuprite-type structures by means of temperature-dependent Pair Distribution Function analysis: preliminary results

Hexiong Yang, Juergen Konzett, and Robert T. Downs
Synthesis, crystal chemistry, and compressibility of a high-pressure phase (Ti0.50Zr0.26Cr0.10Mg0.14)O1.81 isostructural with cubic zirconia

A. Soldatov
Fullerene C70 in polymeric state: recent results and prospectives

panel: High-pressure materials science: Synchrotron x-ray scattering studies

T. Yamanaka1, 2, H. Uchida1 and Y. Nakamoto2
Structure transition of post-spinels, CaTi2O4, CaMn2O4 and CaFe2O4 under high pressures up to 75GPa

Anil K. Singh
Are the pressures on the sample and marker inside the diamond anvil cell equal?

Y. Wang, T. Uchida, N. Nishiyama, R. B. von Dreele, M. L. River, K. Funakoshi, A. Nozawa, and H. Kaneko
CAESAR: High-Pressure Angle-Dispersive Powder Diffraction Using an Energy-Dispersive Setup and White Synchrotron Radiation

Oliver Tschauner, Boris Kiefer, Haozhe Liu, Sheng-Nian Luo
Structural polymorphism in post-perovskite

C. David Martin John B. Parise
X-ray diffraction and Rietveld structure refinement of CaIrO3 with details for a graphite gasket-insert to the diamond anvil cell.

Atsushi Kubo, Boris Kiefer, Sang-Heon Shim, Guoyin Shen, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Robert J. Cava and Thomas S. Duffy
Rietveld structure refinement of MgGeO3 post perovskite (pPv) phase to 1 Mbar

Valentin Iota, Choong-Shik Yoo, Zsolt Jenei, Jae-Hyun Klepeis
Bonding Changes in Compressed Carbon Dioxide

Michael Pravica, Hubertus Giefers, Zachary Quine, Edward Romano, Brian Yulga, Sean Bajar, Wenge Yang, and Peter Liermann
Radiation-induced decomposition of energetic materials.

Room #2

panel: Hydrogen storage

Jennifer Eliseo, Godwin Severa, and Craig M. Jensen
Development of Anionic Transition Metal Borohydride Complexes as Hydrogen Storage Materials

Frederick E. Pinkerton
Quaternary Li-B-N-H Hydrides: Synthesis and Hydrogen Release Properties

Y. Nakamori, H.-W. Li, M. Matsuo, S. Towata, K. Miwa, S. Orimo
Development of Metal Borohydrides for Hydrogen Storage

Takayuki Ichikawa, Haiyan Leng, Shigehito Isobe, Hironobu Fujii, Yoshitsugu Kojima
Hydrogen Storage and Structural Properties in Li-Mg-N-H System

Ralph H. Scheicher, Carlos Moyses Araujo, Rajeev Ahuja
A first-principles look at the thermodynamics of hydrogen sorption reactions in Li-Mg-N-H systems

Polly A. Berseth, Ashley C. Stowe, Donald L. Anton, Ragaiy Zidan, Laura K. Laughlin and Thomas P. Farrell
Exploration of mixed metal hydride materials

Ragaiy Zidan
Development and Characterization of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials

panel: Superhard Nanocrystalline Materials

Natalia Dubrovinskaia
Advanced nanocrystalline materials or can noncarbon material reach diamond hardness?

Tetsuo Irifune, Hitoshi Sumiya
Synthesis of high-quality nano-polycrystalline diamond using Kawai-type multianvil apparatus

M. I. Eremets, I. A. Trojan, and R. Boehler
Hardness and yield strength of hard materials

Raul Arenal, Paola Bruno, Dean J. Miller, Dieter M. Gruen
INSULATOR-METAL TRANSITION IN ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND FILMS AND THE FORMATION OF DIAMOND NANOWIRES

Vitali B. Prakapenka, Alexei Kuznetsov, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Mark L. Rivers, Stephen R. Sutton
Pressure-assisted synthesis of nano-sized materials in a diamond anvil cell

Varghese Swamy and Leonid S. Dubrovinsky
Hard and not-so-hard TiO2 phases

Room #3

panel: Ab initio simulations at extreme conditions

Alexander S. Côté, Lidunka Vočadlo and John P. Brodholt
Light element iron alloys in the Earth’s inner core: an ab initio study.

Koichiro Umemoto and Renata M. Wentzcovitch
Potentially novel ultrahigh pressure form of ABX3-type compounds

R. Ahuja
High Pressure Structural Phase Transitions in Alkali Metals

Matteo Cococcioni, Gerbrand Ceder, Nicola Marzari
Nucleation and kinetics of shock-induced plastic deformations for group-IV nanoparticles from first-principles molecular dynamics

Julia Contreras-García, a Ángel M. Pendás, a Bernard Silvi,b J. Manuel Recio a
Towards a quantum-chemical interpretation of compressibility in solids

Colin W. Glass, Artem R. Oganov
Crystal Structure Prediction from First Principles: Strategies and Results

panel: High-pressure studies of amorphous materials, liquids and melts.

John B. Parise
Opportunities for structural mineralogy on small length scales

Simon Clark, J. Zaug and A.K. Soper
Structural study of an amorphous to amorphous phase transition in red phosphorus

Emmanuel Soignard, Jeff Yarger, Samrat Amin, Qiang Mei
Pushing new boundaries in high pressure X-ray diffraction within supercooled liquids and amorphous solids: exploration of phase transformations.

K. E. Lipinska-Kalita, O. A. Hemmers, P. E. Kalita, G. Mariotto, Y. Ohki, S. Gramsch, R. J. Hemley, T. Hartmann and L. Ma
Amorphous Matrix-Based Composite Materials: Fabrication, High-Pressure Structural Integrity and Structural Transformations

J. M. Zaug, S. M. Clark, and A. K. Soper
A Raman study of an amorphous-amorphous phase transition in red phosphorus

Room #4

panel: Inhomogeneous and Strongly Correlated Materials with Advanced Functions

T. Egami
Nanoscale Complexities in the Superconducting Cuprates

H. Oyanagi, A. Tsukada and M. Naito
Microscopic Origin of Metal-Insulator Transition in Non-Doped T’ Cuprates

I. Bozovic
Experiments with atomically engineered high-Tc films and heterostructures

Davor Pavuna
Direct ARPES on Strained LSCO-214 High-Tc Films :Enhanced vs Diminished Superconductivity

T. Adachi, Y. Tanabe, K. Omori, T. Kawamata, H. Sato, T. Noji, Y. Koike, K. Kudo, T. Sasaki, N. Kobayashi
Inhomogeneous superconductivity and stripe correlations in La-214 high-Tc superconductors

N.L. Saini
Local atomic structure and functional properties of the transition metal oxides

M. Oda, Y. H. Liu, N. Momono and M. Ido
Fermi-arc Superconductivity, Pseudogap and Charge Order in High-Tc Cuprates

K. McElroy, Jinho Lee, K. Fujita, M. Wang, Y. Aiura, H. Bando, M. Ishikado, T. Masui, J.-X. Zhu, A. V. Balatsky, J. A. Slezak, D.-H. Lee, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. C. Davis
Sources and mechanisms of nanoscale electronic disorder in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x

Hiroshi Eisaki
Effect of disorder on Tc and electronic inhomogeneity in high-Tc cuprates

A. Bansil
Appearance of Universal Metallic Dispersion in a Doped Mott Insulator

Akihiro Ino, T. Yamasaki, T. Kamo, H. Anzai, T. Fujita, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, A. Fujimori, Z.-X. Shen, M. Ishikado, K. Fujita, and S. Uchida
Nodal quasiparticle study of high-Tc cuprates using low-energy tunable photons

A. Lanzara
ARPES study of cuprates with variable chemical pressure

A. Bussmann-Holder, R. Khasanov, A. Shengelaya, H. Keller and K. A. Müller
Mixed order parameter symmetries in cuprate superconductors

S. Caprara, C. Di Castro, T. Enss, and M. Grilli
Spectroscopic evidences for nearly critical charge collective fluctuations in superconducting cuprates

V.V. Kabanov, D. Mihailovic, T. Mertelj Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Coulomb frustrated first order phase transition and charge segregation

S. Ciuchi
Optical properties of Holstein t-J model from dynamical mean-field theory

Wednesday April 18th, 2007

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J. Chang, S. Pailhès, M. Shi, M. Mansson, T. Claesson and O. Tjernberg, L. Patthey, V. Perez-Dieste, J. Voigt, N. Momono, M. Oda, M. Ido, A. Schnyder, C. Mudry and J. Mesot
Study of low- and high- energy electronic responses in high-temperature superconductors

Room #1

panel: High-pressure materials science: Synchrotron x-ray scattering studies

Eugene Gregoryanz
Rings, chains, liquid-like states, charge-density waves and superconductivity in sulphur

Haozhe Liu
X-ray scattering studies for materials under high pressure: From powder to amorphous samples

C.J. Benmore, Q. Mei, J.L. Yarger, S. Sen and J. Parise
The first and second sharp diffraction peaks in network and molecular glasses.

Sung Keun Lee
Direct Probing of Bonding Changes in Amorphous Oxides at High Pressure with Inelastic X-ray Scattering

J.P. Itié
High pressure x-ray absorption study of glasses, amorphous materials and liquids

Jiuhua Chen, Tony Yu, Lars Ehm Quanzhong Guo and Shengnian Luo
Study of clusters in liquid gallium using x-ray diffuse scattering

Ho-kwang Mao, Guoyin Shen, and Russell J. Hemley
High-Pressure Synergetic Center (HPSynC) – The APS-Wide Approach to High-Pressure Synchrotron Research

A.Marco Saitta, T. Strässle, Y. Le Godec, G. Hamel, S. Klotz, J.S. Loveday, and R.J. Nelmes
Structure of dense liquide water by neutron scattering to 6.5 GPa / 670 K

Chunxiao Gao, Yanzhang Ma, Julong He, Dongli Yu, Yongjun Tian
In-Situ X-Ray diffraction of BCN Compound under Pressure up to 30 GPa

Room #2

panel: Theory and Experiments on Ferroelectrics and Other Active Materials

T.Yamanaka, K. Ohi, H. Sugita and Y. Nakamoto
MEM electron density distribution of ferroelectrics under compression - BaTiO3 PbTiO3 KNbO3 perovskites

J.P. Itié, Synchrotron SOLEIL, L’Orme des Merisiers St Aubin BP 48, F-91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
High pressure phase transformation in titanate perovskite: the local point of view

R.E. Cohen, CIW Zhigang Wu, U. Ca. Berkeley
Prediction of Pressure Induced Morphotropic Phase Boundary in PbTiO3 and the Origin of Giant Electromechanical Coupling via Polarization Rotation

Muhtar Ahart, M. Somayazulu, R. E. Cohen, and R. J. Hemley
Morphotropic phase boundary in a pure material: Pressure induced phase transitions in PbTiO3

D.J. Singh, C.H. Park and D.I. Bilc
Polar Behavior and Ferroelectricity in Perovskites From A-Site Size Disorder

V. V. Struzhkin, A. G. Gavriliuk, and I. S. Lyubutin
PRESSURE-INDUCED SPIN TRANSITIONS IN MULTIFERROICS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS

Jens Kreisel
Effect of high-pressure on functional perovskite-type oxides

Zuo-Guang Ye
Dynamics of Polar Nanoregions and Phase Transitions in Relaxor Ferroelectrics

panel: Superhard Nanocrystalline Materials

J.S. Tse, D.D. Klug and F. Gao2
A phenomenological Model for Hardness of Nano-crystalline Materials

Room #3

panel: Extreme Materials Research

M. I. Eremets, I. A. Trojan, A. G. Gavriliuk, S. A. Medvedev
Synthesis and properties of polymeric nitrogen

Wendy L. Mao, Ho-kwang Mao, Yue Meng, Peter Eng, Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, Yong Q. Cai, Jinfu Shu, and Russell J. Hemley
X-ray induced dissociation of H2O and formation of an O2-H2 compound at high pressure

A. Marco Saitta, Th. Strässle, S. Klotz
Structure, translational and orientational order of the amorphous ices

Yusheng Zhao and Jianzhong Zhang
Enhancement of Yield Strength in ZirconiumMetals through High-Pressure Induced alpha-to-omega Structural Phase Transition

Jonathan C. Crowhurst
Synthesis under extreme conditions of new transition metal nitrides.

William J Evans, Magnus J Lipp, Bruce J Baer, Hyunchae Cynn, Choong-Shik Yoo
High Pressure Phases of Low-Z Molecular Solids: Prospects for Energy Storage

Peter Lazor, Ho-kwang Mao, Wendy L. Mao, Jinfu Shu, Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, Maddury Somayazulu, Russell J. Hemley
X-ray induced dissociation of NH3 at high pressure

Augusto Marcelli, Daniele Di Gioacchino, Paolo Tripodi, Mariangela Cestelli Guidi, Massimo Piccinini, Paolo Postorino and Daniele Di Castro
PRESS-MAG-O: a new facility to probe materials and phenomena under extreme conditions

panel: High-pressure studies of amorphous materials, liquids and melts.

Michael Lerche, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Guoyin Shen, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Annabeth Ryder and Kenneth S. Suslick
Synchrotron Moessbauer Spectroscopy of Amorphous Iron at Pressures up to 30 GPA

Room #4

panel: Inhomogeneous and Strongly Correlated Materials with Advanced Functions

Alex de Lozanne
Probe Studies of Manganite and Multiferroic Materials

Amlan Biswas, Tara Dhakal, Sung Hee Yun, Jacob Tosado
Colossal Piezoresistance and Electroresistance in manganites

Guangyong Xu, J. Wen, C. Stock, P. M. Gehring
Anomalous phonon behaviour induced by polar nano-regions in a relaxor ferroelectric system

F. Cordero, F. Craciun, and C. Galassi
Anelastic and dielectric study of the phase transformations of PbZr1-xTixO3 around the morphotropic phase-boundary

S.S. Saxena
TBA

Thursday April 19th, 2007

Room #1

panel: Mechanical properties under extreme conditions

Jiuhua Chen, Yunpeng Yang,Jianzhong Zhang, Yusheng Zhao
Strength of B6O at high pressure and temperature

Yanbin Wang, Norimasa Nishiyama, Mark Rivers, David Cookson
High-temperature, steady-state deformation of hcp-iron up to 19 GPa in the D-DIA

Wei Liu,Baosheng Li,Jiangzhong Zhang, and Yusheng Zhao
Simultaneous Ultrasonic and Synchrotron X-ray Studies on hcp and hexagonal Phases of Zirconium at High Pressure

W.Yang, W.Liu, B.C. Larson, G.E. Ice, H.P. Liermann, G. Shen
Deviatoric and dilatation strain measurements with x-ray micro-diffraction

Anil K. Singh, Hanns-Peter Liermann, Yuichi Akahama, Surendra K. Saxena
The pressure and grain-size dependence of strength of platinum to 330 GPa from the x-ray diffraction data

Isaac F. Silvera and Jacques Tempere
Pressure Distributions in Quasi-hydrostatic Pressure Media: a Finite Element Analysis

S. Merkel, H.R. Wenk, C. Tomé
Evaluation of stress in high pressure radial diffraction experiments: application to Co

panel: Ab initio simulations at extreme conditions

R.E. Cohen
THEORY OF MINERALS AT HIGH PRESSURE BEYOND BAND THEORY

panel: Mechanical properties under extreme conditions

Jon Eggert
Strength of Materials Determined by Laser Compression Experiments

William J Evans, Choon-Shik Yoo, Geun Woo Lee, Hyunchae Cynn, Magnus J Lipp, Ken Visbeck
The Dynamic Diamond Anvil Cell: A novel device for probing the dynamic response of materials at high pressure

Wendy L. Mao, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Alfred Baron, Caterina Tommaseo, Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Michael Hu, Paul Chow, Jinfu Shu, Russell J. Hemley, Dion L. Heinz7, and Ho-kwang Mao
Experimental determination of elasticity of iron at high pressure

Lowell Miyagi, Norimasa Nishiyama, Yanbin Wang, Atsushi Kubo, Don V. West, Robert J. Cava, Thomas S. Duffy, Hans -Rudolf Wenk
Texture development in the CaIrO3 post-perovskite phase deformed in the multi-anvil press up to 5 GPa and 1300 K

Michelle Weinberger, Jonathan Levine, Hsiu-Ying Chung, Richard Kaner, Abby Kavner, Sarah Tolbert
In situ studies of Osmium and transition metal diborides under high stress conditions

Room #2

panel: Light atoms and molecules

Stanimir Bonev
Bonding properties in dense hydrogen-rich fluids

I. Silvera
TBA

panel: Molecular systems under high compression

Alexander Goncharov
Simple Molecular Systems under High Pressure and Temperature

panel: Miscellaneous SMEC topics

Vladimir V. Shchennikov and Sergey V. Ovsyannikov
Sintered diamond anvil cell for investigation of transport properties under ultrahigh pressure up to 30 GPa

Room #3

panel: Extreme Materials Research

A.I.Ksenofontov, V.A.Klimanov, E.I.Kurbatova, V.L.Romodanov, S.A.Sobko, J.G.Smirnov, J.L.Regens
Synthesis of New Material Compositions with Special Properties under Impact - Dynamic Conditions

panel: Biology and biological materials at high pressures

Matthew O. Schrenk, Russell J. Hemley
Physiological adaptations of microorganisms to the environmental challenges of the deep biosphere

Isabelle Daniel, Aude Picard, Philippe Oger
In situ measurement of microorganisms metabolism under high hydrostatic pressure

Anurag Sharma
High pressure and temperature survival of microbes: insights into a multifaceted adaptation mechanisms

F. Ono, M. Saigusa, T. Uozumi, Y. Matsushima, H. Ikeda
Effect of high hydrostatic pressure on a life of a tiny animal, tardigrade

James Scott
Survival and adaption to kilobar pressure by microbial life.

Room #4

panel: Inhomogeneous and Strongly Correlated Materials with Advanced Functions

Emil S. Božin and Simon J.L. Billinge
Understanding the insulating phase in CMR manganites: Shortening of the Jahn-Teller long-bond across the phase diagram of La1-xCaxMnO3

Feng Ye, Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Songxue Chi, Pengcheng Dai, Yang Ren, Jeff Lynn, Roland Mathieu, Yoshio Kaneko, Yoshi Tokura
Evolution of charge/orbital and magnetic correlations in the single layer manganites Pr{1-x}Ca{1+x}MnO4 near half doping

S. Miyasaka, J. Fujioka, T. Yasue, Y. Yamasaki, Y. Okimoto, R. Kumai, T. Arima, and Y. Tokura
Orbital order and related phenomena in perovskite-type vanadium oxide

Jiandi Zhang
Magnons in Ferromagnetic Metallic Manganites

N. Kaurav, K. K. Choudhary and Dinesh Varshney
Analysis of anomalous optical response in the ferromagnetic metallic state of manganites

D. Di Castro, P. Postorino, P. Dore, E. Arcangeletti, D. Marrocchelli, R. Khasanov, Keller, D. D. Sarma
Pressure effects on the temperature dependent magnetization and Raman spectrum of ordered double perovskites

Steven D. Conradson, Juan Lezama Pacheco, Olivier Gourdon, Delphine Jm Gout, Francisco J. Espinosa-Faller, Ivan Bozovic
Signatures and Consequences of Heterogeneity in Complex Crystalline Materials

Toshimitsu Ito
Magnetic-field-induced phase transition in Mg-doped Haldane gap system Y2BaNi1-yMgyO5

S.Agrestini, M.R.Lees, C. Mazzoli, A. Bombardi
Magnetic frustration and correlation length in the 2D Ising triangular AF model system Ca3Co2O6

T. Mizokawa
Photo-induced phase transitions in strongly correlated electron systems

E. Liarokapis, P. Parisiades, D. Lampakis, N.D.Zhigadlo, J. Karpinski
Phase separation in Li and/or C doped MgB2

Annette Bussmann-Holder
Relaxor ferroelectrics and intrinsic inhomogeneity

Daniel R. Garcia and Alessandra Lanzara
The effect of chemical inhomogeneity on the band structure of bismuth-based copper oxide superconductors using ARPES

Posters:

Selva Vennila R, Lyci George, Vadym Drozd and S. K Saxena
In situ X-ray diffraction and Raman study on the phase transformation in LiAlH4 under high pressure – A Comparision

Selva Vennila R, A. Durigin, M. Merlini and S. K. Saxena
High pressure – high temperature study on TiH2 upto 823K

Vadym Drozd, Surendra Saxena, Andriy Durygin and Subrahmanyam V. Garimella
CHEMICAL REACTIONS FOR HYDROGEN STORAGE AND GENERATION

K. K. Choudhary, N. Kaurav and Dinesh Varshney
Explanation of thermoelectric power of MgB2 superconductors

Ravhi S Kumar and Andrew L. Cornelius
High pressure structural studies on Li3AlH6

P. Srepusharawoot, C. Moyses Araujo, A. Blomqvist, and Rajeev Ahuja
A comparative investigation of H2 interaction in Cu-, Cd- and Zn-based MOF-5: A density functional theory based study

Taras Palasyuk, Marek Tkacz, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Andriy Durygin, Surendra Saxena
Raman studies of REH3 under pressure

Luhong Wang, Haozhe Liu, John S. Tse, Jinfu Shu, Ho-kwang Mao
Experimental and first-principles calculation studies for several NIST x-ray powder diffraction standards under high pressure conditions

Emre Selvi, Resul Aksoy, Russell Knudson, Yanzhang Ma
High Pressure X-ray Diffraction Study of Tungsten Diselenide

Resul Aksoy, Emre Selvi, Yanzhang Ma
High pressure X-ray diffraction studies of Nickel Disulfide

L. Ehm, F.M. Michel, S.A. Antao, P.L. Lee, C.D. Martin, and J.B. Parise
Structural phase transition in nanocrystalline Mackinawite (FeS)

Resul Aksoy, Emre Selvi,Yanzhang Ma
X-ray diffraction study of Niobium Diselenide to 45.1 GPa

Chunyuan He, Chunxiao Gao, Yanzhang Ma
In-Situ Electrical Property Study of CdSe under High Pressure

Chunyuan He, Chunxiao Gao, Yanzhang Ma
Electrical Impedance spectrum study of CdS under high pressure

N. Kirova
Theory of space resolved properties of Charge Density Waves.

E. Holbig, L. Dubrovinsky, G. Steinle-Neumann, V. Prakapenka and V. Swamy
Compression Behavior of Zr-doped Nanoanatase

V.Efimov, E.Efimova, S.Molodtsov, D.Karpinsky, A.Kuzmin, V.Sikolenko, S.I.Tiutiunnikov, I.O.Troyanchuk, D.Vyalikh, E.Welter, D.Zajac
XAFS and Neutron diffraction study of Co3+/Co4+ spin states in the La1–xSrxCo1–x/2Nbx/2O3

V.Efimov, E.Efimova, D.Karpinsky, A.Kuzmin, V.Sikolenko, S.I.Tiutiunnikov, I.O.Troyanchuk, E.Welter, D.Zajac
Local and long range order change in the La1-xSr(Ba)xCoO3 and oxygen deficient La1-xSr(Ba)xCoO3-d

Ji Feng, Neil W. Ashcroft, Roald Hoffmann
Theoretical indications of structural and electronic peculiarities in “simple” intermetallic compounds under pressure

Artem R. Oganov, Yanming Ma, Jiuhua Chen, Yanzhang Ma, Colin W. Glass
Light elements under pressure: insights into unusual structures and bonding

M. Martinez-Canales and A. Bergara
A simplified ab-initio approach describing the anomalous melting curve of light alkalies

P. Rodriguez-Hernandez, J. Lopez-Solano, S. Radescu, A. Mujica and A. Munoz
Theoretical study of AWO4 compounds under pressure from ab initio calculations

Ichirou Takahashi, Masaki Hirayama, Akinobu Teramoto, Shigetoshi Sugawa1, and Tadahiro Ohmi
Technologies of Crystallization for Ferroelectric Sr2(Ta1-x,Nbx)2O7 Film Applied to One-Transistor-Type Ferroelectric Memory Devices

K. K. Choudhary, N. Kaurav, R. Kinge and Dinesh Varshney
High pressure structural phase transition in alkaline earth chalcogenides

ALVARO,M., CÁMARA, F., DOMENEGHETTI, M.C. & TAZZOLI, V.
P21/c <-> C2/c phase transition and kinetics of Fe2+-Mg order-disorder in Fe-poor P21/c pigeonite

M. Marqués, J. Contreras-García, M. Flórez, and J. M. Recio
Breakdown of a displacive conception in the zircon-reidite transformation

Alfredo Correa, Lorin Benedict, and Eric Schwegler [2]
First principles multiphase equation of state of Carbon and applications to hydrodynamics under extreme conditions

N. Kaurav, K. K. Choudhary, R. Kinge and Dinesh Varshney
Elastic properties of elastic properties of fluorite type oxides (CeO2, ThO2 and PoO2)

H.P. Liermann, W. Yang, S.V. Sinogeikin, G. Shen, H. Cynn, S. Merkel, H-R. Wenk, M. Somayazulu, P. Dera.
Measurement of mechanical properties of materials at high-pressure and temperatures in the diamond anvil cell.

Atsushi Kubo, Akira Yoneda
Simultaneous determination of mean pressure and differential stress based on numerical tensor analysis using axial x-ray diffraction data of MgO

Agnès Dewaele and Paul Loubeyre DIF/DPTA, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
Mechanical properties of tantalum under high pressure

K. E. Lipinska-Kalita, O. A. Hemmers, P. E. Kalita, G. Mariotto, Y. Ohki, T. Hartmann and L. Ma
Casting Solids on the Nanometer Scale: Development of New Functional Materials by Building Durable Nano-Architectures in Amorphous Matrices

L. ODwyer, C.E. Lesher, Y. Wang
High Pressure Viscosity of Naturally-Occurring Komatiite Liquids

Sarah J. Gaudio Charles E. Lesher Sabyasachi Sen Yanbin Wang
Densification and associated structural rearrangement of mantle melt analogue compositions: Synthesis of in situ and ex situ data

Simon M. Clark, Raymond L. Jones, Mark Jackson.b Mathew Barwick, Berwyn Varney.
High Pressure- temperature complex Impedance study of Li and Na fast ion glasses

Sergey V. Ovsyannikov, Vladimir V. Shchennikov, Ivan A. Komarovsky, and Yoshiya Uwatoko
Pressure-induced transition in a heavy fermion system YbPd2Si2

Saliha Ilican, Yasemin Caglar, Mujdat Caglar, Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu, Yücel Şahin, Deniz Hür
Effect of heat treatments on the physical properties of ZnO thin films by sol-gel spin coating method

Yasemin Caglar, Mujdat Caglar, Saliha Ilican
Dependence of optical properties on the film thickness of spray pyrolyzed transparent IZO thin films

Mujdat Caglar, Saliha Ilican, Yasemin Caglar, Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu
Influence of Al doping on the optical constants of ZnO thin films by spray pyrolysis method

MUNISH PURI, R.K BEDI
THIN FILMS OF ZINC PHTHALOCYANINE ( ZnPc) FOR OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES

Wenzhong Wu Yong Gao Feng Zheng W.Kinzy Jones
Development of semiconducting BST for extremely lower temperature (1000ºC) sintering and its positive temperature coefficient (PTC) characteristic

Chunxiao Gao, Yanzhang Ma, Yonghao Han, Ming Li, Guangtian Zou
In-Situ Conductivity Measurement of Matter under Extreme Conditions by Film Fabrication on Diamond Anvil Cell

Ravhi S. Kumar, Andrew L. Cornelius, Malcolm F. Nicol, Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, Eric D. Bauer and John L. Sarrao
Valences changes in YbCu2Si2 and YbAgCu4 studied by high pressure x-ray absorption and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering experiments

W. Abdul-Razzaq /West Virginia University And U. Lee / Army Research Laboratory
XPS Study of Desert Sands

Ako Chijioke
Infrared absorption of HD to 160 GPa

Ravhi S. Kumar, Andrew L. Cornelius, Malcolm F. Nicol, Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, Eric D. Bauer and John L. Sarrao
Valences changes in YbCu2Si2 and YbAgCu4 studied by high pressure x-ray absorption and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering experiments

Chunxiao Gao, Yanzhang Ma, Yonghao Han, Ming Li, Guangtian Zou
In-Situ Conductivity Measurement of Matter under Extreme Conditions by Film Fabrication on Diamond Anvil Cell

Eunja Kim, Ravhi Kumar, Philippe F. Weck, Andrew Cornelius, Malcolm Nicol, Sven Vogel, Jianzhong Zhang, Monika Hartl, Ashley C. Stowe, Luke Daemen, and Yuzheng Zhao
Pressure-induced structural transitions in NaBH4

Helene Couvy, C. David Martin and John Parise
Temperature dependence of post-perovskite rheology