title: Application of an imaging plate to the large-volume press MAX80 at the Photon Factory.
abstract: An imaging plate was applied to the large-volume press MAX80 for quantitative in-situ X-ray diffraction. A combination of the two-dimensional detector with the uniform pressure and temperature environments of MAX80 and the wide energy range of synchrotron radiation resulted in high-quality diffraction data. A modified cell assembly with a disc-type heater was used to minimize extrinsic diffraction peaks from the surrounding materials. To demonstrate the high-quality data obtained from the imaging-plate system, the crystal structure of the high-pressure and high-temperature polymorph of the highly absorbing element bismuth (Bi IV) was determined.
authors.affiliation: Photon Factory, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, 1-10ho, Tsukuba 305, Japan.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kikegawa
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Shimomura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwasaki