title: Studying single nanocrystals under high pressure using an x-ray nanoprobe.
abstract: In this report, we demonstrate the feasibility of applying a 250-nm focused x-ray beam to study a single crystalline NbSe(3) nanobelt under high-pressure conditions in a diamond anvil cell. With such a small probe, we not only resolved the distribution and morphology of each individual nanobelt in the x-ray fluorescence maps but also obtained the diffraction patterns from individual crystalline nanobelts with thicknesses of less than 50 nm. Single crystalline diffraction measurements on NbSe(3) nanobelts were performed at pressures up to 20 GPa.
authors.affiliation: HPSynC, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA. lwang@ciw.edu
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Umesh
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Wenge
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Zhili
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Zhonghou
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Wendy L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Ho-kwang
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Mao