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Shocking Results from DACs

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LIVERMORE, Calif., July 14, 2010 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicists are using an ultrafast laser-based technique they dubbed “nanoshocks” to study shock behavior in tiny samples such as thin films or other systems with microscopic dimensions (a few tens of micrometers). In particular they have used the technique to shock materials under high static pressure in a diamond anvil cell (DAC). Using a DAC, which probes the behavior of materials under ultrahigh pressures (and which requires small samples), the team statically compressed a sample of argon up to 78,000 atmospheres of pressure...Read full article

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    Published: July 2010
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    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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