A Combinatory Package for Diamond Anvil Cell Experiments

In this work, we introduce the Architecture Tech for High-Pressure Experiments Net Assembly (ATHENA) package based on diamond anvil cells, combining both the deposition of specimens as well as the detection of probes on anvils layer by layer. The specimens are typically ~1 μm in thickness and very hard to manipulate with traditional hand skills. ATHENA represents an all-in-one package by accurately synergizing chip-like networks prepared using magnetic sputtering methods and guaranteeing well-designed dimensions, positions and perfect electric contacts. We apply ATHENA successfully to the study of lanthanum metal above 60 GPa, showing very sharp pressure-enhanced superconductivity and parabolic critical temperature (Tc) evolution as a function of pressure with pressure-enhanced itinerant behavior at normal state.

Rapid Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanorods on a Magnetron Sputtered Thick ZnO Seed Layer

In this work, we report rapid hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanorods on a magnetron sputtered thick ZnO seed layer. The ZnO seed layer on the glass substrarte is monocrystalline and formed by 600 °C annealing for 1 hour after magnetic sputtering. The morphology of the ZnO grain in the ZnO seed layer plays a critical role in the growing of the ZnO nanorods, and the slant ZnO grain results in the slant ZnO nanorod and connected ZnO nonrods. It is found that the average growth of the ZnO nanorods is ~75 nm/minute. The rapid grow rate may be owing to the monocrystallie and the pure water solution of the growth solution.