Rd. Markwell et Is. Butler, ON THE USE OF DIAMOND AS A PRESSURE CALIBRANT FOR NEAR-INFRARED FT-RAMAN MICROSPECTROSCOPY AT HIGH-PRESSURES, Canadian journal of chemistry, 73(7), 1995, pp. 1019-1022
The pressure-induced shift of the Raman-active t(2g) phonon mode of th
e diamond windows in a commercial diamond-anvil cell, located at 1332.
5 cm(-1) at ambient pressure, can be used as an in situ calibrant for
near-IR FT-Raman microspectroscopy at high pressures. The measured pre
ssures are considered to be accurate to within +/-2 kbar throughout th
e 4-45 kbar range for which the associated pressure (P, kbar) vs. wave
number (nu, cm(-1)) relationship is P = 6.66 nu - 1335.9.