Facilities

The Lille High Pressure Laboratory is located in the building of the Institut Chevreul, on the Cité Scientifique campus of the Université de Lille. The laboratory holds a range of instruments for the synthesis and the caracterisation of centimeter-size materials up to 2 GPa and 2200°C, millimeter size samples up to 20 GPa and 2200°C, and sub-millimeter-size at pressures over 200 GPa and lies at the core of the HotCores project.

The instruments of the high pressure laboratory include

• a piston-cylinder press for pressures up to  2.2 GPa and temperatures of 2200°C,
• a ropec device for torsion deformation experiments at high pressure and high temperature,
• a multi-anvil press to reach pressures on the order of 20 GPa and temperatures of 2200°C,
• diamond anvil cells for pressures above 200 GPa,

and dedicated laboratory spaces

• large volume experiments preparation room,
• diamond anvil cell preparation room,
• lasers and spectroscopy room.