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  • Optical Properties of Fluid...
    McWilliams, R Stewart; Dalton, D Allen; Mahmood, Mohammad F; Goncharov, Alexander F

    Physical review letters, 06/2016, Letnik: 116, Številka: 25
    Journal Article

    We use fast transient transmission and emission spectroscopies in the pulse laser heated diamond anvil cell to probe the energy-dependent optical properties of hydrogen at pressures of 10-150 GPa and temperatures up to 6000 K. Hydrogen is absorptive at visible to near-infrared wavelengths above a threshold temperature that decreases from 3000 K at 18 GPa to 1700 K at 110 GPa. Transmission spectra at 2400 K and 141 GPa indicate that the absorptive hydrogen is semiconducting or semimetallic in character, definitively ruling out a first-order insulator-metal transition in the studied pressure range.