A High Frequency Hydrostatic Pressure Dielectricity Measuring System Based on Cubic Anvil Apparatus

By a self-made system based on a cubic anvil high-pressure apparatus and an Agilent 4294A accurate impedance analyzer, real time high frequency dielectricity measurement under hydrostatic pressure is realized by the standard four-wire method widely used in ambient pressure dielectric research. The sealing of liquid cell in solid pressure-transmission medium and multi signal lines out through gaskets including four micro-coaxial cables is achieved by the pre-formation of pyrophyllite cube together with gaskets. The testing fixture, 10 mm10 mm sample, pressure-temperature sensors and as many as 16 signal wires including 4 micro-coaxial cables with an outer diameters of 1.6 mm respectively can be contained simultaneously in a liquid testing cell with a volume of (1315) mm3. Four-wire impedance spectroscopy can be obtained by this system in a measurement range of room temperature to 300 ℃, ambient pressure to about 3 GPa hydrostatic pressure and testing frequency from 40 Hz to 5 MHz with an experiment error below 3%. The pressure induced ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition of a BaTiO3 single crystal is observed using this setting up.