Electrostatic levitators have been around for more than 30 years and have become mature
tools for the material science community. Originally developed as positioners for materials …

Aerodynamic levitation is an effective way to suspend samples which can be heated with CO
2 lasers. The advantages of this containerless technique are the simplicity and compactness …

A model to perform coarse grained molecular dynamics simulations of room temperature
ionic liquids of the family 1-n-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate has been …

The structure of liquid alumina at a temperature∼ 2400 K near its melting point was
measured using neutron and high-energy x-ray diffraction by employing containerless …

Liquid Al2O3 has been supercooled more than 500 K below its melting point (T m= 2,327 K)
using aerodynamic levitation and laser heating techniques. High energy synchrotron x-ray …

The development of novel contactless aerodynamic laser heated levitation techniques is
reported that enable thermophysical properties of refractory liquids to be measured in situin …

Laser-heated melts based on the 43CaO–57Fe2O3− x eutectic, close to the calcium ferrite
(CF) composition, were measured with high-energy X-ray diffraction using aerodynamic …

We present a compact electrostatic levitator as a sample environment for high quality
neutron scattering experiments on melts. By this containerless approach we are able to …

In the present work the structural properties of low silica content calcium aluminosilicate
melts with concentration ratio CaO/Al 2 O 3= 1 are investigated in the liquid and …

We performed laser-heated diamond anvil cell experiments combined with state-of-the-art
electron microanalysis (focused ion beam and aberration-corrected transmission electron …