CSEC and the School of Physics and Astronomy will host the 4th High-Pressure Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Summer School at the University of Edinburgh from Monday 6 July to Friday 10 July 2026. The local organising team is led by CSEC member Dominique Laniel. The five-day School introduces a novel method of single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) structure studies at extreme pressures in diamond anvil cells to early-career scientists (Masters and PhD students, postdocs) and established scientists working in the field of high-pressure research.
The recent methodological advancements in high-pressure SCXRD drastically extend its applications, previously mostly limited to ~20 GPa and individual single crystals, now reaching hundreds of GPa and temperatures of thousands of degrees on submicron-sized polycrystalline aggregates. An overview of the necessary fundamental theoretical and methodological principles, including diamond anvil cell preparation, experimental strategies, laser heating, introduction to the relevant software and SCXRD, will be covered through lectures accompanied by demonstrations, hands-on sessions and step-by-step tutorials. At the end of the School, participants are expected to be able to perform basic high-pressure SCXRD experiments, as well as data processing and interpretation.
Summer School website: https://indico.ph.ed.ac.uk/event/392/