We present the design, test, and performance of a piston type pressure cell for low-temperature dielectric measurements up to 10 kbar with particular emphasis on the electrical feedthrough for four coaxial cables and four conventional copper wires. The coaxial cables provide proper shielding of the applied test signal; a commercial continuous flow cryostat allows us to minimize the total cable length enabling temperature and pressure-dependent dielectric spectroscopy measurements down to 8 K and up to 5 MHz. We performed open compensation measurements, i.e., background measurements of the response originating from the pressure setup without a sample, to obtain its high frequency characteristics. The stray capacitance of the pressure setup is determined as Cstray = 40 fF, making it possible to measure small single crystals with a weak dielectric response. The proper operation is verified by comparing measurements of a test sample in the pressure setup at ambient pressure and in a standard dielectric spectroscopy setup.

1.
K.
Zaman
,
High-Pressure Physics
(
Scitus Academics LLC
,
2017
).
2.
J.
Loveday
,
High-Pressure Physics
, Scottish Graduate Series (
Taylor & Francis
,
2012
).
3.
M.
Fujimoto
,
The Physics of Structural Phase Transitions
(
Springer
,
1997
).
4.
V.
Dobrosavljevic
,
N.
Trivedi
, and
J.
Valles
,
Conductor Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions
(
OUP
,
Oxford
,
2012
).
5.
C.
Poole
,
H.
Farach
,
R.
Creswick
, and
R.
Prozorov
,
Superconductivity
, Elsevier Insights (
Elsevier Science
,
2014
).
6.
P.
Gegenwart
,
Q.
Si
, and
F.
Steglich
,
Nat. Phys.
4
,
186
(
2008
).
7.
M.
Dressel
,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
23
,
293201
(
2011
).
8.
S.
Maekawa
,
T.
Tohyama
,
S.
Barnes
,
S.
Ishihara
,
W.
Koshibae
, and
G.
Khaliullin
,
Physics of Transition Metal Oxides
, Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences (
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
,
2013
).
9.
P. L.
Alireza
,
Y. T. C.
Ko
,
J.
Gillett
,
C. M.
Petrone
,
J. M.
Cole
,
G. G.
Lonzarich
, and
S. E.
Sebastian
,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
21
,
012208
(
2009
).
10.
P. L.
Alireza
,
F.
Nakamura
,
S. K.
Goh
,
Y.
Maeno
,
S.
Nakatsuji
,
Y. T. C.
Ko
,
M.
Sutherland
,
S.
Julian
, and
G. G.
Lonzarich
,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
22
,
052202
(
2010
).
11.
S. E.
Brown
,
P. M.
Chaikin
, and
M. J.
Naughton
, in
The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors
, edited by
A.
Lebed
(
Springer-Verlag
,
2010
), pp.
49
87
.
12.
T.
Furukawa
,
K.
Kobashi
,
Y.
Kurosaki
,
K.
Miyagawa
, and
K.
Kanoda
,
Nat. Comm.
9
,
307
(
2018
).
13.
M.
Abdel-Jawad
,
I.
Terasaki
,
T.
Sasaki
,
N.
Yoneyama
,
N.
Kobayashi
,
Y.
Uesu
, and
C.
Hotta
,
Phys. Rev. B
82
,
125119
(
2010
).
14.
M.
Pinterić
,
M.
Čulo
,
O.
Milat
,
M.
Basletić
,
B.
Korin-Hamzić
,
E.
Tafra
,
A.
Hamzić
,
T.
Ivek
,
T.
Peterseim
,
K.
Miyagawa
,
K.
Kanoda
,
J. A.
Schlueter
,
M.
Dressel
, and
S.
Tomić
,
Phys. Rev. B
90
,
195139
(
2014
).
15.
M.
Pinterić
,
T.
Ivek
,
M.
Čulo
,
O.
Milat
,
M.
Basletić
,
B.
Korin-Hamzić
,
E.
Tafra
,
A.
Hamzić
,
M.
Dressel
, and
S.
Tomić
,
Phys. B
460
,
202
(
2015
).
16.
M.
Dressel
,
Naturwissenschaften
94
,
527
(
2007
).
17.
F.
Nad
and
P.
Monceau
,
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
75
,
051005
(
2006
).
18.
G.
Grüner
,
Rev. Mod. Phys.
60
,
1129
(
1988
).
19.
20.
J.
Gonzalo
and
B.
Jiménez
,
Ferroelectricity: The Fundamentals Collection
(
Wiley
,
2008
).
21.
W.
Sherman
and
A.
Stadtmuller
,
Experimental Techniques in High-Pressure Research
(
John Wiley Sons Australia, Limited
,
1987
).
22.
M.
Eremets
,
High Pressure Experimental Methods
, Oxford Science Publications (
Oxford University Press
,
1996
).
23.
R.
Beyer
and
M.
Dressel
,
Rev. Sci. Instrum.
86
,
053904
(
2015
).
24.
G. P.
Johari
and
E.
Whalley
,
Faraday Symp. Chem. Soc.
6
,
23
(
1972
).
25.
M.
Paluch
,
C. M.
Roland
,
S.
Pawlus
,
J.
Zioło
, and
K. L.
Ngai
,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
91
,
115701
(
2003
).
26.
M.
Tarnacka
,
M.
Wikarek
,
S.
Pawlus
,
K.
Kaminski
, and
M.
Paluch
,
RSC Adv.
5
,
105934
(
2015
).
27.
A.
Sanz
,
H. W.
Hansen
,
B.
Jakobsen
,
I. H.
Pedersen
,
S.
Capaccioli
,
K.
Adrjanowicz
,
M.
Paluch
,
J.
Gonthier
,
B.
Frick
,
E.
Lelièvre-Berna
,
J.
Peters
, and
K.
Niss
,
Rev. Sci. Instrum.
89
,
023904
(
2018
).
28.
See https://www.unipress.waw.pl for Institut of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Science, ul. Sokolowska 29/37, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland.
29.
See www.elpsec.de for Rf subminiature cable MMK5001, el-spec GmbH, Lauterbachstr. 23C, D-82538 Geretsried-Gelting, Germany.
30.
Impedance Measurement Handbook
, 6th ed. (
Keysight Technologies
,
2009
).
31.
P.
Lunkenheimer
and
A.
Loidl
,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
27
,
373001
(
2015
).
32.
See https://www.arnotec.de for RG 178 B/U coaxial cable, manufactured by Habia Cable, cable configuration and distribution by arnotec GmbH, Dunantstrae 7, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
33.
S.
Elsässer
,
D.
Wu
,
M.
Dressel
, and
J. A.
Schlueter
,
Phys. Rev. B
86
,
155150
(
2012
).
34.
M.
Dressel
and
A.
Pustogow
, “
Electrodynamics of quantum spin liquids
,”
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
30
,
203001
(
2018
).
35.
R.
Rösslhuber
,
E.
Uykur
,
A.
Boehme
,
A.
Löhle
,
R.
Hübner
, and
M.
Dressel
, “
Pressure-dependent dielectric spectroscopy on the organic spin liquid κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3
” (unpublished).
You do not currently have access to this content.