Publications

The Eras of Stony Brook High Pressure Ultrasonics
Publications in chronological order:
1988

Rigden, I. Jackson, H. Niesler, A. E. Ringwood, and R. C. Liebermann, Pressure dependence of elastic wave velocities for Mg2GeO4 spinel to 3 Gpa, Geophys. Res. Letters, 15, 605-608, 1988.

1990

Gwanmesia, G., R. C. Liebermann, and F. Guyot, Hot-pressing and characterization of polycrystals of beta-Mg2SiO4 for acoustic velocity measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 1331-1334, 1990.

Gwanmesia, G. D., S. Rigden, I. Jackson, and R. C. Liebermann, Pressure dependence of elastic wave velocity for ?-Mg2SiO4 and the composition of the Earth's mantle, Science, 250, 794-797, 1990.

1991

Rigden, Sally, M., G. D. Gwanmesia, J. D. FitzGerald, I. Jackson and R. C. Liebermann, Spinel elasticity and seismic structure of the transition zone of the mantle, Nature, 354, 143-145, 1991.

1992

Gwanmesia, G. D., and R. C. Liebermann, Polycrystals of high-pressure phases of mantle minerals: Hot-pressing and characterization of physical properties, in High Pressure Research: Applications to Earth and Planetary Sciences, ed. by Y. Syono and M. H. Manghnani, pp 117-135, Terra Scientific Publishing Co., Tokyo/American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C., 1992.

Rigden, S. M., G. Gwanmesia, I. Jackson, and R. C. Liebermann, Pressure dependence of elasticity of high-pressure Mg2SiO4 polymorphs and constraints on the composition of the transition zone of the Earth's mantle, in High Pressure Research: Applications to Earth and Planetary Sciences, ed. by Y. Syono and M. H. Manghnani, pp 167-182, Terra Scientific Publishing Co., Tokyo/American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C., 1992..

1993

Gwanmesia, G.D., B. Li and R. C. Liebermann, Hot pressing of polycrystals of high pressure phases of mantle minerals in mulit anvil apparatus, PAGEOPH, 141, 467-484, 1993.

1994

Rigden, S. M, G. D. Gwanmesia and R. C. Liebermann, Elastic wave velocities of a pyrope-majorite garnet to 3 GPa, Phys. Earth Planet Interiors, 84, 35-44, 1994.

1996

Li, Baosheng, Sally M. Rigden, and Robert C. Liebermann. "Elasticity of stishovite at high pressure." Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 96 113-127, 1996.

Li, B., I. Jackson, T. Gasparik and R. C. Liebermann, Elastic wave velocity measurement in multi-anvil apparatus to 110 GPa using ultrasonic interferometry, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 98, 79-91, 1996.

Li, B., G. D. Gwanmesia and R. C. Liebermann, Sound velocities of olivine and beta polymorphs of Mg2SiO4, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 2259-2262, 1996.

Chen, G., B. Li and R. C. Liebermann, Selected elastic moduli of single crystal olivines from ultrasonic experiments to mantle pressures, Science, 272, 979-980, 1996.

1998

Li, B., G. Chen, G. D. Gwanmesia and R. C. Liebermann, Sound velocity measurements at mantle transition zone conditions of pressure and temperature using ultrasonic interferometry in a multi-anvil apparatus, in Properties of Earth & Planetary Materials at High Pressure & Temperature, edited by M. H. Manghnani, Y. Syono and T. Yagi, 41-61,1998.

Flesch, L. C., B. Li and R. C. Liebermann, Sound velocities inpolycrystalline MgSiO3-orthopyroxene to 10 GPa at room temperature, Am. Mineralogist, 83, 444-450, 1998.

Sinelnikov, Y.D., G. Chen, and R.C. Liebermann, Elasticity of CaTiO3-CaSiO3 perovskites, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 515-521, 1998.

Liebermann, R.C., G. Chen, B. Li, G.D. Gwanmesia, J. Chen, M.T. Vaughan, and D.J. Weidner, Sound Velocity Measurements in Oxides and Silicates at Simultaneous High Pressures and Temperatures using Ultrasonic Techniques in Multi-Anvil Apparatus in Conjunction with Synchrotron X-radiation Determination of Equation of State, in The Review of High Pressure Science & Technology, Vol. 7, 75-78, 1998.

Chen, G., R.C. Liebermann, and D.J. Weidner, Elasticity of Single Crystal MgO to 8 Gigapascals and 1600 Kelvin, Science, 280, 1913-1916, 1998.

Li, B., R.C. Liebermann, and D.J. Weidner, Elastic Moduli of Wadsleyite (?-Mg2SiO4) 7 GPa and 873 Kelvin, Science, 291, 675-677, 1998.

Sinelnikov, Y.D., G. Chen, D.R. Neuville, and R.C. Liebermann, Ultrasonic shear velocities of MgSiO3-perovskite at high pressure and temperature and lower mantle composition, Science, 281, 677-679, 1998.

Gwanmesia, G. D., G. Chen, and R. C. Liebermann, Sound velocities in (MgSiO3)-majorite garnet to 8 GPa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 4553-4556, 1998.

Liebermann, R. C., and B. Li, Elasticity at high pressures and temperatures, Ch. 15, pp. 459-492, Reviews of Mineralogy, Vol. 37, ed. by R. J. Hemley, Mineralogical Society of America, 1998.

Parise, J.B., D.J. Weidner, J. Chen, R.C. Liebermann, and G. Chen, In situ studies of the properties of materials under high pressure and temperature conditions using multi-anvil apparatus and synchrotron x-rays, Annual Reviews of Materials Science, 28, 349-374, 1998

1999

Chen, G., J.A. Cooke, Jr., G.D. Gwanmesia, and R.C. Liebermann, Elastic Wave Velocities of Mg3Al2Si3O12-Pyrope Garnet to 10 GPa, Am. Mineralogist, 84, 384-388, 1999.

2000

Kung, J., S. Rigden, and G. Gwanmesia, Elasticity of ScAlO3 at high pressure, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 118, 65-75, 2000.

Kung, J., S. M. Rigden, and I. Jackson, Silicate perovskite analogue ScAlO3: temperature dependence of elastic moduli, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 120, 299-314, 2000.

Liebermann, R. C., Elasticity of mantle minerals: Experimental studies, Ch. 7 in AGU Monograph on "Earth's Deep Interior: Mineral Physics and Tomography from the Atomic to the Global Scale, ed. by S. Karato, , Geophysical Monograph 117, pp. 181-199, 2000.

Decremps, F. B. Li, and R. C. Liebermann, Single-crystal elasticity of ZnO at high pressure, Proceedings of AIRAPT Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 1999. Vol. 2, pp. 810-813, in Science and Technology and High Pressure, edited by M. H. Manghnani, W. J. Nellis, and M. F. Nicol, 2 volumes, 1117 pages, 2000.

Gwanmesia, G. D., J. Liu, G. Chen, S. Kesson, S. M. Rigden, and R. C. Liebermann, Elasticity of the pyrope (Mg3Al2Si3O12)-majorite (MgSiO3) garnets solid solution, Phys. Chem. Minerals, 27, 445-452, 2000

Li, B., and R. C. Liebermann, Sound velocities of wadsleyite ß-(Mg0.88Fe0.12)2SiO4 to 10 GPa, Am. Mineralogist, 85, 292-295, 2000.

Liu, J., G. Chen, G. D. Gwanmesia, and R. C. Liebermann, Elastic wave velocities of pyrope-majorite garnets (Py62Mj38 and Py50Mj50) to 9 GPa, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 120, 153-163, 2000.

Decremps, F., J. Zhang, and R. C. Liebermann, New phase boundary and high pressure thermoelasticity of ZnO, Europhysics Letters, 51, 268-274 , 2000.

2001

Decremps, F. J. Zhang, B. Li, and R. C. Liebermann, Pressure-induced softening of shear modes in ZnO, Phys. Rev. B, 63, 224105, 2001.

Li, B., R. C. Liebermann, and D. J. Weidner, P-V-VP-VS-T measurements on wadsleyite to 7 GPa and 873 K: Implications for the 410-km seismic discontinuity, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 30,575-30,591, 2001.

2002

Li, B., K. Chen, J. Kung, R. C. Liebermann, and D. J. Weidner, Sound velocity measurement using transfer function method, Proceedings of AIRAPT Conference, Beijing, July 2001, J. Physics Condensed Matter, 14, 11337-11342, 2002.

Kung, J., B. Li, D. J. Weidner, J. Zhang and R. C. Liebermann, Elasticity of (Mg 0.83 Fe 0.17)O ferropericlase at high pressure: Ultrasonic measurements in conjunction with X-radiation techniques, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 203, 557-566, 2002.

2003

Li, B., Compressional and shear wave velocity of Ringwoodite gamma-Mg2SiO4 to 12 GPa, American Mineralogist, 88, 1312-1317

Li, B., M.T. Vaughan, and D.J. Weidner, Direct length measurements using X-radiography for the determination of acoustic velocities at high pressure and tempeture, Rev. Sci. Instrum., submitted for publication, September, 2002.

2004

Darling, K.L., G.D. Gwanmesia, J. Kung, B. Li, and R.C. Liebermann, Ultrasonic measurements of the sound velocities in polycrystalline San Carlos olivine in multi-anvil, high-pressure apparatus, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 143-144, 19-31, 2004.

Li, B., J. Kung, and R.C. Liebermann, Modern techniques in measuring elasticity of Earth materials at high pressure and high temperature using ultrasonics in conjunction with synchrotron X-radiation, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 143-144, 559-574, 2004.

Sinelnikov, Y.D., G. Chen, and R.C. Liebermann, Dual mode ultrasonic interferometry in multi-anvil high-pressure apparatus using single crystal olivine as the pressure standard, International Journal of High Pressure Research, 24, 183-191, 2004.

Kung, J., B. Li, T. Uchida, Y. Wang, D. Neuville, and R. C. Liebermann, In situ measurements of sound velocities and densities across the orthopyroxene->high-pressure clinopyroxene transition in MgSiO3 at high pressure, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 147, 27-44, 2004.

2005

Kung, J., B. Li, T. Uchida, and Y. Wang, In-situ elasticity measurement for the unquenchable high?pressure clinopyroxene phase: Implication for the upper mantle, Geophys. Res. Letters, 32, L01307, 2005.

Li, B., J. Kung, T. Uchida, and Y. Wang, Pressure calibration to 20 GPa by simultaneous use of ultrasonic and x-ray techniques, J. Appl. Phys., 98, 013521, 2005.

Li, B., J. Kung, T. Uchida, and Y. Wang, Simultaneous equation of state, pressure calibration and sound velocity measurements to lower mantle pressures using multi-anvil apparatus, pp. 49-66, in Frontiers in High Pressure Research: Geophysical Applications, edited by J. Chen, Y. Wang, T. Duffy, G. Shen and L. Dobrzhinetskaya, Elsevier Publications, New York, 2005.

Liu, W., J. Kung, and B. Li, Elasticity of San Carlos olivine to 8 GPa and 1073K, Geophys. Res. Letters, 32, L16301, 2005.

Li, B., and J. Zhang, Pressure and temperature dependence of elastic wave velocity of MgSiO3 perovskite and the composition of the lower mantle, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 151, 143-154, 2005.

Sondergeld, P., B. Li, J. Schreuer, and M. A. Carpenter, Discontinuous evolution of single crystal elastic constants as a function of pressure through the C2/c <-> P21/c phase transition in spodumene, LiAlSi2O6, J. Geophys. Res., submitted for publication, July 2005.

Pantea, C. D. G. Rickel, A. Migliori, R. G. Leisure, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao, S. El-Khatib, and B.Li, Digital ultrasonic pulse-echo overlap system and algorithm for unambiguous determination of pulse transit time, Rev. Sci. Instr., 76, 114902, 2005.

2006

Gwanmesia, G. D., J. Zhang, K. Darling, J. Kung, B. Li, L. Wang, D. Neuville, and R. C. Liebermann, Elasticity of polycrystalline pyrope (Mg3Al2Si3O12) to 9 GPa and 1000~C, Phys, Earth Planet. Interiors, 155, 179-190, 2006.

Kung, J., B. Li, and R. C. Liebermann, Ultrasonic observations of elasticity changes across phase transformations in Mg SiO3 pyroxenes, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 67, 2051-2055, 2006.

Li, B., K. Woody, and J. Kung, Elasticity of MgO to 11 GPa with an independent absolute pressure scale: Implications for pressure calibration, J. Geophys. Res. 111, B11206, doi:10,1029/2005JB004251, 2006.

Liu, W., and B. Li, Thermal equation of state of (Mg0.9Fe0.1)2SiO4 olivine, Phys, Earth Planet. Interiors, 157, 188-195, 2006

Carpenter, M. A., P. Sondergeld, B. Li, J. W. Walsh, J. Schreuer, T. W. Darling and R. C. Liebermann, Structural evolution, strain and elasticity of perovskites at high pressures and temperatures, Plenary Lecture at IMA Meeting in Kobe, Japan, July 2006, , J. Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 101, 95-109, 2006.

Higo, Y., T. Inoue, B. Li, T. Irifune and R. C. Liebermann, The effect of iron on the elastic properties of ringwoodite at high pressure, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 159, 276-285, 2006.

2007

Liu, W., and B. Li, Compressional and shear-wave velocities of the polycrystalline CaGeO3 perovskite to 10 GPa, Phys. Rev B, 75, 024107, 2007.

Gwanmesia, G. D., I. Jackson, and R. C. Liebermann, In search of the mixed derivative ?2M/?P?T (M = G, K): joint analysis of ultrasonic data for polycrystalline pyrope from gas- and solid-medium apparatus, Phys. Chem. Minerals, DOI 10.1007/s00269-006-0130-x, 2007.

Carpenter, M. A., B. Li, R. C. Liebermann, Elastic anomalies accompanying phase transitions in (Ca, Sr)TiO3 perovskites III: Experimental investigation of polycrystalline samples, Am. Mineralogist, 92, 344-355, 2007.

Antao, S. M., Ian Jackson, Baosheng Li, Jennifer Kung, Jiuhua Chen, Ishmael Hassan, Robert C. Liebermann, and John B. Parise, High-temperature elasticity of magnesioeferrite spinel, Phys. Chem. Minerals, DOI 10.1007/s00269-007-0152-z, 2007

Li, B., and R. C. Liebermann, Indoor seismology by probing the Earth's interior by using sound velocity measurements at high pressures and temperatures, Proc. National Acad. Sci., 104, 9145-9150, 2007

Liu, W., B. Li, L. Wang, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao. Elasticity of omega-phase zirconium. Physical Review B, 2007, 76, 144107.

Liu, W., J. Kung, L. Wang, B. Li. Thermal equation of state of CaGeO3 perovskite. American Mineralogist, 2007 (accepted).

Liu, W., J. Kung, B. Li, N. Nishiyama, Y. Wang. Elasticity of (Mg0.87Fe0.13)2SiO4 wadsleyite to 12 GPa and 1073 K. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2007 (submitted).

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