Research Interests

• Development and implementation of new diamond anvil cell technologies and diagnostics
• Ultrahigh static high-pressure experiments with toroidal diamond anvil cell (tDAC)
• Time resolved studies of dynamic compression of material in dynamic Diamond Anvil Cell (dDAC)
• High pressure, temperature behavior (EOS, phase diagram) of metals, alloys and molecular solids
• Micro-Raman spectroscopy and synchrotron x-ray diffraction and spectroscopy for in-situ diagnostics

Background

Dr. Zsolt Jenei is a research scientist, a physicist by training, in the High Pressure Physics group at LLNL. He started working at LLNL in 2002 as graduate student employee, accepted a postdoctoral position in 2009, and has worked as research staff since 2013.

Ph.D., Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2009

Licentiate of Philosophy, Physics Stockholm University, Sweden, 2004

M.S., Atomic Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, 2002

B.S., Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, 2001

1. Zs. Jenei et al., “New dynamic diamond anvil cells for tera-pascal per second fast compression x-ray diffraction experiments” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 90, 065114 (2019)
2. Zs. Jenei, E. F. O’Bannon, S. T. Weir, H. Cynn, M. J. Lipp, W. J. Evans, “Single crystal toroidal diamond anvils for high pressure experiments beyond 5 megabar,” Nature Communications (2018)
3. R. L. Stillwell, Zs. Jenei, S. T. Weir, Y. K. Vohra, J. R. Jeffries, Superconducting Bi2Te: Pressure-induced universality in the (Bi2)m(Bi2Te3)n series, Phys. Rev. B 93, 094511 (2016)
4. D. Tomasino, Zs. Jenei, W. J. Evans, C-S. Yoo, “Melting and phase transitions of nitrogen under high pressures and temperatures,” J. Chem. Phys. 140, 244510 (2014)
5. J-Y. Chen, C-S. Yoo, W. J. Evans, H. P. Liermann, H. Cynn, M. Kim, Zs. Jenei, “Solidification and fcc to metastable hcp phase transition in krypton under variable compression rates,” Phys. Rev. B 90, 144104 (2014)
6. Zs. Jenei, K. Visbeck, H. Cynn, W. J. Evans “High-temperature experiments using a resistively heated high-pressure membrane diamond anvil cell,” Rev. Sci. Instrum., 84, 095114 (2013)
7. Zs. Jenei, H.P. Liermann, H. Cynn, J.-H. K. Park, B. J. Baer, W. J. Evans, “Structural phase transition in vanadium at high pressure and high temperature: Influence of nonhydrostatic conditions,” Phys. Rev. B 83, 054101 (2011)