SPring-8, the large synchrotron radiation facility

A joint research team consisting of Kei Hirose, an invited senior scientist (also a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology),  and Yoshiyuki Tatsumi, program director of the Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Yasuhiro Kato, President); Shigehiko Tateno, a specially appointed assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Kenichi Iga, President); Masaki Takata, a division head, and Yasuo Ohishi, a senior scientist of the Research & Utilization Division of Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (Tetsuhisa Shirakawa, President), and their colleagues succeeded in realizing the ultrahigh-pressure ultrahigh-temperature conditions at the earth's center (364 GPa, 5,500 °C) in a laboratory, for the first time in the world, using a laser-heated diamond anvil system.  This technique will enable, for the first time, the artificial synthesis of all the materials existing in the earth's interior using materials available on or near the earth's surface.