Geochemical and mineralogical laboratories
The mineralogical and geochemical laboratories of HelLabs focous on the in-situ and whole rock compositional variability of solid Earth materials.
Electron microprobe laboratory - NEW EPMA probe (currently being installed, operational spring 2023)
- Electron microprobe JEOL JXA-iSP100 Superprobe with LaB6 emitter, 5 WDS detectors and SDD EDS detector,
The Electron probe microanalyzer or "microprobe" is designed for non-destructive micrometer-sized spot quantitative chemical analysis from polished mineral sample surfaces.
- Scanning Electron Microscope JEOL 5900 with SDD EDS detector and CT unit, upgraded with SAMx hardware and XMAs/IDFix/Diss5 analytical software
Contact: Laboratory Engineer Katie Doig
X-ray Laboratory
- XRD Panalytical X’Pert3 Powder, X-ray powder diffractometer
- XRD software: Malvern Panalytical HighScore Plus 4.8: Phase identification, quantitative phase analysis, cluster analysis, etc.
- TOPAS-Academic V6: General non-linear least squares system driven by a scripting language; quantitative phase analysis, crystallographic analysis, etc.
- ICDD PDF4 Minerals reference database
- XRF Panalytical Axios mAX 4 kW, X-ray fluorescence wavelength dispersive spectrometer, measures elemental composition of rock powder using fused glass beads.
Contact information: Laboratory Engineer Katie Doig
LA-ICP-MS laboratory
Contact: Prof. Christoph Beier
Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometer and metal-free clean room facility to be installed end of 2023/beginning of 2024
Contact: Prof. Christoph Beier