Facilities Overview

Electron Beam Instrumentation:

The UCSB electron-beam facility consists of:

• • Cameca SX-100 electron microprobe with a CeB6 filament, an EDS detector, a CL detector, and 5 WDS detectors. Fully automated with Probe Software, Inc. Probe for EPMA.

  • FEI Quanta 400f field-emission, environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) with an EBSD detector, BSE detector, SE detector, EDS detector, and a CL detector. Rapid sample navigation, imaging and annotion using fully automated Probe Software, Inc. PictureSnapApp.

  • Sample prep facilities including: Precision slicing; Micro Mill; Vacuum impregnation and mounting; Grinding and Polishing;  AU/Pd sputter coater; Turbo-pumped Carbon evaporator.  

Associated Instrumentation:

The facility is supported by extensive associated Earth-Science instrumentation, including:

• Agilent 7700x Quadrupole inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer.

• Nu Instruments Plasma HR multi-collector ICP with twelve Faraday cups and four low-mass ion counters.

• Nu Instruments Plasma 3D multi-collector ICP with 16 Faraday cups, 5 low-mass and one high-mass Daly Detectors.

• Cetac/Photon Machines 193 nm excimer G1 laser with HelEx cell.

• Cetac/Photon Machines 193 nm excimer Analyte laser with HelEx cell.

• Thermo Fisher Triton thermal ionization mass spectrometer.

• Class 100 Clean Room suite.

• Petrographic microscopes, cameras, and thinsection scanning equipment.

• Rock crushing and mineral separation facilities.

See also: Laser-Ablation Split-Stream Petrochronology