Facilities (in progress)
Major Equipment
- Bristol-type Piston Cylinder
- High temperature Deltech with gaz mixing and vertical quench
- DoE Piston Cylinder
- High Temperature Chamber Furnace - up to 1600C
Other Equipment
- Petrographic microscope
- Muffle furnace
- Vacuum oven
- Isometh saw
- Minimet Polisher/Grinder
- Lathe (Wabeco D4000)
- Automatic grinder
- PUK5 arc welding + SM03 microscope
- A&D GR202 Analytical balance
- Ultrasonic cleaner
- Liquid-to-liquid recirculation system (Lytron LCS20)
Other ressources
Ressources in the G&G department or on campus used by MagMaX Lab members
- HD full thin section scan: Zeiss Axio Imager.M2m (PI: Dr. K. Ritterbush)
- Electron microprobe lab: SX50 and SX100
- LA-ICP-MS: Agilent 8000 (ICP-MS) equipped with a Photon Analyte Excite 193 nm wavelength (Laser) (PI: Dr. D. Fernandez)
- Scanning Electron Microscopes: NanoFab
Documentation
- Lab Guidelines for Undergrads -
- Thin section preparation SOP -
- Grain mounts SOP -
- Synthetic starting material preparation SOP -
