Other methods available at our institute

Equipment, facilities, and analytical methods available in-house

• Thin-section laboratory. Preparation of petrographic thin sections and doubly polished sections for fluid inclusion research. Selection of sectioning devices, including low-speed precision diamond saw (Buehler), band saw (Proxxon), diamond wire saw (Well)
• CS Analyzer CS580 A Helios (Eltra)
• Granulometric techniques
• ICP-OES spectrometer (HORIBA JOBIN-YVON Activa)
• Facilities for apatite fission track analysis (group of Bernhard Fügenschuh)

Equipment and analytical methods available at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrography:

• Fluid-inclusion studies. Linkham THMS600 heating-freezing stage mounted on the Olympus BX41 microscope
• Raman spectrometer (HORIBA JOBIN-YVON Labram-HR800)
• Electron microprobe (JEOL Superprobe 8100)
• Scanning electron microscope (JEOL JSM-6010LV)
• Several X-ray diffratometers