FACILITIES

Sample Preparation Equipments

 

petrographic  Microscopes

 

METALLURGICAL

MICROSCOPES

 

STEREO-

MICROSCOPES

 

OTHER OPTICAL

MICROSCOPES

 

Electron Microscope

 

X-ray DiffractometeR

 

IMAGING

 

 


 

 Sample Preparation Equipments

Sectioning Machines:

  • MK Diamond's 14-in. bench top Masonry Saw (1)
  • Covington Engineering's floor model 20-in. Slab Saw (1)
  • Barranca Diamond's 10-in. Trim Saw (1)
  • 10-in. Tile Saws (2)
  • 6-in trim Saws (2)
  • Logitech's CS-10 Trim Saw (1)
  • Allied High Tech's "Techcut" (1)

Precision Sectioning Machines:

  • Buehler's "Isomet" Low Speed Saw (2)
  • Leco's Low Speed Saw (1)
  • Buehler's "Isomet 1000" Precision Saws (3)
  • Allied High Tech's "Techcut" Unit (1)

Lapping, Grinding, and Polishing Machines:

  • 18-in. diameter floor model horizontal lapping machine (1)
  • Lapmaster International's several 12-in. and 15-in. Model Lapping Machines with automated abrasive dispensing systems (4)
  • Allied High Tech's "TechPrep" Double-wheel Grinding/Polishing Machine with Head and sample holders for circular and rectangular samples (1)
  • Leco's "Spectrum 1000" Double-wheel Variable Speed Grinding Machine (1)
  • Buehler's "Ecomet V" Double-wheel Grinding Machine (1)
  • Buehler's Ecomet 3 variable speed Grinding Machine (1)
  • Buehler's "Minimet" and "Minimet 1000" Grinder/Polishers (3)
  • Buehler's "Ecomet" Grinder/Polisher (2)
  • Buehler's "Vibromet" and "Vibromet 1000" Vibratory Polisher (2)
  • Logitech's "PM2A" and "PS2000" Precision Grinding Machines with Polishing Jigs (2)
  • Ameritool's Grinding Machine (1)
  • Logitech's PM2A-WG2 and PS2000 Precision Automatic Polishing Machines (2)

Thin Sectioning Machines:

  • Buehler's "Isomet" Low Speed and Isomet 1000 Saws (3)
  • Buehler's "Petro-thin" thin sectioning Machines (2)
  • Logitech's "CS-10" Precision Sectioning Machine (1)
  • Microtec Engineering's "Microtrim" Thin Sectioning Machines (2)
  • Ingram-Ward's Thin-section Grinder and Saw (2)
  • Struers "Discoplan" Thin-sectioning Machine (1)
  • Logitech's "PM2A" and "PS2000" Precision Grinding Machines (2)
  • Buehler's "Petrovue" thin section viewers (3)
  • GemTool's "Polariscope" Units (2)

Encapsulation and Impregnation Units:

  • Several aluminum sample molds for preparing circular (25-40 mm diameter) and rectangular (25 by 45 and 46 by 72 mm size) urethane, EPDM, and silicone sample holders for encapsulation and impregnation
  • Struers "Epovac" Vacuum Impregnation Unit (1)
  • Buehler's Vacuum Impregnation Unit (1)
  • Custom-made Vacuum Impregnation Units (2)
  • VWR Vacuum Ovens (2)

Drying and Cleaning:

  • Hotplates, Drying Ovens, and Hair-driers
  • Several Ultrasonic Cleaners (4)
  • Water, alcohol, and acetone jets

Mounting Systems:

  • Buehler's "Epothin" and "Epoxide"
  • Palouse Petro Product's "Petropoxy 154"
  • Conservation Resource International's Epo-Tek Epoxy 301
  • Loctite 363
  • Blue and fluorescent dyes

Grinding and Polishing Abrasives:

  • Alumina and Silicon Carbide for coarse and fine grinding
  • Alumina, Deagglomerated Alumina, and Diamond for coarse and fine polishing
  • Water, oil, and glycol medium

PETROGRAPHIC MICROSCOPES

  • Antique Petrographic Microscopes by - Busch and Lomb, Winkel-Zeiss, Unitron, Lomo, Struers and Sons, Zeiss, Nikon, John Swift & Co., and many others
  • Nikon's Labophot 2-Pol and Optiphot 2-Pol (Reflected plus Transmitted-light)
  • Olympus' BH-2 and BX-40 Polarizing Microscopes (Reflected plus Transmitted-light)
  • Leitz Laborlux 12 Pol Petrographic Microscope
  • Leitz Orthoplan Transmitted and Epi-fluorescent Polarized Light Microscope
  • Carl Zeiss Standard Petrographic Microscopes (2)
  • Carl Zeiss Universal Polarizing Microscopes (2)
  • Meiji DM5000 Polarizing Microscope
  • Radical Instrument's Polarizing Microscope (Reflected plus Transmitted-light)
  • Leitz Projection Microscope
  • Polavision Projection Polarizing Microscope
  • XY-P Trinocular Polarizing Microscope

METALLURGICAL MICROSCOPES

  • Olympus BHMJL Metallurgical Microscope
  • Leitz's Metalloplan (Reflected plus Transmitted-light) Microscope
  • Leitz's Ergolux Microscope
  • Radical Instrument's Metallurgical Microscope
  • Zeiss Metallurgical Microscope

STEREO MICROSCOPES

  • Nikon's SMZ-10A, SM800, SZ-2T Stereomicroscopes
  • Olympus SZH and SZX12 Research-grade Stereomicroscopes
  • Busch and Lomb/Leica SZ-7 (2) Stereozoom Microscope
  • Fisher Scientific's Stereomaster Microscope

OTHER OPTICAL MICROSCOPES

  • Nikon's Microphot FX Phase Contrast and DIC Microscope
  • Zeiss DIC Microscope

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE

  • Cambridge CamScan Series II Scanning Electron Microscope with Backscatter and Secondary Electron Detectors and 4Pi Image Analysis and EDS Elemental Analysis

X-RAY DIFFRACTOMETER

  • Siemen's D5000 X-ray diffractometer (theta/two theta design)
  • MDI's JADE, Datascan, and Search/Match Software
  • MDI's "Mineral" and ICDD PDF-2 Mineral database
  • McCrone Micronizing Mill for XRD Sample Preparation

X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER

  • Spectra QuanX II Benchtop EDXRF with latest Analytical Software
  • Fusion apparatus for preparation of fused discs

IMAGING AND PHOTOMICROGRAPHY

  • Nikon Coolpix 990, 995, and 4500 Digital Cameras
  • Diagnostic Instruments' Spot Digital Cameras with Image Analysis Software
  • DVC Digital Cameras with Image Analyses Software
  • Olympus' ALTRA20 Digital Cameras with Image Analyses Software (3)
  • Several latest model USB-2 type, 3 to 5 MP digital cameras with advanced image analysis software
  • Panasonic Color CCD Cameras with Epix, Inc. Image Acquisition boards and Image Analysis Software
  • Media Cybernatics "ImagePro Plus" Image Analysis Software