EPMA, SEM with EBSD & EDS, μXRF as well as LA-ICP-MS (QQQ) and a suite of reflected and polarizing light microscopes are all available for use. The e-beam and mass-spectrometry facilities are housed and managed by the FiLTER lab at UBC Okanagan. Please contact me or the FiLTER lab if you have questions about capabilities and availability.

TESCAN Mira 3 XMU SEM 

Equipped with:
  • Oxford Instruments Symmetry S3 EBSD detector with forescatter array
  • Oxford Instruments Xmax EDS detector
  • Retractable and in-column BSE detector
  • SE detector

IXRF Atlas micro-XRF

Benchtop microXRF equipped with 2 x 70mm EDS detectors
Capabilities: 
  • Mapping elements from Na through U
  • Trace element mapping, point analyses, line-scans
  • Can generate full hyperspectral thin-section maps at 20 μm resolution 
  • Can scan samples (e.g., slabs, billets, pucks) with horizontal dimensions up to 20 x 20 cm 
  • Vacuum or atmospheric acquisition modes

Cameca SXFive FE-EPMA

Field Emission EPMA for Quantitative Analysis and X-Ray Mapping
  • 5 WDS detectors with array of large and small crystals
  • Cathodoluminescence detector
  • Capable of full standardized quantitative analyses of crystalline and glass phases
  • Trace element detection >20 ppm with blank correction and >100ppm without

Agilent 8900 Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS

2nd generation ICP-QQQ coupled with ESL Excimer laser
  • U-Pb geochronology: zircon, monazite, titanite, apatite, calcite
  • Rb-Sr geochronology: biotite, white mica, apatite
  • Lu-Hf geochronology: garnet
  • Trace element mapping and line-scans on most silicates and oxides