Museum für Naturkunde, Mineralogie, Leibniz Institut an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin
- Preparation laboratory for sample cutting and thin section production
- Processing laboratory for rock samples with rock crusher, different mills, centrifuge, ultrasonic cleaner, magnetic separator FRANTZ LB-1
- Optical microscopy laboratory with several binoculars and polarisation and reflection microscopes (OLYMPUS SZH-10, LEITZ DM RXP, ZEISS Axioskop), - microscopic imaging system Q-aWIN, 5 circle universal stage LEITZ
- Imaging analysis software package Q-WIN
- Electron microprobe JEOL JXA 8500F with four wavelengh dispersive spectrometers and energy dispersive spectrometer
- X-ray fluorescence spectrometer Bruker S8 Tiger
- X-ray diffraction instrument STOE & CIE STADI P
- 200 kV Transmission electron microscope PHILIPS CM 20 ATEM with TRACOR EDX system, and GATAN 600 DIF ion thinning instrument
- Raman spectrometer DILOR Typ LabRAM 010 with internal HeNe (632.8 nm) and external INNOVA Krypton 90K laser, scanning device
- Scanning electron microscope JEOL JSM 6300 & EDX
- Cathodoluminenscence (hot cathode) Lumic HC3-LM
Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- Laboratories for rock and mineral separation, thin section preparation, conventional geochemistry, and isotope geochemistry
- Optical laboratory (Zeiss microscopes with photo equipment, Medenbach spindel stage and crystal drilling tool,- digital imaging system SIS)
- The procurement of a new SEM with EDX, KL, and EBSD within the scheme “Antrag für Forschungsgeräte nach Art. 91 b GG” is currently under review.
- JEOL superprobe JXA-8900M WD/ED combined microanalyzer
- 2 thermo-ionization mass spectrometers: VG Sector 54 with 9 movable Faraday and one Daly collector; Finnigan Triton with nine movable Faraday collectors, four mics (miniaturized ion counting detectors), and one SEM - ICP-MS THERMO Element 2, equipped with a NEW WAVE UP 193nm High Energy Excimer laser ablation system
- 300 kV Transmission electron microscope JEOL 3010 with EDX
Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik Ernst-Mach Institut
EMI has 4 laboratories dedicated especially to the measurement of dynamic material properties and a high performance computing center. Thus, for all activities to be conducted at EMI the corresponding technical and scientific equipment is available, for example
- Hypervelocity accelerators (light-gas guns) and related standard equipment for diagnostics
- Static and dynamic test facilities for material characterization
- Velocity Interferometer (VISAR)
- High-Speed Cameras and illumination sources (Xenon flashes, pulsed lasers, etc.)
- Pressure diagnostics (commercial and own sensors)
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
- Servohydraulically controlled Loading Frame (MTS, USA), 4500 kN total capacity, stiffness 1010 N/m, with 200 MPa confining pressure chamber.
- Two independent pore fluid/gas pumps (Quizix, USA), able to apply up to 140MPa pore pressure to the rock sample during triaxial loading.
- P- and S- wave ultrasonic sensors (GFZ, Germany), used for ultrasonic velocities and acoustic emission measurements in the frequency range 0.1-2 MHz during sample loading.
- Acoustic Emission data acquisition system (Prökel, Germany), 12 channels, 10 MHz sampling rate, 16 bit amplitude resolution equipped with 6 Gb internal memory buffer.
Technische Universität München
- 8-channel transient recorder and PC-card based transient recorder for acoustic emission experiments
- Piezoelectric sensors with resonant and multi-resonant characteristic
- Servohydraulically controlled loading frame
- GSSI SIR-Radar equipment with 4 antennas
- Transient ultrasound equipment + software, magnetostrictive sender and accessories
- Network analyzer Advantest R3754A