Microscope Laboratory

Researchers

Optical and cathodoluminescence microscopic analyses are conducted using a Nikon Eclipse E600 POL optical microscope and a Nikon Eclipse E600 cathodoluminescence microscope with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 digital camera and a spectrometer.

The microscope lab facility contains a Bruker Vertex 70 Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer and Hyperion 2000 microscope, that can be used for material identification in powder samples, or on thin sections at the 10 micrometer scale.